The series ended, so the script got put on the shelf, but we had done all this research on it. I thought “It had the additional element of Indiana Jones getting married – that was going to bring the father into it. Indy meets this amazing woman who deciphers codes and studies ancient writings. ” Lucas persisted and hired a screenwriter who composed a script titled Indiana Jones and the Saucermen. But I felt that this new angle didn’t’ really take advantage of what we had done before. “I didn’t like it at all,” said Ford. “There’d always been a mystical element in the stories about an archeologist who wrestles with the mysterious of past cultures.