Steven Spielberg in der Vanity Fair 02/08:
You went through a number of scripts.
I did.
People have read about Frank Darabont. Is it true you liked his script?
Very much. I very much liked Frank’s script.
Was it set in the 40s?
It was set in the 50s.
With latter-day Nazis coming at Indiana Jones?
Yes. And I quite liked Frank’s script, but George and I had a disagreement over it, and George and I have always agreed to agree. So when we take each other’s temperatures, if I really am passionate about something, George will give in to me, and if George is really passionate about something, I’ll pretty much go his way. And in this case George was passionate that this was not the story he wanted to tell at this point in the Indiana Jones saga. And I think it’s a wonderful script.
Is that leaving room open for another one?
Oh, I don’t know. I haven’t even thought about that. I’m still in the cutting room. I can’t even think beyond the next cut.
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So when you met George Lucas, did you go out for a beer?
No, it wasn’t until a couple of years later that we became friends, because some writing friends of mine, Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, were very close to George, and they put us together a second time, and that’s when George and I became fast friends.
Also hat Hal nicht gelogen, als er meinte, er sei für die Freundschaft von Spielberg und Lucas verantwortlich.
Quelle: vanityfair.com
