Last Thursday, Anne Thompson of Variety wrote the following in an item describing her visit the previous week to Lucasfilm headquarters at the Presidio in San Francisco:
At the party I got a kick out of watching Lucas, Robin Williams, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Staunton and Brad Bird whooping it up and making each other laugh. (Coppola was on a wine tour.) “I’m a big proponent of regional filmmaking,” Lucas told me. (He told me that for the first time when I interviewed him for Film Comment in 1981 for Raiders of the Lost Ark.) He’s still chasing Sean Connery, by the way, for Indy 4–just sent him a new script.
Then, on Friday, Reuters passed on a few things that George Lucas said the night before at the San Francisco Film Festival:
In a brief interview, he said veteran actor Sean Connery had yet to agree to reprise his role as Indiana Jones’ father.
“We have a script with him in it,” he said. “If he doesn’t do it, we’ll do a quick rewrite.”
Sounds like Professor Henry Jones Senior wouldn’t be all that big a part of Indiana Jones IV even if Connery did come back. Still, it would be nice to see him on the big screen just one last time.
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