Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've just clicked over into 2007, Happy New Year etc. – but never mind about that now. We have the best reason to be looking forward to next year: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have finalised the script for the fourth Indiana Jones movie. And they want cameras to roll in June of this year, in time for a release date of May 2008 (what with that traditionally being a pretty lucky month for George and all).
This requires some reshuffling of schedules, given that director and producer are two of the busiest movie makers on the planet. Spielberg's biopic Lincoln is probably going to have to be pushed back, but we're not expecting any serious delays to any of the **Star Wars **TV series or Lucas' Tuskegee airmen movie Red Tails, unless he wants to direct as well as produce it.
Some lucky sod spoke to Lucas as he was in the final stages of orchestrating Pasadena’s Rose Parade (several floats dedicated to Star Wars, very cool), but beyond confirming the green light, he was keeping as schtum as you’d expect, divulging only that it will be a “character piece” with “very interesting mysteries.” But if the 'c' phrase strikes fear into your heart, don't worry - the film's other producers have promised plenty of action, and Harrison Ford seems perfectly happy to be throwing himself around once more.
The other recently solidified detail is the screenplay itself. Many gave it a shot, but the man who will officially have the screenwriting credit for **Indy 4 **(it doesn't have a full title yet) is David Koepp, who penned for Spielberg previously on the first two Jurassic Park movies and War Of The Worlds, and was also behind Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man adaptation.
Despite this amazing news, we’d like everybody to remain calm, and have it from reliable sources that there has been no evidence of abnormal interplanetary alignment, cats and dogs have not started co-habiting, and we’ve just looked out of the window to confirm that it is not raining donuts.