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Kryptonomic writes: "According to "this article, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery and contemplating teaming up for a fourth Indiana Jones movie possibly set in (surprise, surprise) Atlantis. It is rumoured that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg will produce and direct the movie, respectively." Listen? Can you here the music? Can ya?
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here the music? Maybe you should have spent some of that VA Linux paper fortune on a basic education.
But I think considering Ford's age, the appropriate time frame would be late 1940's or early 1950's. With the Nazi's gone, the perfect foil for him would be Mao and the People's Army. There's a lot of mysticism in China and Tibet for Lucas/Speilberg to exploit. They could bring in Ang Lee and a bunch of HK actors to really flesh this out. Indy and wire-fighting monks vs the Communist hoards.
I wonder if they'll find a great white pyramid with a bright red eye on it...
Aren't most of them dead? I'm pretty sure Sean Connery died sometime before he made that Alcatraz movie. Lucas and Speilberg have been dead for at least 10 years. Harrison Ford might be showing signs of life, though.
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If anyone were to take over the role as Indiana Jones, I'd vote for Brendan Frasier.
What you say! The guy from such hits as "Encino Man", "Dudley Do-Right", and "Blast From The Past". Forget it. Go watch him in "The Mummy" and compare that to the (acting) of Raiders. Brendan has the right amount of humor, action, and machismo to pull it off, and do it well. Not to mention he's probably the right age to do it as well.
Now you're just being MEAN. ;)
I really like Harrison but he is just too long in the tooth for the part. Think Roger Moore in his last few bonds (or his first few for that matter :). I'd go see a younger Indy, say in the period somewhere between young indian and raiders. That would put it in the 20's or so. Prime egyptology!
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was an excellent game. It really felt like a Indiana Jones movie! I hope they make this happen, I've been wishing for it for a long time.
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- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Steven Spielberg, Director and George Lucas, Executive Producer for ALL 3 films!!Not so hard to imagine...!
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2) Does anyone know how closely or loosely tied to that game's plot the movie will be?
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Turnabout being fair play and all that, I'd say Alec Baldwin should take over as Indy. :)
Indiana Jones and the Grand Inquisitor?
I have a co-worker who thinks that Tomb Raider was similar to the Indy movies, but the Indy movies at least made sense. None of the stupid stuff like finding *both* pieces of a triangle to stop the bad guys when merely destroying one half would solve the problem.
His father probably served in a similar capacity for England.
Some Hollywood makeup magic could condense that 12 years to 4 to 6.
A good script could have Indy and Dad racing against the Allied advance and the Nazi scramble for survival, escape, and Swiss bank accounts in the last months of the war to get to the spear they stabbed Jesus in the side with or some Norse mythology artifact to keep Adolf from using it to complete some supernatural A-bomb strength super weapon.
Maybe while they're at it they could single (or double)-handedly prevent the Alpine Redoubt that Ike feared from coming into existance.
And of course the film could throw in some foreshadowing of the cold war to come.
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Indiana Jones and the CGI character from Hell :-)
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As many as their menu provides assaults on our appetites?
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In which case the destruction and disappearance of Atlantis was a mercy from
Divine Providence.
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And no jar-jar. Although seeing the horrible things that get done to people in the Indiana Jones movies, maybe having a Jar-jar sacrifice would be a good idea.
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pushing his ancient dad in an Iron lung ? Somehow it looses its' appeal. Unless it is Indy staying at home and sending a younger assistant into the wilds to find stuff I am not buying it...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
I don't understand your sig. It's like saying 'Louis Gehrig died of Louis Gehrig's disease. Now that's ironic.' DUH.
The suspect in the Miranda case, IIRC, didn't know he had the right to remain silent. He thought he had to answer police questions without a lawyer. His confession was thus thrown out, and the 'Miranda Rights' were invented, things police have to inform a suspect before questioning.
Or are you against informing people of their rights in the first place? It seems a little hypocritical, as you clearly know these rights, to think it's a good idea to not tell others.
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Anyway, Altanta doesn't actually exist as a city, it's just an airport and a traffic jam (tearing up part of I-285 this tomorrow, w00t), with about 100 miles of suburbs. ;)
What kind of city has this kind of traffic, seriously? We get friggin reverse rush hour, people backing up leaving the city in the morning and coming in in the afternoon, on SR 400. What the hell is up with that?
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If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Of course, not really, because the suspect would have had the rights without the ruling. The ruling just made the police tell him.
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If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Ah, yes, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg are working in secret on the movie. Riiiight.
