Todd Howard Pitched the Bethesda Indiana Jones Game to George Lucas in 2009 - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 July 2021 / 1,237 Views

Bethesda and Wolfenstein developer MachineGames earlier this year announced a collaboration with Lucasfilm Games to develop a new Indiana Jones game with an original story.

Executive Producer on the game Todd Howard in an interview with The Telegraph revealed he first pitched the game to George Lucas in 2009.

"I think I originally pitched to Lucas in 2009 and I’ve been trying to find a way to make that," said Howard.

"And I think the work MachineGames have done, they’re just phenomenal developers and storytellers. And when I started talking to them about it, it was a good fit. And we got to the opportunity to talk to Lucas and Disney about it and they were super excited.

"I really like Indiana Jones but never thought I’d have the opportunity to make a game. And you’ll hear about more of that in the future. But the team at MachineGames are the best team in the world to pull this game off and they’re doing a phenomenal job."

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4 Comments

JackHandy (on 29 June 2021)

The aliens comes back, abduct Indy and then sell him to Jabba's son (Jabba Jr.) who then freezes him in carbonite. Short Round finds out, learns the force by watching the original trilogy on VHS over and over again, sneaks aboard Jabba's ship via force projection, unfreezes Han... I mean Indy somehow, and then they kill everyone, take back the three sacred stones from the Temple of Doom that Jabba Jr. had stolen to power his ship and hop aboard the Millennium Falcon (which is being piloted by Sean Connery, of course) just as Jabba Jr's ship explodes like the Death Star at the end of A New Hope.

Cue credits.