George Lucas talks Indiana Jones 4

And what's the status of the new Indiana Jones?

Lucas: "I talked to Steven [Spielber] while I was in Hawaii, and he said the script is done and he was going to send it to me when I got back, which was yesterday. It isn't on my desk today and he's coming up tomorrow to see Star Wars, so I assume he'll bring it with him."

You had an idea of what was planned before they wrote the script?

Lucas: "Oh yeah. I came up with this idea doing Young Indy, which has got to be about seven or eight years ago, and we've been through a number of scripts--six or eight scripts. Six scripts, two rewrites. So it's been down the path. There were certain aspects of it that Steven and Harrison [Ford] didn't like, and so we changed those, and then we laid out a version and it didn't come out the way it was supposed to, and then we did another version and it didn't come out, so we've just been going through this development hell, which happens once in a while. We'll see. When it comes out, it'll be different. Different, but the same."

And Harrison's staying in shape all this time, right, in case he has to take his shirt off?

Lucas: "No, he's plays an older person in this."

Is it true that there may be a younger person in this, poised to take over?

Lucas: "It's possible. Not really to take over."

You can read the complete interview here.

It seems that the movie will be following the continuing adventures of an aging Indiana Jones in the 1950s, the film finds Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption") assuming screenwriting duties this time around, delivering a script based on an original idea by Lucas.