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There have been quite some rumors about a MUTT WILLIAMS spinoff or a SHIA LaBOEF as new INDIANA JONES. As horrifying as this might sound, apparently GEORGE LUCAS has no plans to continue the INDY franchise without HARRISON FORD, he told Time.com:

"He is Indiana Jones," Lucas said of Ford. "If Indiana Jones wasn't in it, you'd have to call it Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis. ... "Yeah, it's Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis."
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"The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea," Lucas said. "And that series is very research-intensive. So we're doing research now to see if we can't come up with another object for him to chase ... hopefully we'll come up with something."

Well, I kinda feel like I've been waiting for a good idea by LUCAS for quite some time too...

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL is one of the most successful movies of all times, grossing $743 million worldwide.
If you earn that much money, not even counting DVD sales, another sequel is always an option. GEORGE LUCAS talked to the SUNDAY TIMES about a possible fifth INDY flick.
Here is a snippet:

"We were hoping for box-office figures like that, which is, ultimately, with inflation, what the others have done, within 10%," Lucas explains. "So, we squeaked up there. Really, though, it was a challenge getting the story together and getting everybody to agree on it. Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying 'I want it this way' and 'I want it that way', whereas, when I first did Jones, I just said, 'We'll do it this way' — and that was much easier. But now I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys, too, so it's a little hard on a practical level.

"If I can come up with another idea that they like, we'll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn't that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we'd like to take. I'm in the future; Steven's in the past. He's trying to drag it back to the way they were, I'm trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It's kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we'll see where we are able to take the next one."

Read the full article here.

Dear George, no more of your "takin' it to the next level CGI iz the shizznit" bullshit. Didn't you learn anything from the DARK KNIGHT? Nothing? AT ALL? Ok... I give up.