incas, andeis the original story by indiana jones 4 :-)

 incas, andeis the original story by indiana jones 4 :-)

It sounds like you're thinking of the original, unproduced screenplays for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

Before Steven Spielberg and George Lucas settled on the 2008 film featuring Aliens/Interdimensionals in Akator (El Dorado) in the Amazon, the script went through several radically different iterations that heavily featured the Incas, the Andes, and South American mythology.

Frank Darabont’s Version: Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods (2003)

The most famous abandoned script was written by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption). It is widely considered by fans to be far superior to the final movie, and its entire setting revolves around the Andes and Inca lore:

• The Setting: Indy travels deep into Peru, exploring lost Inca ruins high in the Andes mountains.
  
  
• Inca/Quechua Lore: Rather than starting in the Amazon, the plot leans heavily into Andean mythology, ancient Inca burial grounds, and giant stone temples hidden in the clouds.
  
  
• The Plot: Ex-Nazis (led by a villain named Von Beck) and Soviet agents are racing Indy to find a magical Crystal Skull. Darabont treated the skull more like a mystical, cursed artifact reminiscent of the Ark of the Covenant, rather than leaning heavily into '50s B-movie alien tropes.
  
  
• Key Characters: Marion Ravenwood returned as a much tougher character, running a bar in South America, and Indy actually had a daughter instead of a son (Mutt Williams).
  
  

Earlier 1990s Drafts: Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars

Before Darabont, Screenwriter Jeb Stuart wrote a script in 1995 that also made heavy use of South America:

• The Andes Trek: Indy gets married to a character named Dr. Peggy Walton and ends up on a trek through the Andes to stop Russian agents.
  
  
• Inca Astronomy: The story tied ancient Inca sky-god mythology directly to extraterrestrial visitors, proposing that the Incas built their mountain fortresses as landing sites and observatories for ancient astronauts.
  
  

Why It Changed

George Lucas was obsessed with the 1950s "Alien B-Movie" theme, while Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford were hesitant about bringing aliens into an Indiana Jones movie. Darabont’s script was loved by Spielberg and Ford, but Lucas rejected it, leading to David Koepp being brought in to rewrite the story into Kingdom of the Crystal Skull—shifting the primary focus away from the high Andes and deep into the jungle.