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♪

"Indiana Jones" forever changed

what it meant to be an action hero.

He's a history professor.

He's smart, he has fears, he's not invincible.

He's an archaeologist.

He's resourceful, he's brave, he's indomitable.

He's got a sense of humor about himself.

It is hard to imagine anyone else

in the role, but Harrison Ford wasn't the first choice.

There was this feeling of Harrison Ford is Hans Solo.

He can't be anyone else.

The first offer went out was for Tom Selleck.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark"

brought together two legendary film makers.

Spielberg said to George Lucas,

I wanna do something James Bond-ish,

and George Lucas said, I have something that

is better than Bond.

But bringing "Indiana Jones"

to the big screen would be a challenge.

This was not an easy shoot.

It was over 100 degrees.

Most the cast and crew had

gotten sick with dysentery.

Steven Spielberg had, like, 4,200 snakes flown in.

But when "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

hit the big screen in 1981, it would define

the summer blockbuster.

It was the highest grossing film of 1981.

And everyone kept seeing it over, and over, and over again.

George and I have a few... you know, we have a few more

tricks up our sleeve.

Now, more than 40 years after we first met him,

there will be a new "Indiana Jones" adventure.

They've actually cast a new star to the franchise

to star opposite him in the new movie.

These fans never went away.

It is a permanent fixture

in the zeitgeist now.

Discover how it all began

and where it will go, next.

♪

It's 1977 and George Lucas wants

to be far away from Hollywood and the box office

when his film "Star Wars" hits the silver screen.

He is anxious to avoid any initial fan reactions

or early critic reviews.

George Lucas didn't wanna be around during

"Star Wars" opening weekend just in case it was a bomb.

He wants to get out of Hollywood

on the opening weekend of his movie,

so what does he do? Goes on vacation with his

best friend, who happens to be Steven Spielberg.

Much like Lucas, Spielberg is also

a successful director in Hollywood.

With films like "The Sugarland Express",

"1941", and the box office titan, "Jaws."

And it's on the beaches of Hawaii where Lucas

and Spielberg toss around various film ideas.

Spielberg said to George Lucas,

I wanna do something James Bond-ish.

I used to tease George Lucas.

And I used to say, you know, George,

what I really aspire to do is to write "James Bond",

direct Sean Connery as Bond.

He's like, I got something better.

I got something called "Raiders."

And he told me the story about "Indiana Jones"

and the character. And I said, that's close enough.

And when you have these two minds coming together

for a movie, you just know it's gonna be great.

Lucas's idea is one that was inspired

by his childhood.

George Lucas grew up watching these serials,

some of them from the '30s and '40s.

Movie serials may feel pretty archaic,

but back in the day, movie serial would be

something like, say, "Zorro's Fighting Legion".

He had an idea for kind of a swashbuckling character

that hearkened back to the TV and movies of the '50s.

If you go one Saturday and see a cliffhanging end,

and then the next Saturday you'd see a further extension

of that story. But you had to wait a week.

And he really wanted to pay homage to that kind

of entertainment that really formed him as an entertainer

and a creator.

♪

And the direct visual inspiration for Indiana

comes from an old Zorro lobby card

where he is jumping from his horse to a truck.

There is no Indy without Arrow Flynn

and other adventure films of the past.

So in a sense, it's like George Lucas

and Steven Spielberg are incorporating their

childlike wonder to give a new generation a kind

of childlike wonder.

George Lucas wanted to do something a little more,

for lack of a better term, down to earth and came up

with something called "The Adventures of Indiana Smith."

Doesn't really have the same ring to it.

George Lucas's dog was called Indiana

and that's how we get the name

of one of the greatest heroes in cinema.

Spielberg likes the idea.

His only objection is Indiana's last name.

They thought about it, they wanted a name that was

regular that we could all sort of feel and touch.

And that's how they came up with Indiana Jones.

I think we're all glad it did. It's a little bit

more compelling with that name.

♪

The two agreed to team up to bring this story

and its character to life

with Lucas producing and Spielberg directing.

Initially, Lucas had hoped to direct this himself,

but with the pressures of "Star Wars" box office

release, and you know, and the impending realization

that sequels were gonna happen, um, he had to turn it over.

