Jon Kasdan Confirms Indiana Jones 5 Script with Hilarious Tweet

Jon Kasdan is well known for his hilarious tweets and this time he’s really outdone himself responding to a fan’s question about Indiana Jones 5. Multiple sources have confirmed that the co-writer of 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story is rewriting the script for the upcoming sequel and filming is expected to begin in April 2019.

The fifth movie in the Indiana Jones saga was originally expected to be released in 2020 but has since been delayed amid news that screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible) has been replaced by Kasdan who is now re-writing the film’s much-anticipated screenplay. Should the movie be released in 2021 instead, it will mark forty years since the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, the first movie in the series.

A fan on Twitter enquired as to whether Kasdan truly was to write the new script. Kasdan’s reply was pure gold as he used a quote from Raiders to make his point, explaining that Lucasfilm has “top men” working on the screenplay. Fans will easily recognise the illustrious quote from the end of the movie. As Indy enquires of Major Eaton as to what will become of the treasured Ark, concerned that it will fall into the hands of inept bureaucrats, Eaton replies that he has “top men working on it”. A top-secret crate is then seen in a large warehouse, locked up and hidden away, presumably never to be opened again.

Kasdan hails from a family of household names. His Father, the legendary Lawrence Kasdan co-wrote several instalments of the Star Wars saga as well as the first movie in the Indiana Jones franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1992 romantic thriller The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. His brother is Golden Globe nominated writer-director Jake Kasdan, one of the great minds behind Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and the director of 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

To have come from such a talented family and whilst being an exemplary writer and director in his own right, it will certainly be interesting to see how Jon Kasdan approaches a script for the Indiana Jones saga. Steven Spielberg is set to direct the sequel and it will, of course, star veteran actor Harrison Ford who will be returning to the screen as the legendary Indiana Jones for the first time since 2008’s The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.