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However, a spokeswoman at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles told BBC News Online: "These rumours come round every couple of months. It's idle gossip."
looks like a slow news day for slashdot and the BBC, both.
next, you'll be posting an article about Apple being bought by Disney or some such...
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excuse me, but we atlantans don't take kindly to idle talk of being bombed or enslaved... we've had some trouble with that in the past, and it's not nice to rile up those old feelings..
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the olympic park bombing is what i was referring to, specifically, but being burned to the ground is another thing i had in mind
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Just don't let the Nazis test the oricalcum machine on you, Indy!
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It's snakes, dumbass. He hates snakes.
mmm...lucas personally pulled in $400 million after everyone and everything was paid off for TPM. I think in the mind of Lucas, he did just fine.
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The only problem is that like the Bond films, Connery ruled it and was the best for the style of character, and it wasn't until Pierce Brosnan that he had a similar screen presence (or whatever it's called).
I mean, look at the Indiana Jones character: it's basically Han Solo in a different era, and both characters are basically Ford's crowning parts. It would be very very hard to find an actor with the suitable hapless/cleverish/smart-but-not-irritatingly smarmy that is what all you get from Hollywood these days.
The best thing would be to find some unknown actor, and for him to be Indy's kid from say between him and the chick from the Raiders of the Lost Ark. But if you see how they brutalise good stories by putting e.g., Di Caprio in the Beach (the guy was meant to be British for christs sake, and they ommitted one of the MAIN characters from the book).
But yeah it would be cool if Indy was "timeless" like 007.
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Yeah, I remember the rumour when that game was new.
In fact, it was the first thing I thought of upon reading this story. I'll just file it in the "unlikely" pile in my brain.
It would be cool to see that story in something other than 320x240, though.
Actually, I *loved* the interface. I spent more money in my Windows days on Lucasarts games than anything else. Every once in awhile, I attempt to play those games under DOSemu as I no longer have any trace of MS on my hard drive...
I'm totally dissapointed that Loki releases nothing like it. There are way too many FPS games these days.
I say this as an owner of 7 Loki games, too.
He means the PC adventure game from LucasArts, btw. In which case I think he would want it to be based on Atlantis since that game was really great :).
Indiana Jones meets Star Wars meets James Bond meets E.T!!! Imagine the hilarious wacky antics that will ensue!
It has been a rumor that IJ4 would be in Atlantis since LEC released Fate of Atlantis which still is the greates Indiana Jones computer game made. Also, I've heard the hold-up isn't Lucas, but Paramount this time. Paramount owns the rights to the IJ films, and has been bugging Lucas/Spielburg/et al for years, but this year things changed as Tomb Raider and MI2 are much bigger (and "cheaper") franchises for Paramount.
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And, according to IMDB, the hopes aren't very high for this sequel.
IANAL, but I play one on
The hopes don't seem so high from other sources... According to IMDB, the hopes aren't very high for this sequel. Also, according to the article from this BBC story, this is a very common rumor that pops up every few months.
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Er, wasn't that Winston Smith who hated rats?
[ot]: I was in Borders the other day, and the clerk who sold me my book had a nametag which said "Winston Smith". I asked him if it was real, and he said it wasn't. Still, weird.
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This has to be the one IJ adventure that was most like old-Hollywood serials from the 30's and 40's - it even had the "look" (albeit in color) and the "campiness" reminiscent of that time.
Of course, I also liked "The Mummy" (haven't seen "Returns" yet)...
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Played and finished the game, it was a few hours of entertainment, but a hell of a yawner. Why not come up with a decent plot? Or let the dead horse alone.
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Indiana Jones and the Broken Hip of Doom.
Christ the guy's already 58 years old. By the time they start filming he'd be over 60!
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I read the previous story before this one, and I immediately thought of the Space Shuttle Atlantis as the setting. I know; I know. It's the space station, but still the stream of conciousness deal was a little weird. In fact, now I can hardly picture Indy in near weightlessness.
From what I remember, the Fate of Atlantis game was based on a completed screenplay for the fourth Indy film. However Harrison didn't like it, and refused to make the film until whatever he didn't like was fixed. By now, I doubt much of the original storyline has survived, though I hope Sofia's channeling is still in it ;o)
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I had a chance to see the first one a couple months ago, and I was really surprised. I'd forgotten what a truly great action movie it was. Despite the fact that the action doesn't really let up, it never gets too much, as in a Indy wannabe like The Mummy Returns. The second and third were not as great overall, but both had some fun and exciting parts.