They bring on Lawrence Kasden

to write the script.

The first job I got after I sold those scripts

was not "The Empire Strikes Back"

but "Raiders of the Lost Ark." And that was a moment

of pretty much surprise and delight for me.

And I felt some pressure. But George Lucas,

and Steven Spielberg, and I immediately went to a house

in the hills of Studio City and worked at the story

for a couple weeks. And I got over

my nervousness pretty quickly.

He worked on it for awhile and Steven had

gone off to Japan with his then girlfriend.

So when he came back and was in a kind of

a strange space and was coming up with

all these wacky ideas. And Larry Kasden,

he wasn't used to this. He had a draft ready to go.

And he went to George Lucas and said, I don't really know

what I'm supposed to do with all these ideas.

And George said, Steven does that.

Don't worry about it. Some of them are kind of

wild and crazy, but just think about them

and we'll carry on. So they finally got

a draft they were happy with. And that became

"Raiders of the Lost Ark."

We had an initially blueprint of three

"Indiana Jones" adventures.

Indiana Jones is this world-traveling archaeologist.

The story is about how there's this race to get this

occult ark that gives people invincible powers.

It's set in 1936. And it's about Indiana Jones

who's hired by the US government to get to this ark

before the Nazis do. So this is a character

that everyone in theaters, especially Americans,

could root for.

♪

They send the script to multiple studios

and wait.

Warner Brothers is interested but the deal falls through.

Paramount Pictures, however, is ready to take

on the adventure.

With a studio backing them, they are ready to cast

a particular type of hero.

Steven Spielberg had an idea once

that he'd be kind of a drunken character.

And Larry Kasden said no and so did George Lucas.

No, we're not gonna do that. So they were playing around

with things, and they came up with something that is

a very sympathetic character in terms of the 1980s audience.

The character of Indiana Jones he's a history professor.

That's what he is.

But then, as his, you know, side job,

he protects antiquities.

He protects antiquities from Nazis.

And if there's anything that makes somebody easier

to root for than protecting antiquates

from Nazis, I don't know what it is.

He seems to have an endless amount

of improvisational qualities to be able to go with the flow,

to handle bad guys and very dangerous situations,

and have the guile to get out of them,

and the nose for knowing what trouble to get into.

He's the guy who doesn't stay down no matter

how hard he gets hit. And that's so different.

That's so different, even from the characters

that inspired "Indiana Jones."

This is a guy who's relatable.

This is not some, like, eight pack, polished,

jacked hero that we're used to seeing in action movies.

This is someone who's an academic, he's smart,

he has fears, he's not invincible.

He's really relatable to the audience.

Spielberg suggests Harrison Ford,

hot of the success of "Star Wars."

But Lucas has someone else in mind.

♪

It's January 1980, and casting conversations

for George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" are beginning to take place.

Who has what it takes to play the world-traveling,

swashbuckling, bullwhip-cracking hero?

They had to find a leading man.

They had six months to find the guy

before they started shooing.

Spielberg has an idea to work with someone

already familiar to Lucas.

Initially when they were thinking about who should

play Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford's name came up.

Obviously Spielberg and Lucas had worked with him.

But there was this feeling of, Harrison Ford is Hans Solo.

He can't be anyone else. This is who he is.

Also, we don't have to work with him on every movie

that we do.

Lucas wants to work with someone relatively unknown.

So they went through a whole bunch of names.

It was getting closer and closer to the date.

There was more of a crunch.

During their nationwide search,

they auditioned more than 250 actors,

including Tim Matheson, Mark Harmon, David Hasselhoff,

and Peter Coyote, but no one seems quite right.

Then someone suggests TV actor Tom Selleck.

He was a little-known guy at the time.

He had been on TV shows, but he certainly wasn't

a household name.

Tom Selleck came very close to playing Indiana Jones.

To the point where they had a costume for him,

there is screen test footage of Tom Selleck in the hat,

with the bullwhip, as Indiana Jones.

And he was ready to go.

He actually had to turn this down because he was already

attached to "Magnum PI."

I was offered the role. I had done "Magnum" the pilot.

