8 Things That Almost Happened In Indiana Jones Movies
7. Indy Tackles A Haunted Castle
Shia LaBeouf and those CGI monkeys will haunt Indiana Jones fans for a lifetime, but the series was almost haunted in a more traditional sense in the late 1980s.
When Indy was gearing up for his third outing, which ended up being The Last Crusade, George Lucas thought it was a good idea to send him to a haunted castle.
This concept made it to the scripting stage, with Romancing The Stone scribe Diane Thomas drafting a screenplay, but it was Spielberg who ended up being ghostbuster.
The director was against the idea because it was too similar to a recent project he had produced, Poltergeist, and also had reservations about bringing supernatural elements back to the series after they featured in Raiders.
Ultimately, Spielberg felt like the movie would retreading old ground, for both Indy and Spielberg and the idea was shelved.