Old fashioned adventure films.....

[superman-mos]

I have always loved old fashioned adventure films like old serials and pulp fiction. Indiana Jones was a great set of films that captured that magic and feeling but less face it Crystal Skull kinda sucked and Harrison isn't getting any younger. Shia is not an equal replacement period. So i got to wondering what could be Indys succesor....Uncharted has that feeling but jus doesn't seem like that movie is going to happen anytime soon. So I got looking for modern pulp books that had that magic. I then found Gabriel Hunt . He is a moden square jawed two fisted explorer who has his weapon of choice...a colt peacemaker that once belonged to Wyatt Earp. He doesn't belive in the use of too much technology and always gets the girl. He is funny but not in the smartass way and gets by on his wits and luck. I have only gotten through the first two books(six all together). This needs to happen

http://www.huntforadventure.com

http://www.jasonbennion.com/images/GabrielHunt.jpg

 

[superman-mos]

Oh come on.....does no one want to see a little more of these. Things like Doc Savage, Gabriel Hunt, Uncharted, Indy,Those good ol two fisted square jawed adventurers looking for lost cities and facing evil in all shapes and fashions.

 

[Karelia]

Doc Savage would be awesome.

 

[moviedoors]

Perhaps a Gunga Din remake. Or if you can find a way to make them less ethnically insensitive, a new Fu Manchu movie. If you want to see where Lucas and Spielberg got a lot of their Indy set pieces, check out Mask of Fu Manchu. It's racist ("you horrible yellow bastard!"), but I'll be damned if it isn't a lot of fun with some crazy stuff in it that only pre-Code Hollywood could have made.

 

[superman-mos]

I have never watched Fu manchu so I can't comment on that. I'll have to check those out. I'd even like to see a Romancing the stone remake. I love the original...the sequal not so much but the first is good.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I hear a lot remake and adaptation ideas for Indy's cinematic successor but the thing is one of the (many, MANY) reason's Indiana Jones movies are such a joy is that they're their own thing. They're not bound by having to stay faithful to some pre-existing source material and that mde them feel fresh and new.
The next big "adventure film" franchise should be just as original... a new character for a new age.