I screen tested for "Raiders" and they offered it to me,

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

And what happened was CBS picked up "Magnum"

and I had a previous commitment so I couldn't do it.

I would've done just about anything to do it,

except break my contract.

In fact, CBS did exercise the option on it,

and that meant he had to turn it down

because it was a scheduling conflict.

So he didn't get the part.

Yeah, but, like, Indiana Jones with a mustache?

No. No, thank you. Tom Selleck, great guy.

But not Indiana.

Ironically, it would turn out that due

to the 1980 actors strike later that year,

the shooting of "Magnum PI" would be delayed

and Selleck could have been able to do both projects.

So here's what's great about the universe.

Tom Selleck couldn't do the job because he had

to go film "Magnum PI" pilot, which means he wasn't even

"Magnum PI" yet.

So what did the universe give us?

It gave us "Magnum PI" and "Indiana Jones".

Oh, God, thank you, universe.

This is a last-minute decision.

They were really pushed in a corner.

They only had three weeks until they started shooting

the movie and they still had not cast Indiana Jones.

Spielberg saw some early footage

of "Empire Strikes Back" and he said, no, this is

our guy. This has to be Indiana Jones.

"Indiana Jones". Hans Solo with a whip, baby.

Hans Solo with a whip. Come on, who doesn't want that?

Hans Solo, space "Indiana Jones."

Come on! You can't beat it.

Harrison Ford just nails Indiana Jones.

He's dry, and wry, and handsome, and rugged,

and adventurous, and heroic.

And he's cavalier, he's dashing.

I mean, he's everything you want in a hero.

And hes an archaeologist, so he's a scientist

on top of everything. On the weekends,

he helps orphans and rescue puppies.

♪

Lucas finally agrees that Harrison Ford

is right for the role.

Meanwhile, the search is on the way for an actress

to play Marion Ravenwood, Indiana Jones's love interest.

Steven Spielberg originally, and he wanted

to cast this role himself. And he asked George Lucas who,

remember, was the producer. He was working for George

So he asked George, can I cast this role?

Now, he originally wanted his then girlfriend, Amy Irving

to do it, and she would have probably been

a very good choice.

But they broke up just at the time production

was getting underway, and they didn't feel comfortable

working with each other.

So he went to Debra Winger, who was a pretty big actress

at that time, and she'd already don't "Urban Cowboy."

And there was a scheduling conflict.

Again, these problems of actor's schedules.

So she had to turn it down.

♪

Spielberg and producer, Frank Marshall

head to New York City to see various stage actors

and stage actresses.

And it's where they meet Karen Allen.

Karen Allen basically nailed it in her audition.

She didn't have a lot of credits.

She had been in "Animal House" and had some credits,

but she was almost an unknown actress,

which is all right for this kind of role

because you don't need to have a famous actress

in this role.

Karen Allen, you fall in love with her immediately.

You believe that she is the girl who Indiana Jones

would be pining for through all of this time.

And she's also got this backbone.

And she is a female lead who doesn't really have

all that much to do at times in this movie,

but she stands up to Indiana Jones

and she stands up convincingly to him.

Karen Allen is so good in this movie.

She's like a great duet partner. She hangs note for note

with Harrison Ford who, for the most part,

gets to do all the fun stuff in this movie.

His name isn't the one in the title of the movie,

but it is in all of the sequels.

All of the sequels begins with the words "Indiana Jones."

And yet, you don't feel for a minute that

Maryann Ravenwood doesn't belong there.

♪

And to make sure Allen can be the rough

and tumble match for Indiana, Spielberg asks her

to do something not so ladylike in her audition.

Well, the thing about Karen Allen is obviously

she's beautiful, right? So she was gonna be

a great female lead just with that.

We could all kind of connect the dots of why Indiana

would love the Maryann of that type.

But the funny thing is about Karen Allen is

when she was auditioning for the role, Steven Spielberg,

because she's tough, she's gotta drink guys

under the table, like, she's a partner of Indy.

Like, she's not the damsel in distress.

This is not the female lead for that.

He asked her how well she could spit.

And, uh, I don't really know how well she can spit,

but she got the part, so that's gotta say

something to me.

