RELATED: How to Build Indiana Jones in Dungeons & Dragons He also envisioned much more of a champagne hero, a hero who can do well with the ladies and wears tuxedoes.” In The Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom documentary, Spielberg revealed that Lucas always intended for the links to go much deeper than that: “George envisioned a rough-and-tumble adventurer.

Indy's movies included things like a ten-minute action-filled vignette to start each one and a perennial villain pairing consisting of one brainy mastermind and one sadistic goon. Indiana Jones drew more inspiration from the Republic serials of the 1930s than either the James Bond movies or Ian Fleming’s original novels, but the DNA was always there. Lucas recounted to the AFI how he proposed Indiana Jones as something “better than James Bond,” and the two agreed to make what eventually became Raiders of the Lost Ark on the spot. It was still on Spielberg’s mind when he met George Lucas for a vacation in Hawaii in 1977.

The Bond films have a long tradition of only hiring British directors, broken only with No Time to Die’s Cary Joji Fukunaga last year. Broccoli and asked to direct a James Bond film: the first in the wake of 1975’s Jaws, the second with 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. RELATED: James Bond Boss Says Idris Elba's Name Is in the 007 ConversationĪs reported by the Independent in 2016, Spielberg revealed that he twice went to Bond producer Albert R. It seems Connery arrived after his suit did. The film opens with Jones in an unfamiliar setting – a high-end nightclub rather than some trap-laden tomb – dressed in a tuxedo that resembles one of Bond's.

But in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he made a nod to Connery too specific to miss. Most are subtle and fed more by emulation than direct winks at the camera. Pairing Connery with star Harrison Ford was one of the high points of the franchise, and it firmly acknowledged Bond’s importance to his fedora-wearing descendent.īut Spielberg didn’t wait until the third movie to start making references to 007. It’s led to several overt nods to 007 in the Indiana Jones films, including bringing Sean Connery on board for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indiana Jones was conceived as a new take on the James Bond movies, and indeed director Steven Spielberg has expressed his love for the Bond franchise since his earliest days as a director.

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