I remember an interview with George Lucas, when he was making the Young Indian Jones TV series. He said that people were accusing him of milking the franchise for money. He said if he wanted to do that, he'd just make another sequel. Maybe Phantom Menace didn't do so well at the box office?
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This makes perfect sense as the origin of the legend of Atlantis and corresponds to some work that has been conducted by The Institute of Metahistory placing Atlantis near both Cornwall and Brittany.
In all likelihood, there was, at the end of the last iceage, a northward migration out of the, then, grasslands of North Africa -- a mirgration that took two routes:
- Along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
- Across the Straights of Gibralter.
This gave rise to two disparate populations that interacted across Europe somewhat, and came into conflict from time to time, particularly if, as is hypothesized in some quarters, there was a high degree of Rh-negative blood in the Atlantean population (still visible among the mountain Berbers, Basque, Welsh, Scots, Irish and some older Norse) causing a particularly nasty form of hybrid infertility when the Rh+ eastern males mated with the western females (first child ok with subsequent children frequently damaged or dead at birth). Until immune-suppression shots became available in the 1970s, this Rh-incompatiblity remained a major medical problem among the Scotch-Irish in the United States.Individuals with Rh- allele apparently left from the Holocene migration out of north Africa along the western coast of Europe (possibly aka the 'Vanir' of Norse mythology):
- Highland Morrocans 40%
- Highland Basques 32%
- Scotland and Ireland 25%
- Norwegian islands 17%
- Laps 7%
The Rh+ "Norse" tribes (aka 'Aesir') arrived shortly thereafter via over-land routes that were slower than the coastal routes for post-iceage migration.Previously considered somewhat outlandish, these theories concerning early civilization in France, Rh-negative populations, pre-Celtic Norse-Scots and Holocene Atlantic coastal migrations are now receiving independent confirmation from DNA analysis of some of the populations in question.
Gene studies are now bearing out theories of this relationship among pre-Indoeuropean peoples along the Atlantic coast of Europe and north Africa:
From the Daily Telegraph
Basques are brothers of the Celts
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Celts, Basques and Picts - Medieval Life & The Hundred Years War WELSH and Irishmen are genetic blood-brothers of the Basque people, according to a study published today.
The findings provide the first direct evidence of a close relationship between the people thought of as Celts and the Basques. The Basques are thought to be the closest descendants of the Palaeolithic people who established the first settlements in Britain more than 10,000 years ago.
The evidence of a link is in a study by James Wilson and Prof David Goldstein of University College London, with colleagues at Oxford University and the University of California, Davis. The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The team looked for similarities between the Y chromosomes - only carried by men - of 88 "Celtic fringe" individuals from Anglesey, North Wales, 146 from Ireland with Irish Gaelic surnames, and 50 Basques, revealing "remarkable" similarities.
The Celts carry the early Y chromosome, said the study, which provides the first clear evidence of a close relationship in the paternal heritage of Basque and Celtic speaking populations. "They were statistically indistinguishable," said Prof Goldstein.
Seastead this.
"Indiana Jones 4: The Calgary Sun talked with Steven Spielberg's producing partner Kathleen Kennedy who had some disheartening news for those eager to see a fourth Indy film: 'The truth is there has been a lot of discussion amongst all of us connected with the film but to be honest there is no script because there isn't even a writer in place. It sounds like a slam dunk to do another Indiana Jones but you have to get everyone available and committed and then you have to get a screenplay that excites everyone. In reality that could probably take years'." --http://www.darkhorizons.com/news9/010703.htm (Dark Horizons; 7/3/2001)
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excuse me, but we atlantans don't take kindly to idle talk of being bombed or enslaved...
Oh, but having commercials with McDonald's drive-through employees "talking" in that sacred tongue doesn't bother your image as an Atlantan, at all.
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It is a little worrying that this might just end up like a cheap Tomb Raider knock off (I am well aware where Tomb Raider's main influence came from).
There was another Indy Game called The Infernal Machine. I never played it, but it looked like it was trying really hard to be a Tomb Raider, in both it's environments and gameplay style.
I think Lucasarts should have stuck with the point and click thing, and I certainly hope that Spielberg sticks with the themes and mood of the old films.
She had to stuff her bra. It was all over the news.
Aint it cool news was reporting on the possiblities of a 4th Indy movie for over 3 years now. And As of 2 years ago There were rumors of Film Crews scoping out underwater scenes for a possible indy movie. And back then the rumor was still atlantis. Rumors rumors rumors. Believe it when Lucas or Spielberg/speilberg errrr.... Announce it.