♪

With the roles cast, the actors prepare for shooting.

Harrison Ford obviously really had to beef up

for the role. He wasn't a big action star,

despite appearing in a couple of "Star Wars" movies

at the time. He did some intensive training,

some physical training for the film.

He really learned how to whip as Indiana Jones

and utilize that on set in a number of incredible

action sequences, doing his own stunts,

and really proving how much he knew.

So, Harrison Ford as a young, debonair,

dashing, virile young man, says, uh, hey, I gotta do

my own stunts. I gotta make this look real.

And everybody was like, who do you think you are?

Tom Cruise? What are you talking about?

Harrison Ford is physically believable.

It's not like Indiana Jones is this Olympic gymnast,

it's not like he's a professional boxer or whatever.

He just has to be scrappy.

And that's the thing Harrison Ford does so well.

He's not the guy who's gonna go 10 rounds with someone

in a boxing ring, but he's just strong enough,

he's just plucky enough, and he's just crazy enough.

Harrison Ford threw himself into everything he was doing.

Like, as crazy as it sounds, his performance

in the "Star Wars" movies are a little underrated,

the way he blended his physicality

and his charisma into those movies.

Because the character became so iconic,

the character became bigger than the performance.

And that arguably happened here, too.

We remember Indiana Jones with the hat and the whip,

but Ford deserves a lot of credit for why

those movies work and why they sustain,

and why that character is still so influential.

A great deal of it comes, comes from, from the actor,

or from me, in this case. Uh, and it doesn't always

happen that way unless there's a, there's the right atmosphere,

unless the directors wants that input.

The actor's capable of giving it and the circumstances

are correct for them to work together.

And in this case, that was certainly true.

It was a very collaborative feeling

between Steven and I.

The cast is locked, the script is

in final revisions, the locations are scouted,

and now it's time to begin filming.

But mother nature has other plans.

♪

Shooting on "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

begins in June of 1980, the first of 88 planned

shoot days starts in the historic French resort town

of La Rochelle, to shoot the German submarine scenes.

But hurricane-like conditions forced delays,

putting the schedule and the budget at risk.

It would not be the only shooting challenge for the team.

This was not an easy shoot. They were in Tunisia,

it was over 100 degrees. Not only was it hot,

everybody got a stomach bug except Steven Spielberg,

who brought his own canned goods.

We wake up sick, we go to bed sick,

we would be sick while we were working.

Sometimes we'd have to stop while an actor

sort of passed out or made a mad dash

to his trailer.

And uh, that makes it very difficult.

I think people always remember the famous scene

where he is in Cairo. He's facing off

with a sword-wielding villain and he's only got,

seemingly, his bullwhip. What happened was there was

going to be an extended sequence there

of a fight, and it was one of the sequences

they had designed.

And most the cast and crew had gotten sick with dysentery.

They just had to get that day's shot in as fast as they could,

because Harrison Ford just couldn't stay

on the set much longer.

That was a mechanism of necessity.

The crew was sick and they just can't

shoot so long. So instead of having

a sword fight, Indiana Jones just shoots the guy.

And I mean, it's probably one of the most memorable scenes

in the entire franchise.

♪

One of Spielberg's many ideas

comes to life on set even better than he imagined,

creating the iconic opening sequence that's still

talked about today.

What is the most famous image from "Raiders of the Lost Ark?"

Probably Indiana Jones running for his life

while being chased by a giant rolling boulder.

The boulder sequence is on screen for about 11 1/2 seconds.

Harrison Ford was the person who said I really think

it should be me running ahead of this boulder.

We want the audience to see my face,

to connect with it. And it was such a good call,

because now that really is burned into our memories

and it's such an important scene.

♪

The reason the rolling boulder sequence

in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is as iconic and as memorable

as it is is because Indiana Jones is a real person.

If Indiana Jones was a superhero, if Indiana Jones

was Superman, or Green Lantern, or the Flash,

we wouldn't care about that scene at all.

It'd be like, oh, so he punches the boulder,

it rolls over him, so what?

We care about that scene because Indiana Jones

is running in fear of his life.

He doesn't run particularly well.

So this is not, like, a slick, polished guy.

