The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Indiana Jones feature films, the cast and crew frequently questioned creator George Lucas about the Indiana Jones character's life growing up. During the concept stages of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", Lucas and director Steven Spielberg decided to reveal some of this backstory in the film's opening scenes. For these scenes, Lucas chose River Phoenix to portray the character, as Harrison Ford believed that Phoenix most resembled Ford as a young man (Phoenix had appeared as Ford's son in "The Mosquito Coast"). This decision to reveal an adventure of a young Indiana led Lucas and crew to the idea
The World of Indiana Jones The World of Indiana Jones The World of Indiana Jones is a role-playing game published by West End Games, based on the Indiana Jones franchise. West End Games acquired the rights to publish an Indiana Jones role-playing game ten years after the publication of TSR's "The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game" (1984). A role-playing game based on the Indiana Jones movies was produced by West End Games (WEG) in 1994, called "The World of Indiana Jones". It was designed by Brian Sean Perry and was offered in a boxed set, and several adventure modules were written for it. Two