8 Things That Almost Happened In Indiana Jones Movies

8. Walking With Dinosaurs

After Raiders of the Lost Ark proved a box office smash, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas came up with a dozen different ideas for a sequel and they varied between intriguing and mental. This one just so happens to be both.

Spielberg sparked dino mania when he made Jurassic Park in '93, but this Indy sequel might have done that many years earlier had it gotten the nod over Temple of Doom.

According to John Baxter's 1999 book Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas, the Star Wars mastermind originally pitched an idea that involved sending Doctor Jones to a lost world inhabited by prehistoric beasts.

The story would have started out in China and featured a set piece where Indy is involved in a motorcycle chase along the country's Great Wall, and somewhere down the line he discovered a lost valley full of dinosaurs.

This would have sounded too outlandish for Indiana Jones at one point, but those aliens and that nuke-proof fridge in Crystal Skull makes it seem almost plausible.

Spielberg proved himself to be the dino master when he adapted Jurassic Park, so there's no reason to believe this movie would have been anything less than a special effects extravaganza, although stop-motion would likely have been used over CGI, given that computer graphics weren't quite as advanced back then.

So, is this an idea he should resurrect for Indiana Jones 5? Considering we've had much worse, there's no reason why not.