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I think the "Last Crusade" the title of that movie refers to is the last crusade by the English, oh, what did they call them, oh, yeah. Crusaders. As in, people who went on a crusade. Yes, I know many people have read it as the last crusade of the Jones', but there's more than one way to look at it. As has been said before, though, this is probably just smoke, anyway.
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He's made you feel guilty if you're German, American, white, human or even just 'orga' (for those who watched AI). What guilt trip could misanthropist Spielberg take you on in this movie? It's not like the Americans bombed the Atlantans, or the Atlantans were made slaves, or the Atlantans oppress teddy bears. My, my. Spielberg has a tough problem to solve here. But with the help of that genius scriptwriter George Lucas I'm sure they'll figure it out.
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you call the temple of doom good? I think I spent most of the time cringing from the bad acting.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
...but I'm busy trying to figure what anime this was ripped-off from.
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It's not news until it hits IMDB. Until then, it's just vaporcinema.
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This was also in some stupid DVD production newsletter I received a few years ago). Wish I had the stuff to back it up though.
But hey things change, and early DVDs did suck. Artifacts abound. That also changed when someone who actually cared about the movie (sometimes the actual producers), made sure that it was looking good.
whatever, i just woke up
That is your ass, and this over here is your elbow, and NO they ARE NOT the same thing.
I actually meant to say:
"his sound man described one of the main reasons that he never went to DVD was that the VISUAL quality sucked"
like i said before, i just woke up
That is your ass, and this over here is your elbow, and NO they ARE NOT the same thing.
That's 320x200. World of a difference (320x240 has a full 20% more pixels than 320x200!).
Interestingly, the actual game area, if you subtract the area used for the verb-and-inventory UI, was far smaller: 320x143. That works out to a visual aspect ratio of 1.86:1, which is suspiciously close to 1.85:1, a standard aspect ratio used in many movies today. Fate of Atlantis was a bona-fide widescreen game, folks!
For those keeping score, that's yet another reason to consider the classic pre-dumbed-down SCUMM interface the pinnacle of adventure game UI design.
BTW, in case anyone was wondering, the Indy movies were all shot using Panavision, an anamorphic process that produces an even wider aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
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You're correct. There were eight Crusades, all in all. The one depicted in the movie would have been the ninth (and thus the last).
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Actually, I *loved* the interface.
As did I! Perhaps you misunderstood my original post. I consider the Fate interface the pinnacle of adventure game UI design. This was before LucasArts decided to dumb things down (Sam and Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle, The Dig, and so on).
The on-screen non-dismissable interface used in Fate and other classic LucasArts adventures may have taken up a significant amount of screen real estate, but it had the happy advantage of making the play area "widescreen", which made for a more cinematic experience. Clearly, this was intentional, because the aspect ratio was defined in a precise way, by dividing the screen at literally an odd point.
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Straight from the horses mouth: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news9/010703.htm
Indiana Jones 4: The Calgary Sun talked with Steven Spielberg's producing partner Kathleen Kennedy who had some disheartening news for those eager to see a fourth Indy film: "The truth is there has been a lot of discussion amongst all of us connected with the film but to be honest there is no script because there isn't even a writer in place. It sounds like a slam dunk to do another Indiana Jones but you have to get everyone available and committed and then you have to get a screenplay that excites everyone. In reality that could probably take years".
Hollywood is incapable of coming up with 'original' work for the same reasons 'pop' music never has truly innovative artists. They are driving for the masses.
It _is_ pop, you know.
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I dunno about this. I've recently been watching a bunch of SNL Celebrity jeopardy episodes that I downloaded, and i don't know if I can take anything with Sean Connery in it seriously anymore. Buckfutter!
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
OK, I know Ford is getting older, but 60ish is not THAT old - it could still be done.
However, if they wanted to spend some time doing something to make a little money, I'd bet it would be cheaper to release the previous three on DVD.
You've got one confirmed purchaser right here.
The little guy just ain't getting it, is he?
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More than that - you have to drink it EVERY DAY according to the novization. The reason why the knight had grown so old was from the times where his faith wavered, and he failed to drink from the Grail, which caused normal aging to resume.
I don't think that part of the expliation made it into the movie - for some reason, the book adaptation managed to stick in my head better than the movie (which is saying something - I thought the movie was great!)
As for Henry Jones, Jr (Indy) - if ya ever get the chance, check out the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He didn't age well at all, and is one seriously grumpy bastard.
(Just noticed how bad my spelling sucked - the heck with the spell checker today...)
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Ya know... it is possible to be older than 29, and still walk and run. 'Sides, if you yunguns get too uppity, the oldsters can just shoot ya.
