 With
the popularization if the Internet in the mid to late 1990’s
came a natural web gossip culture about a possible Indiana
Jones 4, the sites we see today such as the very one
you are on is partly an evolution of this phenomena.
With the onset of the internet saw a very exciting time for
Indiana Jones fans, although there was not yet any official
confirmation of Indy 4 yet, scripts claiming to be
the true documents for the next Indiana Jones installment
were flying around like never seen before in the history of
any movie. Of course all of these scripts were indeed
fakes, works of fan fiction except one which we will discuss
later. However such scripts cannot be scoffed at as
they have a very solid part in the history of Indiana Jones,
so much is this the truth that we can accept these fake Indy
4 scripts as the first real works of fan fiction that
dawned on the internet. Today we see many, new fan novels,
films and scripts pop up in a almost Saturday morning serial
fashion that Raiders was made in homage to.
So it is here that I believe that it is time to salute these
pioneers of Indy Fan Fiction.
There
was one exception to this however there is one script available
that is an official script, but one that was not approved
by Lucas, Spielberg and Ford (who incidentally at the time
was not interested in seeking to play out whip cracking
hero for a forth time) this script has been known under
two titles Indiana Jones and the Monkey King and
Indiana Jones and The Garden of Life, in my opinion
both titles are not worthy enough to fit with a title like
Raiders of the Lost Ark, in an Indy film the title
has a lot to live up to. The script we have just discussed
was written by Chris Columbus (no not the guy who discovered
America)
Over
the coming months we will be presenting to you these dead
scripts and early works of fan fiction and give a brief
comment on what we think. Once a month we will seek
out an early piece of fan fiction and give it a good dusting
off so that it can be enjoyed once again in a whole new
context, such as the present climate of the real Indy
4 script.
If
you come across any scripts that are worthy of a mention,
or maybe you wrote one yourself in the earlier days please
send it in to us and we will do our best to feature it.
Without further ado, lets take a look at the scripts.
~Peter
W. Lally |
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