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IndianaJones.com weblink going to be actively updated with new
content, and tied in with the upcoming Indiana Jones 4?
JW: Absolutely. Certainly, it (IndianaJones.com) is a place
to come for exclusive information. But obviously somewhere out
there is going to be Indiana Jones 4. And that would be a wonderful
place for people to come and check things out.
Is there anything specific that is going to be on the
website when the set streets?
JW: Not that I'm going to tell you that. (laughs) I want you
to go there and check it out.
What is the status of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles?
JW: We are working on that as we speak. There is no specific
timetable. We are very excited about the possibilities. They
are really beloved. We get calls all the time about them. It
will happen, definitely.
Were there any digital tweaks or changes made during
the restoration? For example, during the famous Well of the
Souls scene in Raiders, a well-known reflection of a snake seems
to have disappeared.
JW: (laughter) Well, I'll tell you, you are going to have to
look at your check disc.
Aside from the fantastic work we've seen here, there
were some terrific documentaries made on each film for television
at the time of each film's release. Are there any plans to release
those on DVD as well?
JW: Who knows? In the future, absolutely. Part of the problem,
guys, when you have the abundance of material that we did it
gets hard to decide what to pick and choose. For eventual future
Indy releases, that would be possible.
I will tell you that there is a specific fifth disc that you
can get at Best Buy that features one of the original documentaries.
It is exclusive to Best Buy. It includes about a ten-minute
original documentary that was done at the time of Raiders of
the Lost Ark. We feel that for our Best Buy customers, who tend
to be on the leading edge of DVD purchasing and are early adopters,
that they are going to be hardcore fans and will find that valuable.
Is there every going to be a possibility of a theatrical
re-release for any of the films in the trilogy?
JW: I don't know. Maybe you can ask Frank and Steven that.
We really wanted to focus on the DVDs. We felt we wanted to
get them to the marketplace and make them the best they could
possibly be in that format. Theatrical events before the DVD
are marketing events. To be quite honest with you, this is Indiana
Jones, and we really felt what people really wanted were the
DVDs. Does that preclude someday a re-release theatrically?
Again, Megan is really sweating over there again. (laughs) We
haven't really gotten that far.
So, just why did the set take so long? Why six years?
JW: Well, it is always an issue. And I know when I answer this
one you are going to hit me with Star Wars so I'm going to kill
two birds with one stone. It is an issue of aligning the planets.
In particular with Indiana Jones, you have people like Steven
Spielberg, George Lucas, Frank Marshall...that all have to sort
of get together and create a vision for this thing. And it just
takes time to do that. With schedules and timing and all of
that. So it basically wasn't until a year ago when we started
this project that that really could happen. And it is the same
issue with Star Wars with George's focus (now) on Episode III.
Yes, the original Star Wars trilogy will come out on DVD. We
just don't have a timeframe. But we did get Indy out, guys!
(laughter)
Special thanks to all at Lucasfilm and Paramount
Home Entertainment. All images copyright Lucasfilm Ltd.
Note: Portions of this transcript have been
edited for redundancy, and some questions reordered to improve
continuity.
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