The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Script and Screenplay


 

 

There’s a saying in show business that “good scripts might end up as bad movies but bad scripts will never be good movies”. And when the three Indiana Jones films ended up as great classics rewriting the action/adventure genre forever, the credit had to go not merely to the innovative stunt sequences but the imaginative plots and the credible, witty, and fast paced screenplays. And as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is all set to release on May 22, 2008 the brains behind the story, George Lucas guarantees the script is a winner.

The chief reason why the Crystal Skull film is coming after 19 years since the last Indiana Jones film is because the makers couldn’t get hold of a screenplay that satisfied all their sensibilities equally. Several renowned scriptwriters like Jeb Stuart, who penned Die Hard and The Fugitive, M. Night Shyamalan, and Jeffrey Boam produced drafts that didn’t spark unanimously with Spielberg, Lucas, and Ford. Finally, it was the draft worked on by David Koepp and Jeff Nathanson that was chosen as the final script for the Indiana Jones Crystal Skull adventure.     

David Koepp confirmed in an interview that the script for the Crystal Skull film would not be cluttered with memorable lines and reminiscent scenes from the previous Indiana Jones films but would rather be a fresh, exciting and completely new world keeping intact the legacy of Indy. Since the much-debated crystal skull is the central element in the new Indiana Jones movies it’s certain that the script will have exciting supernatural scenes that’ll mesmerize the audiences.

The story would likely have Indy on a quest for the Crystal Skull, attempting to thwart the Russian enemies from getting to it. The new characters will definitely add more energy to the script.