This is not our typical "James Bond" hero.

He's a little rough around the edges.

He's a little bit gruff.

Keep in mind, he's also an academic.

Yes, he gets into fights, but he really is

an academic at heart and he has fear.

So this is someone who does not seem invincible.

He's terrified of snakes, as we all learned

in that one scene.

He has fears. And one of the things I love

about his fears is, in the first phenomenal

opening sequence in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

there is that incredible scene with Alfred Molina

where they're going down the tunnel

and going for the treasure, everyone knows that scene.

But what I noticed recently is there's that great moment

where Molina turns and he's got the spiders

all over his back. Indy wipes the spiders

off his back like he's just brushing everything out

of the way. Oh, no big deal.

Who cares? Don't worry about it.

But then he sees a snake in a plane not long after,

and he freaks out.

There's a big snake in the plane, Jacques!

Oh, that's just my pet snake, Reggie.

I hate snakes, Jacques!

So he defines that he's heroic, but he's got

this very simple and clear Achilles heel.

I can jump over things, I can almost die,

I can avoid things, I can wipe spiders away

like I'm wiping a fly, but if I see a snake,

I'm gonna lose my mind.

Oh, God, first of all, who likes snakes?

Okay, I'm sure there's a lot of people out there

that like snakes, all right? Let me just say this,

and I don't' mean anything by it. You're creepy.

Okay? Nobody likes snakes. All right?

Later in the film, Indy get captured by his enemy

and is thrown into a pit surrounded by what he

fears the most.

I heard that Steven Spielberg has, like, 4,200 snakes

flown in from all different countries

in order to make this scene real.

Oh, my God. Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

Harrison Ford was totally fine with all the snakes.

It was actually just really convincing acting.

The person who was not okay with all of those snakes

was Karen Allen. She was so terrified

of these thousands of snakes that they had to bring

in a stunt double for her and even the stunt doubles

didn't work, so they actually had to bring in

an animal handler. Turned out the animal handler

was a male, so they had the animal handler

shave his legs, put on Marion's white dress.

So if you watch that scene closely, you might see

some shaved male legs with the snakes there.

On the "Dick Cavett Show" in 1981,

Steven Spielberg talks about how he got Allen

to scream in the scene.

When she least suspected, I dropped a snake

from the scaffold over her head and it came around her neck

and she let out a scream that i was able

to use in all the movies.

I made 11 copies of the scream

and kept cutting in. That's a good scream.

That last scream, we'll never beat that one.

The action and adventure is mounting

with every scene, culminating in the heroes

catching up with the ark and the Nazis.

What's the scene that everybody loves?

Of course it's when you find out what's in the ark.

What's the ark? A bunch of dust.

Until God shows up. What?

Take that, you Nazis.

It's when Indy triumphs, he gets the ark,

and you actually see the bad guy, the Nazi,

his face literally melt, and that's something that stuck

with audiences long after the movie had ended.

I think it also has one of the great endings

of any movie in history. I think that the opening

of the ark of the covenant is terrifying and it is shocking.

And it's interesting because it's the climax of the movie

in which our hero's primary responsibility is to

keep his eyes closed. And that's an odd thing.

He doesn't, in that moment, do something inherently heroic.

He keeps his eyes closed as Nazi faces

around him are melting off. That's pretty heroic

in its own way.

Shooting wraps after 73 days of filming.

Despite the challenges of the shoot,

Spielberg comes in 15 days ahead of schedule

and right on budget.

So he hit his budget marks. And that is,

think of how much money that made.

It only cost $20 million.

So he was trying to prove something to the Hollywood world

that he was not this profligate wunderkind

who was not paying attention to things, that he could

be a disciplined film maker.

And he has become a very disciplined film maker.

♪

Editing is underway.

And it's truly a collaborative effort

between Spielberg and editor, Michael Khan.

But the film would not be complete without

the iconic score.

Steven Spielberg's frequent collaborator,

John Williams, who's behind such iconic scores

like the "Star Wars" films and "Jurassic Park",

he scored the "Indiana Jones" films,

and he is such a part of its success,

like he is with so many of the films he touched.

