Philip Kaufman: The Filmmaker Behind Indy’s Pursuit of the Lost Ark
The official story behind Indiana Jones’s first big-screen adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, has mythic status. George Lucas famously recounted his idea for an intrepid archaeologist-adventurer to Steven Spielberg on a Hawaiian beach in 1977. Spielberg, who always wanted to make a globe-trotting adventure in the tradition of James Bond, accepted the offer to…
