Picture this: Indiana Jones opens up the Ark of the Covenant and, as spirits fly all about, he says: “I see dead people.” It could happen.
Word comes in today’s Daily Variety that M. Night Shyamalan, the director and screenwriter behind “The Sixth Sense,” is negotiating with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford to revive the Indiana Jones movies.
Shyamalan wants to write the script for a fourth Indy movie and, although nothing is set in stone, Variety says Spielberg could direct it. Ford, though pushing 60, would return as the globe-trotting archaeologist, occultist and Nazi-fighter.
“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the first Indy flick, was released when Ford was pushing 40, in 1981, followed by “Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom” (1984) and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989).