He brings such a sense of adventure, and whimsy,

and fun to this franchise that you really can't

imagine these films without his score.

And you can't forget the score of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Probably one of the top five, okay, right up there

with "Star Wars." I mean, just unbelievable,

full, rich, orchestral arrangements

that really capture, like action and emotion.

♪

I mean you can't beat that!

That's always gonna be stuck in all of our heads

for better or for worse until the end of time.

And you know, we all just wanna be our own hero.

The "Raiders March" is just, like, you can't not hear it

when you see Harrison Ford.

The film is set to be released

in the summer of 1981, with the movie posters boasting,

from the creators of "Jaws" and "Star Wars".

And the expectations are enormous.

♪

♪

It's the summer of 1981, and the ultimate

adventure film with the ultimate hero rolls out

onto the big screen to massive fanfare.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" will define the summer blockbuster.

This is the ultimate summer blockbuster.

It was really before we started to talk about

a summer blockbuster. This is one of those films

that created the phenomenon. There's been been many since.

This is one of the originals.

It had an enormous opening weekend.

It went on to gross over 381 million.

And this was a summer blockbuster that actually

stayed in theaters through February,

which really was unprecedented and you never see that

happening nowadays.

It was the highest grossing film of 1981.

And everyone kept seeing it over, and over, and over again.

It was one of those movies where because you probably

missed one of the great action scenes with your

jaw agape the first time around, you had to go back

and watch it a second time.

I mean, in 1981, for it to gross $380 million,

do we even know what that figure means today?

Can movies even make that much?

I mean, for back then, that's just an absurd

amount of money. I mean, that's a hit.

That's a franchise, if you will. I mean, audiences were hooked.

And clearly with that number, they were gonna stay hooked.

A movie hanging around in so many theaters

for this long a period of time meant there was multiple

viewings around the world. So that's why it just lasted

and lasted as long as it did and made the tremendous box office.

Not only did the film blow the top

off the box office, but in 1982,

it will take home five Oscars, winning Best Art Direction,

Editing, Sound, Sound Editing, and Visual Effects.

And it is nominated for Best Picture,

Best Director, Best Cinematographer,

and Best Original Score.

Often movies that are summer blockbusters and make

a ton of movie on opening weekend are not also

award winners, but this was something that kind of

straddled both sides.

So it cleaned up at the Oscars,

at the Golden Globes, it was really critically acclaimed

and also beloved by fans.

It was the first VHS to sell over a million copies.

It's a blockbuster in a sense that families are going

to see this in theaters, but it's also accessible

to those who maybe can't make it to the theaters,

or who want to watch it again, and again

after its theatrical run.

This is when VHS was really exploding,

but tapes were still really expensive.

It was a commitment, an investment to buy a movie.

The astounding success solidified

Harrison Ford's position as a leading actor.

Harrison Ford was already a star of the "Star Wars" movies

before coming on as Indiana Jones,

but this really just catapulted him to the next level.

I mean, he has appeared in so many "Indiana Jones" movies,

he's done so much since, and he really cemented himself

in Hollywood as one of the biggest stars at the time.

♪

This is the film that kind of made Harrison Ford

the actor we think about as being Harrison Ford.

He followed this up with some very fine dramatic work.

And he can do comedy, too.

But this is the movie that Harrison Ford

established himself as a movie star.

This movie really sent Harrison Ford

into a new stratosphere. Obviously, people knew his name.

He was famous for being in "Star Wars",

but this really brought him to another level.

And it also showed the world and it showed Hollywood

that he wasn't just Hans Solo.

♪

Ford's contract ties him to three

"Indiana Jones" films.

And in 1983, he and Spielberg reteamed to make

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."

I don't think it will be the last of the "Raiders" series.

I know that George and I have a few,

I know we have a few more tricks up our sleeve.

And I'm sure there'll be another "Indiana Jones" movie.

These aren't sequels. These are further adventures.

And this time, they have a new

romantic relationship for Indy.

We didn't have Karen Allen here,

we had a new lover interest with Kate Capshaw as Willie Scott.

To me, the action scenes in "Temple of Doom"

are as good as anything in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

It's a phenomenal directing job.

But it's a tough movie to love because it's so dark.

