George Lucas chats Indy IV

When we think about the finally active fourth instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise, we can’t help but feel a tiny chill of worry penetrating our mortal souls whenever George Lucas is invited to talk about it,

While the franchise should be fairly safe in the hands of Steven Spielberg, Lucas’ position as producer (and The Beard’s mate) does give him an awful lot of power, and usually when he’s made decisions, they’re what you might refer to as questionable. Junking Frank Darabont’s script? This from the man who wrote The Phantom Menace?

Though he wouldn’t be drawn on the top-secret shooting locations for the film, he did confront the issue of Harrison Ford’s age. "He's not running in any of the movies," Lucas told the paper. "He's either on a horse or driving a car or a motorcycle. And he'll play his age in this movie with what's appropriate. The chases are more suspenseful than speedy. Like the rolling ball in the first film - it's not that he's running that fast, it's that there's a giant ball coming at him. And he will get beat up, which is a tradition for us."