George Lucas wanted Indy IV to be “Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars”
That crazy bastard.
‘Star Wars’ director Lucas had commissioned Jeb Stuart - who wrote the script for ‘Die Hard’ - to write his version, which saw Indy go up against Russian agents and had a climactic battle scene between the US army and alien flying saucers.
You can even download a draft of it.
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