When we made Indy 2, I guess it was a bit like

the second follow-up to

"Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back,"

which was a darker, more sub-terrainian esoteric story.

And that was pretty much the form of the story

that George Lucas wrote for

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."

It was disturbing.

There were parts of it that were very disturbing.

♪

The dark nature and themes of "Temple of Doom"

caused a bit of controversy.

You had child labor in there, you know, there were slaves

and you had deaths.

"Temple of Doom" is a little bit more violent

than "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

The most notable violent scene is when the cult

is performing a human sacrifice and a man's heart is ripped

right out of his chest. It was the catalyst for the

Motion Picture Association of America to introduce

a new rating of PG-13.

The critics gave the movie a real pounding for its violence.

We created the PG-13. Our movie rattled up

the review board.

♪

"Temple of Doom" is released in May of 1984.

And despite the new rating restrictions, fans flock

to see their hero, Indy.

It reaches a one-day record of $9 million.

It has the largest one-week gross

coming in at $45 million and it makes

over $330 million worldwide.

"Temple of Doom" was a massive summer blockbuster, too.

And it kind of proved that this character had legs

and that you could put him in other situations

and people would still keep coming back.

Spielberg, Lucas, and Ford reunite

in 1987 for the third installment of the adventure,

titled, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

And this time, we take a deeper dive

into Indiana's past and are introduced to his father,

played by Sean Connery.

1989 was a really exciting time for the franchise

because it saw the introduction of River Phoenix

and Sean Connery, Sean Connery playing his dad

and River Phoenix playing Indiana Jones's younger self.

And it kinda showed three generations of this character

coming to life, and it was a huge moment

for the franchise.

Indiana Jones is always in the moment.

So this way, Lucas and Spielberg were again

working together trying to find ways of saying,

well, he has a past, he had a father,

he had a childhood. So they're trying to get away

from his always being in the moment.

During this adventure, Indiana searches

for his estranged father who has gone missing

while hunting for the holy grail.

Not only is it a great plot device

and an occasion for a lot of great humor,

but it's really emotional core of the film.

It's the first time we see Indiana Jones in a

real emotional relationship.

It's a movie that designed to have you talk about

how much you love it, to have you talk about

how great Harrison Ford and Sean Connery are together,

to have you talk about the moment he chose poorly.

It's designed for those moments.

There's a real, like, playfulness to it at times,

especially in the relationship between Indy and his dad.

It's almost a comedy at times, in ways that

the other films are not. And it's a huge,

just a massive hit in '89.

"The Last Crusade" smashes records

at the box office when it is released in 1989,

making history to be the first film to make

more than $10 million in a single day.

Globally, it makes more than $450 million.

Four years after "The Last Crusade",

the idea for the fourth film was in development.

But what will it take to get Ford to dust off

his whip again?

♪

Despite the success of the first three films

in the "Indiana Jones" series, it takes George Lucas

four years to generate the next idea.

As he is juggling other projects it then takes an additional

15 years to assemble the team to get the film made.

So after 1989, there was sort of this

dry spell where Indy fans were just waiting

for the next installment. And it took nearly 20 years

after the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

was released.

To get that opportunity in 2008 was a big deal,

and I think proves there's still an appetite

for "Indiana Jones" stories.

♪

Lucas's plot idea for this film,

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

revolves around a different kind of supernatural phenomenon.

Aliens.

So far, we've really associated Indiana Jones

with kind of mid-century obsessions like

the pre-World War II era or Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

was fascinated by Roswell and UFOs.

The film is cast and they bring back

a familiar face from the original movie.

There's a reason why she comes back for the

fourth "Indiana Jones" and it's because

she's so likable. You wanna spend more time

with her and you want to see what her relationship

with Indiana Jones will look like moving forward.

I think that this film's been such a part of my life,

and this character has been such a part of my life

that, um, it really didn't seem a difficult task at all

to just dive right back into the story,

and right back into the role of the character,

and my relationship with Indy.

Cate Blanchett is brought on to play the villain,

and Shia LaBeouf is a young addition

to the Jones family.

We also have a new star on the scene, Shia LaBeouf,

who plays their son. And this is someone who was

sort of set to take "Indiana Jones"

into the next generation.

