Movies: Indiana Jones and the Unmade Movies

There's a certain sense of loss when one considers Indiana Jones. The good news is that there is one really really good movie, and two okay movies, and only one stinker, although which is which can be a little fluid, except for the real stinker. If you settle back and watch movies 1, 2 and 3, knowing that you like them in some particular order, you may find yourself coming away liking them in a different order. They're all good, in other words, and you can even find one or two of them growing on you more than you expected. As for Indy 4, if you find yourself watching it again, then civilization has crumbled and it is the only DVD left after the nuclear holocaust, so you have no choice, and you have my sympathies. Then again, it could have been Howard the Duck...

The folks at Mental Floss, obviously fans of the canon, have done us a great service by unearthing not one, not two, but three Indy screenplays that were never produced, with the full stories surrounding them.

The Lost Scripts, Part I: Indiana Jones and the Monkey King

The Lost Scripts, Part II: Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars

The Lost Scripts, Part III: Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods

Oh, what might have been.