Lucasfilm President Finally Confirms Indiana Jones Sequel Is On The Horizon

1CK1S · May 2015

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For the June issue’s cover story on Star Wars, Vanity Fair’s Bruce Handy spoke at length with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy about things that take place in a galaxy far, far away. But in between filling our hearts with a new hope, Kennedy paused to throw a bone to the fans of another Harrison Ford vehicle: Indiana Jones.

While the further adventures of everyone’s favorite fedora-sporting professor have been anticipated ever since Disney and Paramount brokered a financial deal for “future films” back in 2012, this is the first official confirmation from Kennedy and the House of Mouse. Handy writes of the 2012 deal between Disney and Lucasfilm:

In buying the company, Disney also got rights, for better or worse, to less-storied Lucasfilm properties, among them Willow and Radioland Murders. A bigger prize is the Indiana Jones franchise. Kennedy confirmed rumors that another Indy movie “will one day be made inside this company. When it will happen, I’m not quite sure. We haven’t started working on a script yet, but we are talking about it.”

Kennedy’s statement is a much more optimistic and concrete version of what Disney chairman Alan Horn said last year. “We haven’t done anything,” he told Variety. “We don’t have a story. We need a story.” While there’s still no word on which rumored hunk might wear the fedora next, Kennedy and everyone else working at the higher level is clear about one thing: first, the movie needs a script. And who better to find that script than Kennedy, who served as Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg’s trusted executive producer on all of his projects from 1982-2012? Once Kennedy has all cylinders firing in space, she can turn her attention from the sands of Jakku to the dust of Indy's next dig.