New Zealand Stuff says they’ve got the scoop on the next Indiana Jones and that it’ll start filming next year. Back last year Shia Labeouf said they had the bones of the story, but it seems things have moved forward, with Stuff saying that:
“Indiana Jones 5 will begin shooting next year, and much of the plot line will be centred around the Bermuda Triangle, an area over the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft are said to have disappeared.
“‘George (Lucas) and Steven (Spielberg) have been working on a script and it’s almost there,’ a source explained. ‘Harrison is on stand-by for filming next year. This looks like being an emotional and exciting conclusion to the franchise, with Indy facing his biggest challenge yet.'”
Although on the surface the Bermuda Triangle seems a suitably paranormal place for Indy, the only thing that makes us slightly suspicious is that all the other Indiana Jones films have focussed on particular objects, rather than a notional geographical area, although it’s possible there’s something in the Bermuda Triangle (Atlantis?) that Indy has to find.
However at the moment we’d treat it as pure rumour, especially as USA Today writer Anthony Breznican has recently tweeted, Lucasfilm tells me flat-out: #IndianaJones 5 rumors, Bermuda Triangle, etc, are completely bogus. Not happening. But then, Lucasfilm has always had a tendency to deny anything and everything until they’re ready to announce it, so who knows?