Connery Could Be Back for INDIANA JONES
Thursday April 6 2:04 PM ET
With no official word or deals signed, Harrison Ford has hinted that he would like Sean Connery to reprise his Indiana Jones role for the impending fourth installment.
By Sawsan Antoun, FilmStew.com
The fourth installment of Indiana Jones may be moving up the development ladder faster than expected. After months of conflicting reports about the status of the action-adventure franchise, anxious fans can relax a bit now that several players, especially actor Harrison Ford, have expressed their commitment to the project.
As FilmStew reported last month, Ford told German magazine Fit for Fun, "Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon."
In a new tidbit about the project, Ford, in a recent interview with BBC1, happily hinted that Sir Sean Connery could be reprising his role as Indy's father, a role the Oscar-winning Connery originated in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Connery, who is currently linked to a cameo in the latest James Bond film, Casino Royale, is currently at his Bahamas home recovering from surgery to remove a benign tumor.
Spielberg is attached to direct the fourth installment, with George Lucas and Frank Marshall producing. Despite reports that the director is taking a year hiatus, Ford's publicist, Marvin Levy, believes that Spielberg "would be starting something before 2007," according to E! Online, and that Indiana Jones would be the perfect follow-up to the heavy drama Munich.
While in Sydney promoting his new film Eight Below, producer Marshall opened up about Indiana 4. "It is still on the front burner," Marshall told reporters. "We really have to get the story right. The story has to be really good for any of us to do it, and there are three pretty strong-willed creative minds involved in saying yes."
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