Seriously, the revulsion (fear?) of the young for the old is getting to me a bit as I get older myself. It is possible to date, use computers, run, and even have an adventure or two after you turn thirty.
Was the title "Indiana Jones, and The Last Crusade". It was like a death certificate. My hopes for a sequel were snuffed. But somehow I've always dreamed that George Lucas and Spielberg would create another. . .
I only hope that Lucas doesn't suck like Episode I, and Spielburg lays off the smack ala A.I.
Perhaps Hollywood could concentrate on one or two original movies this decade?
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What is with all the "atlantis" hype lately??
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Its kind of funny how every year there is a big hype in the movies about something or other, one year is was dinosaurs, then tornadoes, then meteors wiping out the earth, and then come the cheaper productions usually a year or so later which are based on one of these particular themes.
Sometimes it can make you wonder about the creativity in Hollywood, I mean take a look at Tomb Raider, even it had something to do with Atlantis...
Oh, well. A movie with Sean Connery and Harrison Ford can't be all that bad, their screen presence alone usually makes up for most of the flaws in the the theme or plot.
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I saw the film several months ago and realized how truly awful it is. I think the high point of hilarity is the one 70 mm shot they took of Ford on the rope bridge at the end... it sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the 35 mm scenes that surround it. Not to disparage the other two movies (which were quite good), but Temple of Doom could be repackaged by the MST3K folks for the next box set and some people might actually be able to enjoy it!
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Oh great, another Indiana Jones movie, that's just terrific. Oh wait, that is good news! I suppose I've been reading too much /. lately. :)
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The fact that I read about Indiana Jones 4 about six months ago here (great source for IJ4 news, too), and /. refused the article when I tried to pass it through. What? Suddenly the quickest source for movie news is irreputable because no one else knows what they know? You don't trust their information but it's right anyway? And I thought it was just about me...
YES!!! All I can say is, YES!!!!!. Now all we need is a 4th Back to the Future, which through rumors I hear may be coming.. unfortunately no M. J. Fox :(, and the rest of the Unbreakable trilogy and I will die a happy man.
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Actually, I was just whistling the theme before I loaded /. I wonder what will happen if I whistle the Titanic theme while visiting /. That would be an interesting sequel...
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but i will be there to plunk down my hard earned cash to see it.
And all this time I thought he wouldn't release movies on DVD because of DeCSS and how poor it was making everyone in Hollywood.
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Thanks for enlightening me.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
Yup, it's Indiana's father (Sean Connery) who hates rats. When they are in the catacombs of Venice to find a tomb the girl says that Indy's father would have been completely excited to be here, at which Indy responds that he couldn't have come here, "he hates rats" (that's from the top of my head and I haven't seen the movies for ages and I only saw them in French up to now).
BTW, can you "here" the music: "Ta tada taaa ta tada, ta tada taaa, ta tada ta ta, ta tada ta, ta tada, ta tada-ta tada-ta tada-ta tada, da ta tada"
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The game also featured a female archaeologist who was much more akin to Indy than any of his female companions in the Indiana Jones movies. Her character, strong, willful, independant, was analogous to the new "Bond Girls" from the recent James Bond movies. She was also interesting, and quite sexy at times, especially for a 80x32 pixel hand-drawn 256-color character with limited animation and no voice except for text which would appear over her head.
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I don't know why though, cause everyone knows that the perfect movie series is three.
Look at Rocky I, III, and IV (I don't count II and V cause II was really a remake and V blew).
Star Wars (the original Trilogy){die Jar-Jar}
and up until now, Indiana Jones....
Of course don't get me wrong, Jurasic Park II blew, and III will blow, but that was because they weren't planned.
Also, we don't know if the Matrix trilogy will continue to be good...
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I remeber reading about the new Indiana Jones movie 6 or 7 years ago. All the involved parties had stated that they wanted to do it and it was "in the works." But we will not see it any time soon as Ford only does one film a year and he is booked for the next two years. I would love to see it, as the first 3 were wonderful, but I no longer have my hopes up.
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Do the words "Fate of Atlantis" mean anything to anyone?
...I'll procrastinate tomorrow...
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Don't you mean I hate snakes...?
I mean come on we are talking about Indy...
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Before the video game in 1992, there was Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis in 1991.
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I've been hearing various news about a new Indiana Jones movie since before the last Star Wars came out. The trouble was, and I imagine continues to be, that George, Steven, and Harrison don't have a simultaneuous opening in their schedules for quite a while.
