9 Bizarre Early Drafts That Nearly Destroyed Your Favourite Films

7. Indiana Jones Nearly Had Sex With A Twelve Year Old

Yeah...just let that sink in. I'm not exaggerating here. When George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan all got together in order to iron out the first draft of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, they seriously considered having Indiana Jones engage in an affair with a pre-teen Marion. As it stands, it's implied that Jones' affair with Marion takes place when he's twenty-seven and she's around seventeen, but George Lucas was desperate to lower the age, because €œIt would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time." Yeah...amusing. According to Lucas, "Jones could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven." I don't need to explain why this would have destroyed the film.

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