![]() ![]() It was a defining moment in Columbus's career, to never again ignore his base instincts on a movie. A monument to Christopher Columbus looms. Columbus assumed Spielberg hired him for that last reason and when Columbus turned in the the draft, he was fired from the picture for all the above flaws in the script. Much of America has stopped celebrating Columbus Day, but the explorer remains revered in Italy. To Columbus, the script seemed lifeless and without energy and there was nothing of Columbus in it. Lucas dictated the screenplay to Columbus making him fearful of changing any of it, and that went against what Columbus had learned at film school. Columbus acted as Spielberg and Lucas's secretary on The Last Crusade for five days taking down all their ideas. He accepted and went to meet Spielberg and George Lucas, two men he was very intimidated by, even though he had worked with Spielberg three times. ![]() His voyages across the Atlantic paved the way for European colonization and exploitation of the Americas. Some people think of him as the 'discoverer' of America, but this is not strictly true. Spielberg then wanted Columbus to script Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), a big step for Columbus as a writer. Christopher Columbus was a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain. After having a great working relationship with Steven Spielberg on Gremlins (1984), Spielberg produced the next two films Columbus scripted, The Goonies (1985), based on an idea Spielberg had, and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) which was Columbus's idea, which altogether was two years working on those three films. ![]()
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