Indy 5

[ALP]

A part of me fears Cowboys and Aliens is the closest we will get to an Indy 5.

Lucas is obviously open and Ford is willing, but Spielberg was already hestitant with #4... and he is so booked up it is ridiculous. Two Tin-Tin films- one in production, War Horse currently filming, Interstellar and Robopocylapse coming up, and Lincoln prepping to shoot next year.

 

[Webhead2006]

well spielberg could always drop a film or two or it goes to someone else. Who knows.

 

[scifiwolf]

Other than the Lincoln thing, what has he definitely got on on his plate? IMDb doesn't even have his Lincoln project listed, so I'm even less inclined to believe them than normal.

 

[steintym]

Not sure I'd be real interested in another aventure with Mutt and Marion. I really don't like the Mutt character but I could probably live with him as a sidekick. As far as Marion goes, I think a small part acknowledging she's around and still Indy's wife would be more than enough.

 

[CaptainCraig]

I think Cowboys & Aliens will show, yet again, that Ford is capable and able to handle himself in an action adventure film. It was interesting seeing him in a hat that wasn't a fedora though.

I hope they realize that now that the fires were restoked with Indy 4 that audiences still love Indy!! Get on your horse Lucas et al and get Indy 5 going!!!

 

[BritishChap007]

I think Daniel would make a pretty good Indy villain.

Been there. Done that.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltHT4FgdjZM

 

[Doctor Jones]

Interstellar won't be made for a long time. Same with Roboacolypse. I just have a feeling thta will be delayed like hell.

Lincoln is pretty much a sure thing. But there are no writers on this script yet so when the hell is this even happening?

 

[ALP]

It's not confirmed. At this point it is but a pipedream of George Lucas. Spielberg did not seem very happy or even excited over Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls and it took a long time for Lucas to get him on board. Watch the special features and even interviews and Spielberg keeps going on about how this is "George's story" and how he really did not want to do aliens and took a lot of convincing to come on board for it. I can't count the number of times he said in '08, "I wanted the end of Last Crusade to be the finale for Indy, that's why he's riding off in the sunset, it was suppose to be the end but George kept begging to do another."

Spielberg is the director and I like him but he just doesn't feel that interested. Remember he had nothing at all to do with the show, Lucas spent years making the Young Indy show and then came up with the story for Crystal Skulls. But can you really blame Spielberg? He has never ever been one to linger onto a series like Lucas. Spielberg does a quick sequel or two and that is it. And truthfully it's nothing really challenging to him as a filmmaker either.

Btw, how was the Young Indiana Jones adventures?

 

[Gold Samurai]

I think Daniel would make a pretty good Indy villain.

He would have been a seriously good Nazi with the blonde hair and blue eyes. Maybe Indy 5 can be like "Temple of Doom" and be a prequel.

 

[ALP]

He would have been a seriously good Nazi with the blonde hair and blue eyes. Maybe Indy 5 can be like "Temple of Doom" and be a prequel.

My preference is actually a prequel too. That way it can remain pretty fresh without having Shia and Marion, Indy series always switched up the supporting characters and sidekicks. However the audience may not get it, Crystal Skulls set so much up I imagine everyone would go "Where's Shia and his wife." And Shia was in the film to bring in the younger audience. It's not like Raiders/Temple where no constant was necessary between the two. But mostly, the reason that won't happen is just because Harry Ford is getting older. He is nearly 70 years old while Indy in Crystal Skulls was only 55 in cinema time. Had they filmed it right after Kingdom then it would be acceptable but no way are people going to buy him being about 70 in real life being in his early 50s in the film.

Even still, if they make another it still needs to be done really soon, they're only getting older. They don't have years to wait. I'm still hoping uncle George makes an Indy animated series.

 

[Asgard]

How about a Mutt and Short Round adventure?

Short Round probably wont speak in broken English which would kind of suck though.

 

[steintym]

I think a prequel would be a tough sell. As mentioned, I think the general audience would be wondering about the wife and kid. Plus, Ford is not getting any younger. The prequel would only buy them a couple of years (basically just before the events of KOCS). I had a hard time buying that Indy was 55, it's not like he could pull off 40 or something at this point.

Having said that, if it got rid of the Mutt character ...

 

[BritishChap007]

He would have been a seriously good Nazi with the blonde hair and blue eyes.

Daniel Craig made his on-screen acting debut in the TV episode "Young Indiana Jones and the Daredevils of the Desert."

He played a German officer in WWI named Schiller, the main baddie of the episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltHT4FgdjZ

So...he's already done the whole Indy villain thing.

 

[ALP]

I think a prequel would be a tough sell. As mentioned, I think the general audience would be wondering about the wife and kid. Plus, Ford is not getting any younger. The prequel would only buy them a couple of years (basically just before the events of KOCS). I had a hard time buying that Indy was 55, it's not like he could pull off 40 or something at this point.

Having said that, if it got rid of the Mutt character ...

Just checked. Ford will be 69 next year

 

[chaseter]

Daniel Craig made his on-screen acting debut in the TV episode "Young Indiana Jones and the Daredevils of the Desert."

He played a German officer in WWI named Schiller, the main baddie of the episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltHT4FgdjZ

So...he's already done the whole Indy villain thing.

That is like saying Ford is done with Indiana Jones because he has done the whole action/adventure archeologist role.

