Indiana Jones survives an atom explosion the way heroes should - in a fridge. Picture: Paramount Pictures Source: Supplied
- Blames George Lucas for everything else
- "I didn't want aliens or inter-dimensional beings"
- Says fourth Jurassic Park is in the works
- Dress like angry�Lisbeth, look cute in bars
INDIANA Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't very good.
A film about cross-dimensional crystal beings bestowing their knowledge on the world before disappearing into the "space between spaces" was never going to win over the fans.
We all know that but who should we blame?
Steven Spielberg says you should aim your bullwhip at George Lucas.
Here's what he told Empire movie magazine while out spruiking his lastest flick, The Adventures of Tintin:
"I sympathise with people who didn't like the MacGuffin because I never liked the MacGuffin. George and I had big arguments about the MacGuffin.
"I didn't want these things to be either aliens or inter-dimensional beings. But I am loyal to my best friend. When he writes a story he believes in - even if I don't believe in it - I'm going to shoot the movie the way George envisaged it.
"I'll add my own touches, I'll bring my own cast in, I'll shoot the way I want to shoot it, but I will always defer to George as the storyteller of the Indy series. I will never fight him on that."
As for the scene where Indy hides from a nuclear blast inside a fridge, Spielberg says: "Blame me. Don't blame George. That was my silly idea. People stopped saying 'jump the shark'. They now say, 'nuked the fridge'. I'm proud of that. I'm glad I was able to bring that into popular culture."
He adds that he's working on a fourth Jurassic Park - "The screenplay is being written right now by Mark Protosevich. I'm hoping that will come out in the next couple of years. We have a good story. We have a better story for four than we had for three..." - but that a fifth Indiana Jones is up to Lucas.
"You have to ask George Lucas. George is in charge of breaking the stories. He's done it on all four movies. Whether I like the stories or not, George has broken all the stories. He is working on Indy V. We haven't gone to screenplay yet, but he's working on the story. I'll leave it to George to come up with a good story."
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