The following is an early draft of the Indiana Jones 4 script. It's from an official copy of the script which was drafted by Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, The Fugitive) and was at one time the script for Indiana Jones 4 but was later scrapped.
Although it did not survive the numerous rewrites, you can now see the Indy movie that could've been. A real piece of Indy history!
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INDIANA JONES AND THE SAUCER MEN FROM MARS
SCREENPLAY BY
JEB STUART
STORY BY
GEORGE LUCAS AND JEB STUART
LUCASFILM LTD.
P. O. Box 2009
San Rafael, CA 94912
REVISED DRAFT
February 20, 1995
From the Paramount mountain
WE DISSOLVE to an identical mountain towering over a subtropical jungle.
Far below, a SMALL STEAMER moves down a dark river.
A LEGEND APPEARS ON SCREEN: BORNEO 1949.
KABUL(V.O.)
Dr. Jones, we're out of coal!
ANGLE THE BOAT
A wild-eyed native man, KABUL, shovels the last dust of coal
into the engine and looks back terrified at
INDIANA JONES
He comes up from below deck and takes the wheel.
INDY
Burn anything you can get your hands on, Kabul. I'll try to get her out into the current.
He turns the wheel hard and checks the steam gauge.
INDY
Damnit, I meant to get that gauge fixed.
He bangs it with his hand.
ALONG THE RIVERBANK
crocodiles, twenty-feet long and six months between meals, eye the boat.
KABUL
pulls down a pole holding the awning. He breaks it across his knee but instead of SNAP we hear a BOOM. Indy and Kabul exchange a look and suddenly a plume of water rises twenty feet high off the port side of the steamer. Indy looks downriver at...
A PT BOAT
World War II-vintage, equipped with machine gun and cannon. It roars around a bend in the river and bears down on the tiny steamer.
The attacking boat's deck swarms with RIVER PIRATES waving guns and parangs (machetes). Its front cannon fires another 5mm shell -
CLOSE ON INDY'S PISTOL
He cracks it open, checks the cylinder -- it's full -- and tosses the pistol to Kabul.
INDY
Make them count, Kabul.
Kabul nods but doesn't like the odds. Indy takes a .45 automatic from a hidden shelf under the gunwale.
THE P.T. BOAT
pulls up alongside and SIX PIRATES swarm onto the steamer's deck. At first the tiny steamer seems deserted then suddenly the WHAAAACK! of Indy's whip wraps around a startled pirate and hurls him over the gunwales into the river. He snaps the whip loose and shoots a second pirate as