Just because Craig was in one episode doesn't mean he can't come back and be an awesomely evil Nazi officer.

 

[8wid]

Hey if this takes place in the 1960s it could have a macguffin for the sword of King Arthur and be tied to the JFK Assassination. Then call it Indiana Jones and the King of Camelot

 

[Infinity9999x]

I just did a marathon of the original 3 Indy films, and I have to say, after watching them all back to back, I really think KOTCS gets a little too much flak.

I'd still probably put it at the bottom of the lot...but it's a realllllll close tie with TOD. I like Temple, but it was just as ridiculously over the top as KOTCS. I think the only reason I prefer temple is simply because I think the monkey scene was dumber then anything they did in temple.

If they did decide to do another, I think I'd be interested. As long as they turn down the campiness a touch. I mean, Raiders is my favorite, and it has the least amount of camp by far (though it still has it's moments). TOD and KOTCS are both the campiest, and LC was just a touch more campy then Raiders, but still easily my second favorite in the series.

I'd like to see them take it back to a slightly more serious tone in the next, and heck, part of me just wants to see Ford in it one last time.

 

[steintym]

I actually thought there was significantly more campy stuff in LC than Temple. I really thought a lot of the stuff with Jones Sr and also Marcus was too silly for me.

Overall, I agree though. The campiness could be turned down a notch. I'd be interested in one more Indy adventure in any event.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

I just did a marathon of the original 3 Indy films, and I have to say, after watching them all back to back, I really think KOTCS gets a little too much flak.

I'd still probably put it at the bottom of the lot...but it's a realllllll close tie with TOD. I like Temple, but it was just as ridiculously over the top as KOTCS. I think the only reason I prefer temple is simply because I think the monkey scene was dumber then anything they did in temple.

If they did decide to do another, I think I'd be interested. As long as they turn down the campiness a touch. I mean, Raiders is my favorite, and it has the least amount of camp by far (though it still has it's moments). TOD and KOTCS are both the campiest, and LC was just a touch more campy then Raiders, but still easily my second favorite in the series.

I'd like to see them take it back to a slightly more serious tone in the next, and heck, part of me just wants to see Ford in it one last time.

thing is that TOD has a much darker tone than KOTCS, in addition that it is not as over the top. what killed it for KOTCS was the overly done CGI, the monkey scene, the whole alien mythology, and the sword fight scene between Shia and Blanchet

 

[Infinity9999x]

I actually thought there was significantly more campy stuff in LC than Temple. I really thought a lot of the stuff with Jones Sr and also Marcus was too silly for me.

Overall, I agree though. The campiness could be turned down a notch. I'd be interested in one more Indy adventure in any event.

The Marcus thing is really my biggest annoyance in LC. In Raiders you certainly don't get the feeling that he's the kind of man who would have gotten lost in his own museum, given the fact that in Raiders he says "I'd go after it myself were I five years younger," referring to the ark.

Thought I still think Temple is much more campy then LC. It, along with KOTCS has the most unbelievable survival moments in any Jones film that doesn't involve some kind of mysical/sci-fi element, in the opening plane jump sequence. And Willie just bugged the crap out of me.

Of course, I've never been a huge fan of Temple. I mean, when KOTCS first came out, I had to seriously consider which film I thought was better. Temple just barely beat it out because, while it's my least favorite of the original trilogy, it has too many iconic moments that I did enjoy as a kid.

 

[Infinity9999x]

thing is that TOD has a much darker tone than KOTCS, in addition that it is not as over the top. what killed it for KOTCS was the overly done CGI, the monkey scene, the whole alien mythology, and the sword fight scene between Shia and Blanchet

See, I see a lot of people reference the sword fight, but I honestly don't know why this is any different then any of the other over the top action scenes in the previous movies. I mean, honestly, it's not any more unrealistic or over the top then the cart sequence in Temple.

However, it was honestly the CGI that bugged me the most. The monkey scene was just really dumb. CGI monkeys and gophers and not things I think an Indy movie needs either. The Alien stuff I kind of go either way on. On one hand, I can see people's points when they say it's no more unrealistic then vodo priests who rip out hearts or the Nazi melting Ark, on the other, I felt it was just more of a tone thing.

I mean, okay, you want to go off of the SciFi feel of the 1950's. That's fine, but then they tried to combine it with the tone of the 1930's serials that the original movies were based off of. I kind of feel like you gotta go one way or the other.

I think I would have been okay with the Aliens if they had been left ambiguous at the end. The CGI Alien giving the stink eye to the evil Soviet villain was a bit much to me. Just have the temple collapse, and it's left up in the air if it was the aliens that made it collapse, or simply because it was an old ruin.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, it was more of the execution of it that was the problem. They could have just showed it shrouded in mist or something and you can only really see its eyes and outline of the body.

Mac dying also seemed unecessary to me.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Yeah, it was more of the execution of it that was the problem. They could have just showed it shrouded in mist or something and you can only really see its eyes and outline of the body.

Mac dying also seemed unecessary to me.

Agreed. Really, you fix the Alien ending with something like you said above, and take out the monkey bit, and I would have been fine. It would have put it on even footing with TOD for me, possibly even above, because while they didn't utilize Marion all that much in KOTC, she was still better then Willie.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i would have changed a few things with kingdom myself too.

 

[miisterwilson]

someone should please explain to me why there is so much hate over temple of doom? i love that effin movie
except the whole raft falling from the plane scene