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Boam reworked the script to add the comedic bickering between Indy and Henry Jones Sr. (played by Sean Connery ), which became the heart of the film.

Titled Indiana Jones and the Monkey King , this draft featured Indy battling a ghost in Scotland and eventually searching for a "fountain of youth" in Africa. It included a sequence with a tank chase, which was one of the few elements kept for the final film.

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This version introduced the Holy Grail as the central artifact and established the father-son dynamic. However, it was considered too serious and lacked the humor of the finished movie.

And who's gonna come to save you, JUNIOR? Indiana Jones: DON'T call me Junior! Quotes - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - IMDb Boam reworked the script to add the comedic

And who's gonna come to save you, JUNIOR? Indiana Jones: DON'T call me Junior!

The final film was written by Jeffrey Boam , but several famous "drafts" by other writers helped shape the story: It included a sequence with a tank chase,

The final draft included some of the franchise's most memorable lines: "Don't call me Junior!"