Released in 2008, a whole 19 years after the third

"Indiana Jones" installment, the fourth film is

the second highest grossing movie of the year.

Despite coming out so many years later,

the fourth film was actually the biggest film

in the franchise so far.

Even after a 20-year waiting period, it did

100 million opening weekend, 790 million worldwide.

And what that tells you is that these fans never went away.

They were always waiting for more of "Indiana Jones"

and they never lost interest.

This is curiosity. This is people wanting

to see "Indiana Jones", dying to see "Indiana Jones",

wanting to know what they're up to.

How many of those people came back?

Probably quite a few.

It's hard to overemphasize the influence of "Indiana Jones"

on modern storytellings. You have movies like

"Captain America: the First Avenger",

or the "Tomb Raider" series and video games

that are really making callbacks to this franchise.

"Indiana Jones" might seem like an exception

to the model of the '80s action hero,

to a genre that "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

ironically lit the fuse on.

There is no John McClane in "Die Hard"

without "Indiana Jones."

Please don't let me die.

How often does a male action her say,

please, God, don't let me die?

Indiana Jones is implying

or saying under his breath, please, God, don't let me die

the entirety of the movie of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

If imitation is considered the sincerest

form of flattery, "Indiana Jones" is right

at the top of iconic films being referenced in other works,

such as "Guardians of the Galaxy."

So this orb has a real shiny blue suitcase

arced with the covenant Maltese Falcon sort of vibe.

In "Jumanji's sequel "Welcome to the Jungle",

directed by writer Lawrence Gadsden's son, Jake.

I mean, I saw you guys in the bazaar and I thought

to myself, no way. And then I was like,

yeah, that's totally, backs up against the wall!

Oh my goodness!

And has even been parodied on "Family Guy."

♪

Ah, here it is.

And Tom Selleck gets his change to play

Indiana Jones in a "Magnum PI" episode.

Ridley Smythe?

Magnum.

It's one of these films that just gets rediscovered

by new generations. I think "Raiders" set the bar

at a very high level, and grandfather now taking

kids to see the film they saw as a kid,

and it plays to a very young audience.

And that is the audience for movies.

Indiana Jones is obviously one of the most iconic characters

in all of film history. There are people who

grew up with the character, people who came onto

the character a little later in life.

Indiana Jones, to me, is one of the most

iconic silhouettes in movie history.

You see that hat, you hear the music,

you get the feeling in your body, especially

of a certain generation, like nothing else.

Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes

in cinematic history. The production values

of this movie are extraordinary. They hold up today,

everything by being chased by a boulder to being bitten

by a snake, it's all realistic. And I think that's what

the success of this movie is.

"Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" is

a national obsession because it captures the

spirit of America.

We're talking about adventure,

we're talking about exploration,

we're talking about bravery.

The truth is, it really does capture what we

see ourselves as, which is swashbuckling,

adventure-loving people.

Fans will once again get their Indy fix,

waiting another decade. By 2021, the fifth film

is in the works, set to be released in 2022.

So in 2022, Harrison Ford will be coming back

as Indiana Jones.

Fans are incredibly excited. And just imagine how crazy

fans are gonna go in theaters when they see Harrison Ford,

the original Indiana Jones on screen, putting on that hat,

and brandishing that bullwhip.

They've actually cast a new star to the franchise

to star opposite him in the new movie.

And that's "Fleabag's" Phoebe Waller Bridges.

She is an iconic comedian. She's so great.

And I'm just so excited to see what role she plays

in the franchise.

It still feels new and exciting to me.

It still feels like a part of American culture.

And there's going to be a whole new generation

of movie fans who wanna see what their

"Indiana Jones" movie looks like.

I think we're ready for another "Indiana Jones" movie.

It doesn't even matter what they're doing

or how much technology they're gonna bring in,

although I'm sure the bullwhip will make

an appearance, of course.

It's just going to be a smash hit because it's

"Indiana Jones".

I don't think we'll see the last of "Indiana Jones"

when Harrison Ford finally leaves the franchise

after the fifth film, or maybe sixth film

or seventh film.

I think franchises this big don't die.