As for the story, they don't know for sure yet. At least that's what Rick McCallum (producer of Episode I & II, Young Indy, etc) said in the last issue of Star Wars Insider (well, the last one I saw at any rate). Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is already a PC game (and a very good one at that), so I doubt they would do an Atlantis-based story, especially with the recent Disneyfication of that.
I did see in an interview on the Lucasarts web site a long time ago that there was an alternate story that had been worked up for the game that eventually became Indiana Jones & The Infernal Machine, but the people in charge of that game at Lucasarts were told to back off of that story because it was along similar lines to one that was being considered for a possible Indy IV.
Somehow I doubt we'll see Indy IV until after all the Star Wars prequels have come out though--George is just too busy.
A new Indy movie has been on the cards for years. I have the boxed VHS set that was released a couple of years back that had interviews with Lucas, Spielberg and Ford. In them they discussed the possibility of a fourth movie. They were all keen to do it, but they wanted to wait until Lucas could write a script worth filming. And since Lucas is busy on Star Wars, it might be a while before that happens.
A great place to go for rumors and news about the film industry is Fetal Films. Their notes for Indy 4 (dated May 7) project that it may come out in Summer 2003.
Note that these are merely rumors.
To conceal the age of the actors. Will Indy turn in his whip for a cane? I guess Connery will have to turn in his cane for a walker.
Maybe the villains in this installment can all be members of the Rolling Stones...
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hey, at least it's not in Deutsch :-0
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RTFJ.
*Sigh* It was nice to see my two favorite actors ever in one film together anyway.
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Mind you, I did like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade the best. :-) The interaction between father and son worked brilliantly in this movie; Sean Connery should have been nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, IMHO.
However, note that most of them only came out within the last 12 months or so.
Spielberg alienated quite a lot of DVD fans for a number of years because he refused to let any of the movies he directed be available on DVD because until recently the only surround-sound encoding available on DVD discs was Dolby Digital 5.1 (I believe Spielberg had a stake in DTS).
Now that Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace is coming out on DVD, I think you will see the Indiana Jones movies on DVD within a year or so.
If I remember correctly, one reason why Spielberg wouldn't release the movies he directed on DVD format for some years was the fact that they lacked DTS surround sound encoding. Now that DTS-encoded DVD discs are commonly available (and most good-quality A/V-receivers have DTS decoding built-in), you're starting to see Spielberg-directed movies on DVD.
Is there anyone else out there that thinks maybe, just maybe, this new adventure was brought on by the new tomb raider movie?
I mean i was sitting there watching that thinking, geez this is a lot like an indiana jones movie... well, actually i was thinking, gee are those things real? but AFTER the movie i couldnt help but relate it to an indiana jones flick!
Given a decent plot, it could work... i for one am a fan of the old style indiana jones movies... but these two old guys? i mean Connery is way over his limit... and Ford is getting close...
Maybe Indiana Jones movies could start getting like 007? Just make a new movie with a new Indiana Jones star... People will say, but Indiana Jones is supposed to be an old person now? Well geez, shouldnt James Bond be like 104?
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This is the only article worthy of being on Slashdot in the last 3 days.
Except unlike the "Star Wars" franchise, each of the Indy movies is actually good.
Yep, but this one is worse. At least episode 1 could give us a new cast, but Ford isn't getting any younger. I'm picturing a fat old mess of an Indiana Jones, done up in a tuxedo in some Las Vegas dressing room... Gimme a stage, where this bull can rage...
I have big fears this will turn out badly.
Anyway, here are my top 10 picks for the title of the new movie:
10. Indiana Jones and the Quest for Fiber
9. Indiana Jones and Siegfried and Roy
8. Indiana Jones Has Fallen and He Can't Get Up
7. Indiana Jones and the Planet of the Apes
6. Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Indiana Jones
5. Indiana Jones and the Fat Paycheck
4. Indiana Jones and the Stone of Kidneys
3. Indiana Jones and the Kids Today, Oy! They Call That Music? What.
2. Indiana Jones and the Lost Erection
1. Grumpy Old Indiana Jones
Good luck pulling this one off.
Kill, Tux, kill!
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this site in connection with this story but Coming Attractions (http://www.corona.ba.ca) has a running tally for updates on this film since the beginning of 1999 which is far more accurate the NY Post.
And no jar-jar.
AND NO KATE CAPSHAW!! God, the Temple of Doom was hard to sit through... Ugh!
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from the i-hate-rats dept.
I know it's been 12 years since the last movie, but come on, it's snakes he hates, not rats. His father is the one who hated rats.
Maybe CmdrTaco hates rats, too?
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So Slashdot is printing a piece from the BBC that reprints a story from the NY Post, which sums up some great Web rumours. Very accurate and logical.
