Lucasfilm Games says it would be ‘super interesting’ to tell more Indiana Jones stories
The boss of Lucasfilm Games has said it would be “super interesting” to “tell more and more Indiana Jones stories”.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was released on Monday for Xbox Series X/S and PC and has been well received by critics, collecting 87 scores for both platforms on review aggregation site Metacritic.
The single-player, first-person game is set in 1937, between the events of the Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade films.
It sees players embark on a globetrotting adventure to stop sinister forces from uncovering and harnessing an ancient power connected to the Great Circle.
Developer MachineGames is currently working on story DLC for the game called The Order of the Giants, which will be released in 2025, as well as the PS5 version of the Great Circle, which is coming next spring.
In an interview with Variety, Lucasfilm Games vice president and general manager Douglas Reilly suggested there could be franchise potential in the partnership with MachineGames if the Great Circle is successful.
“Right now, we’re focused on getting this one to the public and getting to the DLC and making this as successful as we can,” Reilly said. “I think we’re always looking for great stories. And the good news is, there’s a lot of space in between the films where we could tell more and more Indiana Jones stories that I think would be super interesting.”
Reilly also touched on whether the Great Circle is considered canon to the wider Indiana Jones cinematic universe.
“So canon is such a complicated concept. It is an authentic story set between the two movies of Raiders and The Last Crusade,” he said. “We work closely with the studio and franchise management. So yes, it is meant to be an authentic Indiana Jones experience, in that sense.”
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