From a rejected script for the third Indiana Jones movie, written by Chris Columbus (yes, that's his real name). A few general ideas did make it into The Last Crusade (e.g. there's a boat chase, and a tank fight, and an artifact of longevity, and Indiana Jones is the protagonist), but there the resemblance ends. This is a bit too weird and fantastical to work as an Indiana Jones story (insert your own quip about Kingdom of the Crystal Skull also fitting that description here) but so help me, I still think it's pretty cool, so I replaced him with an original character and attempted to turn the script into a novel. Then a decade or so later when I started work on it again, I changed the original character back to Indy for search engine optimization and stuff. The original character sucked anyway. Just pretend the whole thing was a dream or something.
Indiana Jones and the Monkey King
By C. Randall Nicholson
Based on the Screenplay by Chris Columbus
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Epilogue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Epilogue