You're right. ;) I did seem to recall drinking it regularly as being something important though, but I don't have the movie anymore (damn the lack of Indiana Jones DVDs!) so I can't watch it to double check. [sigh] Thanks for pointing that out though, you're completely correct.
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If you re-watch the flic you'll see that in order for the water to be effective, you have to keep drinking it over time, lest the effects wear off. As it so happens, Indie's dad got to drink it (and have it poured on him) once, and he never actually got to sip it or anything.
Thus, Indiana Jones is fully mortal, and his dad's small drink probably didn't buy him enough years to even matter or look out of place.
All I know about Bush is I had a good job when Clinton was president.
My one and only hope for this movie, should it be made, is that they actually focus on the characters and the script, rather than glittery effects.
I guess SW1 just left a bad taste in my mouth...
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Lucas is making it, can't watch it on my DVD player
oh wait, yes i can, that's what we've got China for
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I tell you, I can only suspend disbelief so far. "Whatsh that junior? You'll have to shpeak up. Thish hearing aid ish no good."
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Common.
A really annoying trend in advertising is the commercial that is for two things at once. You can tell immediately if a movie is going to be a Big Dumb Movie if a fast food chain starts promoting it in commercials that are both for the chain and the movie.
"I speak Atlantean." Christ.
Indiana Jones and the Quest for Geritol.
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Okay. The new Indy Jones movie will star Freddie Prinze Jr. as Indiana and Matthew Lillard as Marcus Brodie. Happy now?
In the second film, Indy went looking for a magic potato, fought the Thuggees and killed almost all of them.
In the third film, Indy went looking for the holy grail and killed Nazis again.
Now, in the fourth film, Indy can go find a lost underground continent and kill all the... Gungans!
12 years have passed since "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", which was set in the very late thirties. So will the new movie take place during the early cold war?
Seriously, Harrison Ford will be 60 (!) next year. Maybe he should be cast as the father of some younger Indy.
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Indy in Atlantis isn't a reaction to recent interest in the subject due to Disney's well crafted (if incredibly stupid) adventure pic. It's been kicked around since Last Crusade...in fact, there was a LucasArts SCUMM(tm) game that stuck Indy in a search for atlantis...it might have been his best. At least the puzzles were intriguing and different, unlike those in the SCUMM Last Crusade. There was also a Fate of Atlantis novelization.
As for Harrison being too old, it's been my understanding that he's supposed to play an aging IJ in the film, one who's starting to get a bit quirky but still able to throw down with whoever's in his path. I could see it being set easily in the mid 50s or early 60s, maybe with some serious cold war overtones (hell, get Tom Clancy to write it for a real Battle of the Adventure Flick Stars).
Anyway, as long as he isn't playing young Han Solo in the third Star Wars pic, I think it's great to hear about Ford doing adventure. After all, he was one of the heros of my youth...hell, it's he and Rick Hunter that inspired me to grow this constantly scruffy hairdo.
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Agreed. I have read quotes as old as 5 years ago, that Spielberg, Lucas, Ford and Connery all want to do the movie. They have been in reputable magazines, newspapers and trade publications. This one has less meat than all but the reoccuring aintitcoolnews.com news flashes.
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first was the game, then will (?) be the movie... Game is one of the best adventure games out there, but the movie... I don't know yet :)
Great, does this mean they are going to rip off Nadia as well?
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He looked old enough to play Sean Connery's father.
No. But I can see the colors that taste like music and feel like the sent of roses. Is that good enough?
This has been kicked around for years.
We've already heard every rumor under the sun, from M. Night Shyamalan writiting the script, to even Lucas himself directing it (after Episode III of course), and even that it would be released mid-2002 (too late!).
Then when "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" came out, the rumors all focused on the game developers, and how they (falsely) hinted that the next Indy movie went beyond all the Nazi-bashing stuff from the first three (aw...killing Nazis was so much fun though...), and that it might take place in an African/Tropical climate, or even have something to do with the Cold War with Russia.
But let's look at it this way, Speilberg and Ford are most likely booked for the next few years, and Lucas will almost definately be busy until 2005 or so. Maybe THEN the three of them will have enough time to write a decent script, get old Connery back (assuming he doesn't get arrested for shooting Lorn Michaels before then), and actually make this movie.
So, I don't believe this is "newsworthy", especially since a PR Rep at Paramount put it so perfectly:
"These rumours come round every couple of months. It's idle gossip."
That british story made a point of converting their pounds to USD.
Obviously someone who cares about reaching a broad audience.
