Indiana Jones (franchise) and Lucas made a deal with Paramount Pictures for five Indiana Jones films. Spielberg and Lucas aimed to make "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" much darker, because of their personal moods following their respective break-ups and divorces. Lucas made the film a prequel as he did not want the Nazis to be the villains again. He had ideas regarding the Monkey King and a haunted castle, but eventually created the Sankara Stones. He hired Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz to write the script as he knew of their interest in Indian culture. The major scenes that were dropped
Indiana Jones (franchise) an interest in monetizing the franchise across Disney's various company divisions. Studio chairman Alan Horn has said that a fifth "Indiana Jones" film would not be ready for at least two to three years. In a May 2015 interview with "Vanity Fair", Kathleen Kennedy confirmed plans for a fifth film, stating another film "will one day be made inside this company. When it will happen, I'm not quite sure. We haven't started working on a script yet, but we are talking about it." In October 2015, Spielberg told Yahoo! Movies Ford will likely reprise his role in the fifth "Indiana