Hmm lets see how to make certain movie series perfect.
I think i know the answer for star wars and indiana jones keep Spilberg and Lucas as far away from the director's chair as possible.
Whatever taste Spielberg used to have he has lost. Hint he thinks Shia Lebouf is a wonderful actor and michael bay made fantastic transformers films. He also cried watching star wars episode III according to reports. Not as weepy as the fans who saw both star wars and indiana jones ruined in a 9 year period,lol.
I mean is is all possible that because Lucas next film is being directed by someone else and written by Someone else it might actually be good? Not that people are going to be lining up around the block to see a tuskegee airmen movie. I wonder if the Lucas team will take as many liberties with history as they did on the young indiana jones chronicles, or Lucas himself by erasing the past and replacing it in the form of the star wars trilogy.
From what i have read Lucas is a nightmare to have as your producer creative consultant if you are the director. He back seat directed indiana jones IV and spielberg and him though the best of friends butted heads over the direction of the movie. Spielberg wanted the old school gritty real looking stuff and Lucas wanted cartoon cgi fakery.
Plus both Ford and Spielberg were initially right and should have stuck to their belief that aliens in indiana jones was a bad idea, just like that the film should be shot old school. Inevitably they both caved to Lucas just to get the damn thing shot and over with. I personally would have had no new indiana jones film if aliens was the best idea they could come up with. It shows an incredible lack of imagination and is laughable to even consider an archeologist believing in aliens. They are supposed to be men of science and fact, and they study human civilization. Aliens have zero to do with either.
Lets get indy high on drugs so he sees non existent aleins or better yet lets include ghosts,lol.