Wouldn't it be great if there were an XML-based web which could read the currency tag and the USD attribute and convert it into the user's home currency using XSL? The technology exists, all we need are the standards and the people to start using them.
Oh well, just another pipe dream
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No, no, no. You've got it all wrong. You're totally immortal, but you can't cross the big seal carved into the floor of the temple. If you do the immortality goes away, and you can't drink from the grail on the other side of the seal because if you try to take it over there, the whole temple collapses on your head, as that one Nazi lady learned.
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Yea, too bad it was directed by Steven Speilberg. Although it did kinda suck...But then again, you can't always make great movies.
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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.
I know it's been 12 years since the last movie, but come on, it's snakes he hates, not rats. His father is the one who hated rats.
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In The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones most episodes began with Indy recalling his history as an old, and I mean OLD, man. One-eyed, lot of scars. But I must admit, I liked the series, especially adventures during the First World War (Indy in Belgian military intelligence) and then Prohibition when Indy and Elliot Ness were in Chicago...
Something in order of 'Raise the Titanic' based on Clive Cussler's book? Hohumm... Done and flopped out of memory of people, I think?
"It is rumoured that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg will produce and direct the movie, respectively."
Just be glad it's not the other way around, otherwise the people of Atlantis might be Jar Jar's cousins.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
...John Williams??? Even if the movie is made, it will be in no way complete unless the music is composed and musicians directed by the great John Williams. He created the music for the first three Indy movies. The scores for all four Star Wars films, Jaws, Superman, Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and many, many others have all been composed by Williams. I will be sorely disappointed if Lucas and Spielberg leave him out.
Thirty is one thing. He's damn near twice that now! Of course, Connery was of "above average" age when he did Never Say Never Again and I loved that movie. Go for guys, you'll make money even if I have to see the 20 million time @ $7 per show. :-)
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Would be a little one sided me thinks.
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In this installment, Indiana has a cane and instead of almost losing his hat he almost breaks his hip multiple times.
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...the classic Lucasarts adventure game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis?
I hope so. I loved the part where Indy dug out of that cave he was trapped in using only a hard plank. In fact, he got a lot of usage out of that plank, if I remember correctly.
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It completely sucked. Remember IJ & The Temple of Doom? It was written and directed by George Lucas, and IMO, it was terrible. Lucas just doesn't have style.
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"These rumours come round every couple of months. It's idle gossip."
I whole-heartedly agree. It seems like the rumor mill around series that have a big popularity with us geeks seems to churn out a new one every other week.
Surely everyone remembers the rumor that Lucas was going to spin-off the Indy series with Natalie Portman as a daughter or relative of Indy.
Or how about the myriad of rumors surrounding the Terminator sequel? Chyna as a female terminator? A movie set entirely in the future?
Of course, none of these compare to the stream of "insider information" regarding the Star Wars movies.
That said, the fact that this story seems to reference Ford, Connery, Lucas and Spielberg does inspire a bit more confidence than the usual " an inside source tells us...".
You know... I would probably dig another indiana jones flick (not that i was seriously enthralled with the last installment, but at least the chinese kid wasn't there) but I'm finding myself missing eighties movies. :(
To explain... it just seems to me like in the 80's you had all these movies coming out, and the budgets, while big, weren't so astronomical that you had to guarantee a certain amount of mass acceptance to not have to file chapter 13.
I've heard stories that spielberg shot raiders in 23 days, and he budget couldnt have been THAT huge (if you think about it, there arent that many special effects or many locations).
Yes, I know we have things like "american pie" taking the place of "porkies" and "save the last dance" taking the place of sixteen candles... but can "dude where's my car" take the place of a "ferris buellers day off" or "raiders of the lost ark"?
I dont know, maybe I'm off base... but when I think back it just seemed like if you made $30 million the studio was happy, so instead of one movie with a $140 million budget (what the article quoted it would take to make indiana jones 4) why not FOUR movies at $35 million?
I want my Highlanders, Ferris Buellers, Evil Dead2's, Porky's, revenge of the nerds, last unicorns, the never ending stories, etc...
Sigh. Maybe in 10 years the internet and streaming movies will let studio's make lower budget movies that can be more experimental and not have to have a built in 80% target demographic.
I guess the electricity bills are too high out west and Spielberg needs more cash huh? Will this be a prequel or a sequel ??
... was the first one, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. The other 2 were all right, but no where near as good as the first one. Will Lucas and Spielberg be able to create a sequel which rivals the first one? It will be interesting to see, however I think Harrison Ford is getting a bit to old to be running around with a whip and a gun... ugh :x