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Mar 19, 2016 · With Darabont out of the picture, the script was re-worked by Lucas, who then changed the title to Indiana Jones and the Phantom City of the Gods — because apparently some people never...
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was a script written for the development of the fourth Indiana Jones film before it was rejected and reworked into what eventually became Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The story doesn't note the precise year it takes place in but is set around the late 1950s during Eisenhower's presidency.
Prologue: NevadaThe story opens in Nevada, where a semi-retired Indiana Jones and his Russian emigre workmate Yuri Makovsky are working in an Anasazi site. One night, Indiana lends his truck to Yuri to travel to a nearby village, but he sees Yuri meeting with other men and heading for a different direction, so Indy decides to follow the convoy and discover their intentions. After entering a secret US Army base in the desert, Indy discovers that Yuri is actually a Soviet agent and foils his plans to purchase an amount of uranium and a mysterious package from two corrupt American scientists. However, after a chase through the compound, he is captured by the Soviets, put in a car's trunk and left to die in a fake village during a nuclear test. Indy escapes using a refrigerator as shelter and is rescued/arrested by the US Army.
Marshall University and New YorkAfter a long interrogation, Indy is released by the US government, but an FBI agent is assigned to watch him anyway, as the government still suspects him of having communist sympathies. He also loses his job at Marshall University and decides to forget the shock by drinking. Once completely drunk, he decides to break into Marcus Brody's museum during the night and steals some of the objects he brought in, like the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol. Indy is caught by the FBI agent after him, but a Soviet agent (one of the ones Indy saw earlier in the military base in Nevada) kills the FBI man and attempts to kill Indy too. Somehow, Indy recovers control over his actions and is able not only to escape the Soviet, but also to kill him. After searching the Soviet's coat, Indy finds the key to one of Grand Central Station's lockers and flees there avoiding the police, who believes him to have killed the FBI agent.
In New York City, Indy finds a crystal skull in the cabinet and instructions to meet somebody in a hotel room. Indy finds a gangster there that gives him a fake passport, a plane ticket to Peru and further instructions to meet somebody else there. As it is revealed later, the man supposed to use that plane ticket was Yuri, who beats up the gangster.
Peru
In Peru Indy meets Marion, now wife of the charismatic Hungarian nobleman and archaeologist Peter Belasko, who is still angry with Indy for abandoning her. She needs the crystal skull to find the mythical city of Los Dioses, a place in the Peruvian rainforest where (according to the legend) wishes can come true. Many expeditions had tried to locate it before but failed. The last one was headed by an old friend of both, Professor Vernon Oxley, who has been missing since then.
Belasko claims that the Nazca Lines are actually a code that, interpreted correctly, can help locate the city. Indy and Marion rent a plane to photograph the figures. But during their mission, they are attacked by another plane piloted by Yuri. A dogfight follows, after which both machines crash in the Peruvian jungle. Indy and Marion are rescued by a mysterious German doctor named Felix von Grauen who lives among a tribe of Hovitos. He returns them to Belasko's camp, but Yuri is captured by Peruvian soldiers. Yuri avoids being hanged by promising the ruthless Peruvian dictator President Escalante that he will help him to use the skull and find the city. Von Grauen is revealed to be working for Escalante when he sabotages Belasko's expedition the next day, and Yuri is able to make radio contact with a Soviet military airplane.
Characters
•Peter Belasko •Marcus Brody (Statue) •Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir •Escalante •Francisco •Jackson •Henry Walton Jones, Senior •Indiana Jones •Yuri Makovsky •Vernon Oxley •Pablo •Porfi •Renaldo •Marion Ravenwood •The Thin Man •Felix von Grauen •Francisco Pizarro (Mentioned only) •Abner Ravenwood (Indirect mention) •Willie Scott (Mentioned only)
Artifacts
•Chachapoyan Fertility Idol •Cross of Coronado •British Museum Crystal Skull (Mentioned only) •Crystal Skull of Destiny •Mitchell-Hedges Skull (Mentioned only)
Both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas discussed the script's story in April 2000 (which they called Lost City of the Gods), which The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles writer Frank Darabont was hired to write in July 2002. He turned in drafts in May and November 2003. Lucas had issues and began rewriting it with the new title Indiana Jones and the Phantom City of the Gods).
For the villains, Lucas and Spielberg agreed that the film setting of the 1950s could not omit the Cold War and decided that they should be Soviet agents this time. Darabont lamented the decision, as he favored Nazi remnants in South America instead, but accepted it and began working on a final version of the story. Spielberg felt that he could not satirize the Nazis again after making the World War II dramas Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Harrison Ford agreed that they
Darabont's third draft was allegedly leaked to the internet on June 2008, just about a month after the final film was released to theatres. Neither Lucasfilm nor Darabont himself officially recognized its validity, but people who claimed to have read it long before Crystal Skull's final release said that this was the last version that Darabont sent to Lucas.
The idea of an attack by giant, flesh-eating ants was featured in an abandoned script written during the early development of the third Indiana Jones film, which finally became Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
included all elements suggested by George Lucas through the film's long development and that can be seen both in the final film and in earlier drafts like Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars: a late 1950s setting, the Red Scare, aliens, UFOs, Soviet agents, army ants, somebody swinging on a vine, a chase on a rocket-sled, and Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear blast inside a lead-lined refrigerator.
included a crystal skull as the story's MacGuffin, and reintroduced Marion Ravenwood as Indy's love interest (having been a cameo in Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars), an idea Spielberg brought across the screenplays by subsequent writers, which seeded the development that Jones had unknowingly fathered a child.
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Jul 3, 2023 · After the backlash to Crystal Skull, somebody leaked Darabont’s latest draft (on Wikileaks?!) for what was then titled Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, and it’s a pretty revealing...
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Frank Darabont wrote a script for Indiana Jones 4 that George Lucas rejected. Read the script synopsis here; is it better?
from, Dr. Jones? She takes her glasses off. * INDY The way you sink your teeth into those Ws, I’d say the Eastern Ukraine. SPALKO Highest marks. (she takes off her glove and * holds out her hand) Colonel Doctor Irina Spalko. (Indy doesn’t shake) three times I have received Order of Lenin, also medal of Hero of Socialist Labor, and why?
