Lucasfilm talks about the Young Indiana Jones DVDs!

Saturday, October 8, 2005 - Gilles V
ComingSoon.net published another report from the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith DVD junket with Jim Ward, Sr. Vice President of Lucasfilm and President of LucasArts. Jim Ward mainly talked about the upcoming Revenge of the Sith DVD but also answered a question on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles tv-series DVDs.

Q: Has there been any talks about bringing the Indiana Jones Chronicles to DVD?

Ward: "You betcha! We issued some of them on VHS. We decided not to issue the second batch of them on VHS because the market is moving to DVD. We have been working on that for over a year and a half."

Star Wars producer Rick McCallum was also present at the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith DVD junket. Also McCallum shared some more information about the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles tv-series DVDs to ComingSoon.net.

Q: What are the plans for the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles with the boom of TV shows on DVD?

McCallum: "We have been upgrading the quality of the original 60 mm image. We are also re-doing the soundtracks so that people can take advantage of it in their home. But also over the last 18 months, we have been doing… we're up to like 56, 60 documentaries now —and we're planning 95 altogether plus a lot of lectures that tie in the historical aspects of what's taking place in relationship to where Indy is as this young kid and as a young man. So I'm really excited about that. It will have finally the opportunity to get it out to the audience worldwide that it never really reached in the United States. Because it was an extraordinary success outside of America. And even though we had 10, 11 million really faithful viewers and we were put all over the place, it was just that during that period when network television was falling apart. So, we never really got the mileage that we really expected or wanted. So I'm really thrilled that the DVDs look great so far. We've got about 3 completed. We have 22 that we're doing all together. And you know it's going to be exciting. That will be done in about 18 months. The thing about the DVDs for us is we don't just do one video master for anything. We really make an effort to try and get the best quality that we possibly can, putting the best material, and it does take a long time. We've been working for almost 2 years on this (ROTS) DVD. We've been simultaneously finishing up the film and also at the same time trying to put some really great stuff together."

And last, Jim Ward also briefly mentioned the new Indiana Jones video game his LucasArts is currently working on:

Ward: "We are also working on an Indiana Jones game for the summer of 2007, which we would hope would come out with an Indiana Jones movie."