Rumour had it yesterday that the next installment of the Indiana Jonesfranchise would revolve around the search for the Bermuda Triangle but USA Today writer Anthony Breznican later debunked it, tweeting;
Lucasfilm tells me flat-out: IndianaJones 5 rumors, Bermuda Triangle, etc, are completely bogus. Not happening.
The rumour started at the New Zealand website 'Stuff', who claimed that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had put together the screenplay themselves (despite the usual working practices being a third party screenwriter hired to deliver a script based on Lucas/Spielberg's pitch) and that Harrison Ford was on stand-by for filming to begin next year;
"This looks like being an emotional and exciting conclusion to the franchise, with Indy facing his biggest challenge yet.""Shia LaBeouf has a central role again as Indy's son but this will be a blockbuster made in the old fashioned way rather than the CGI efforts of the last movie."
To be fair, everyone should have realised it was a rumour by the above statement alone. George Lucas making a movie without CGI seems a tad out of reach, especially as the very subject of the locale of the Bermuda Triangle would demand extensive CGI work? Anyway despite this story being untrue, it is actually a fact that Indiana Jones V is happening. Shia LaBeouf claimed last Summer that Lucas had 'cracked the story' for a fifth adventure and this March, Harrison Ford said;
Steven and George and I are sort of agreed on a germ of an idea and were seeing what comes of it. The process works like this We come to some basic agreement and then George goes away for a long time and works on it. Then Steven and I get it in some form, some embryonic form. Then if we like it we start working with George on it and at some point down the line its ready and we do it. We now might have more information about the possible sequel".
So not the Bermuda Triangle - but it will be something. Alternative realities, aliens again, the search for the Lost City of Atlantis?