INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK TRIVIA George Lucas originally wanted to call his daring archeologist "Indiana Smith," which Steven Spielberg thought sounded too mundane. Together, they settled on "Jones." Harrison Ford was cast as Indiana Jones less than three weeks before filming began. "Indiana" was the name of George Lucas's dog. The mysterious South American temple seen in the opening sequence is called the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors - and was a set at Elstree Studios outside London. The same jungle "creepers" used to adorn the Dagobah set in The Empire Strikes Back dressed the Temple set. More than 100 live tarantulas were flown in for the shoot. Ford had to outrun a 300-pound boulder lO times before Spielberg got the shot he wanted in the film's thrilling opening sequence. Kauai, Hawaii, substituted for South America in the opening sequence of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - but production designer Norman Reynolds and associate producer Robert Watts also scouted locations in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Mexico. The biplane Indy uses to escape from the warriors was located in Junction City, Oregon, and after filming was returned to its owner, Henry Strauch, who continued to use it to fly to work and back each day. Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan named Marion Ravenwood for his wife's grandmother (Marion) and a street off the winding Beverly Glen in Los Angeles (Ravenwood Court). The bar Marion owns in Nepal is called The Raven. Indiana Jones' fight with an Arab swordsman was memorably truncated because leading man Ford was suffering from abdominal pains and he wanted to use the bathroom. To shoot the scene on Sallah's roof, crew members had to remove 300 television antennas from homes in Kairouan, Tunisia. TV hadn't been invented in 1936. In a nod to Star Wars, a "hieroglyph" of R2-D2 and C-3PO can be spotted fleetingly on the wall of the Well of Souls. The submarine sequence was filmed in La Rochelle, France, because the full-size sub (built for a never-filmed version of Das Boot) was too large to be moved further than the French coast. Tunisia was used to "stand in" for Egypt because, as production designer Reynolds reasoned, neither the Pyramids nor the Sphinx was seen in the film. The Nazi "Flying Wing" was created to reflect Hitler's advanced state of aeronautics and was built using a Flying Wing prototype created by Northrop-Grumman. The canyon in which Indiana Jones confronts Belloq and Nazis carrying the Ark was the same location used to represent Tatooine in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Producer Frank Marshall said he "ended up not liking the monkey" who was an integral character in the plot. "He was impossible to work with," Marshall recalled. "Didn't listen to me at all." In 1989, one of Indiana Jones's kangaroo-hide bullwhip was sold at Christie's auction house in London for $43,000. --from the press kit of "The Adventures of Indiana Jones" The Complete DVD Movie Collection.