My Concerns for Indy 5 as a Fan and as an Author

Recently Steven Spielberg revealed that the next Indiana Jones movie is not only going to stick with the ongoing story of Indy getting older, leaving Harrison Ford as the title character, but also the story will continue where the Crystal Skull left off.  This concerns me both as an Indiana Jones fan, and as the author of Relic Worlds.

As a fan, I’m concerned for the same reason a lot of people are.  Crystal Skull was awful.  I mean, Star Wars prequels bad.  By declaring that the storyline from this will continue without any acknowledgement of how bad Crystal Skull was, or reassurance that this will be better, Spielberg has revealed a certain amount of tone deafness on his part.  I’m sure he has so many levels of walls around him that he doesn’t hear most of what the public’s saying.  It’s one of the biggest problems with artists reaching a certain level of fame.  But this is one of those times that so many people cried out in horror.  It’s hard to imagine him sticking his head so deeply in the sand.  But he just might have.

As the author of Relic Worlds, I’m particularly worried because Crystal Skull was about Indiana Jones searching for aliens.  This could work greatly in my favor, or greatly against me.  It could give me a lot of great promotion opportunities, or it could cause people to think I’m copying Spielberg.

In any case, it’s clear to me that I need to get the word about Relic Worlds out even more so people know about it before they know much about Spielberg’s next stories for Indy.

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