M. Night Shyamalan Met With Steven Spielberg To Discuss Indiana Jones Ideas

After the success of The Sixth Sense, director M. Night Shyamalan met with Steven Spielberg to discuss ideas for the fourth Indiana Jones movie (which would later become Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). The director, in promoting his new movie Old, spoke to Collider about this meeting.

Shyamalan said Raiders of the Lost Ark is his favorite movie of all time, so getting to meet with Spielberg was "a dream." As for his idea for the fourth Indiana Jones movie, Shyamalan said, "I did have a take," but it was early days and it never materialized.

"They were bouncing ideas off of me. So everyone had different ideas of what to do. When you say that, I have in my head, it's a green notebook, and I had this idea. It was a darker idea," he said.

"I had an idea. I hadn't pitched it to them or anything like that, but I had an idea," he said. "While I know it is a longshot that we'll ever get to see his green notebook filled with his ideas, hopefully one day he'll post them on his Instagram and we can all imagine the possibilities."

The next Indiana Jones movie is currently filming, and it brings back Harrison Ford once again in the title role. The cast also includes Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Mads Mikkelsen, and Boyd Holbrook.

The movie is being directed by James Mangold (Logan, Ford vs. Ferrari), who took over for Steven Spielberg after he dropped out, making Indiana Jones 5 the first entry in the entire series to not be directed by him.

Indiana Jones 5 is due in theaters on July 29, 2022. The upcoming film is the follow-up to 2008's Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The franchise is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, with Raiders of the Lost Ark hitting theaters back in 1981.