Slashdot Mirror
Indiana Jones To Arrive Again in 2005
Dolemite_the_Wiz writes "The Raider.net reports that the release date for the next Indiana Jones Movie (tentatively titled 'Indiana Jones 4') is, according to Steven Spielberg, "...going to come out probably for the July 4th weekend of 2005...". The movie looks like it will be set in the 1950s and include just about every main character from the first three films. For more links about this movie, check this search result from Cinescape. Secondly, IndianaJones.com reports that the First three films in the Indiana Jones Trilogy will be released on November 4th. These films have to be one of the most requested DVD releases (probably next to the Original 'Star Wars' trilogy and the first two 'Godfather' movies) ever. "
"
This Four DVD set will include:
- Restored Film Footage
- Remastered in THX
- New Dolby 5.1 soundtrack
- A 4th DVD with just about every aspect of how the films were made.
This collection will retail for $49.95 (US)
Here's the official release notice for the DVD.I just hope that the new film and DVD will be able to Satisfy all the Indy fans."
This Four DVD set will include:
- Restored Film Footage
- Remastered in THX
- New Dolby 5.1 soundtrack
- A 4th DVD with just about every aspect of how the films were made.
This collection will retail for $49.95 (US)
Here's the official release notice for the DVD.I just hope that the new film and DVD will be able to Satisfy all the Indy fans."
I'm really happy they're finally coming out with the fourth movie. The rumors I've heard are that Harrison Ford will be the 'old Indiana' and he will be looking back on the adventures of his youth? Not sure how well thats going to work, but I'm sure that I'll be spending my money at the movies when it comes out.
Harrison Ford escapes from the old folks' home in his wheelchair and finds the Fountain of Middle Age in a Roman temple, where a 19-year-old nymphomaniac falls hopeless in love with him for 17 minutes and then he flies away in his airplane.
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
~Anztac
And then we will have Star Wars 7, Matrix 4, LOTR 4, Harry Potter 5....
I would rather have a single new original movie, instead of tons of the same old stuff.
I remember reading that Mark Hamil was talked about for playing Indiana's long lost evil brother. Any truth to it?
Indiana Jones will be using such popular consumer products as Geritol, Fix-a-Dent, Ben Gay, and Preperation H. The people representing those "Rascal" mobility scooters didn't put up enough cash to get into the movie.... Just as well, as the pace would be pretty slow with Harrison Ford buzzing along at a brisk 2 mph on one of those electric scooters.
Who did what now?
What happened to the trilogies that have become so popular?
.02
Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (I refuse to count the three "newest" ones), etc.
While I am midly excited to see that this film is going to be released I don't see it as being popular. They are going to concentrate on large-scale special effects and less on the content (just like all recent films and sequels/pre).
That's my worthless
**Spoiler from the Downloaded Kazaa Version**
Remember that scene in the bazaar with the sword wielding Arabian dude, you know, the one who wants to slice Indy open like a frozen tauntaun?
Well, in the original Indy just blasts him with his pistol, however, in keeping with the whole "harrison ford shoots second" motiff, Spielburg has decided to let the sword guy swing at him.
This has the undesirerable side effect of Indy losing his left hand, which has been digitially removed and replaced with a walkie talkie. Years later in the fourth movie, Indy is replaced with a slightly (okay, an extremely) sexier version of himself as a woman, and must engage her in fights that involve her wrapping her legs around him that would leave most contortionists in wheelchairs, slightly before judgement day occurs...
oh, wait, wrong overdue sequel with a star way too old for the part...
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
The internet movie database already has a few hints in its forum
"The movie looks like it will be set in the 1950s"
So no Nazis then?
Based on the existing trilogy, I just think you gotta have Nazis for it to work well, simply because of their obsession (in real life) with ancient artefacts and folklore... why not a 1940's mid-war Jones?
You can preorder the Indiana Jones Trilogy for $44.95 at Bestbuy.com. I didn't link directly to their product page to avoid looking like I'm trying to make some $$$ on referrals. However, you can click through your favorite 'hot deals' website if you preorder & still get it for $44.95 while earning them a few cents in the process; Or just go to their website and search for "Indiana DVD" and it will be the top two links FYI: The Widescreen edition SKU is 5721463 & the Full Screen SKU is 5721454.
And don't forget to check out Spielberg Films for fairly up-to-date news.
From their Temple of Doom page: It looks like the news previously reported regarding extra features on the fourth disc of the INDY set was on the money as the bonus disc will include documentaries on "The Making of the Trilogy", "The Sound and Music of Indiana Jones", "The Special Effects of Indiana Jones" and "The Stunts of Indiana Jones".
DVDFile says the "Making Of" doc will be a "new full-length documentary", so its safe to assume that the documentary will be a substantial, feature-length look at the making of the trilogy.
No word is made about deleted scenes, but amazon.com's spec list did state they would be present. Judging by the accuracy of the other extras they named, things are pointing to their inclusion, but you never know until the discs is in our grubby hands.
If you look at Clint Eastwood, he can still play great action characters. Great actors don't need to do difficult physical actions, even in an action movie.
Well, actually the plot is a closely guarded secret at this point, and I am glad.
Sean Connery will be in it as Indiana's Father again and the movie is being set in the 1950's to account for Harrison's aged real life look which cannot be entirely hidden on camera.
I believe they are having the women of his life make cameo's and such, though Karen Allen is the only one that I'd personally like to see in it as Spielberg's wife (Kate Capshaw) just annoys the hell out of me!
Anyway, my prediction is this: (and this is entirely me guessing, but I am putting it down here now as proof that I said it before the plot was learned)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (yes, like the original PC game that came out years ago)
Why do I predict this? Because Atlantis as a real location still fascinates people around the world today, in fact I was watching Discovery Channel the other night about people that are currently looking for it and clues they have found and such. I mean, let's face it, he's found the most prized Biblical Artifacts already, it's time for him to find something bigger.
I guess in the end only time will tell but I thought that I would give you that tidbit at the top about who will be who and why the movie is being set in the 1950's.
P.S.
For all your Indiana Jones Fans out there, in case you missed it (as I am sure most have) in the The Temple of Doom, when Harrison jumps out of the hotel at the beginning with Kate Capshaw and they fall into the car and drive past the entrance to the club that they just ran from, well, the big hidden George Lucas "Easter Egg" is the club is named "Club Obi Wan" (from Star Wars yet had an oriental ring to it)
Cheers!
Yes, folks, get ready for Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom!
--
"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
Hey, be fair - Ford's 60, not 90, and in physical good nick. There's plenty of life in the old dog yet, although it does seem slightly bizarre to be doing film 4 now rather than several years ago. Perhaps it would be wise to cut back a bit on the acrobatics and write a plot that's suited to an older, wiser Indy (and if it's set in the 1950s, Indy will have aged about as much as Ford has since the Last Crusade), but writing people off just because they're nearly old enough to collect their pension's a bit unfair.
And hey, Ford now is about two years older than Roger Moore was when he last played James Bond in 1987.
Uh Oh -- Big Mistake!
cited
It's all good.
How about
"Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Retirement Home"
or
"Indiana Jones: The Temple of Viagra"
or
"Indiana Jones: The Last Erection"
The villan from this one will be Interpol, tracking Indiana down for 20 years worth of smuggling national treasures to sell to museums. High adventure ensues in U.S. Extradition Court, as Indy faces his greatest nemesis, Warren "Eyepatch" Fineburg, a ruthless UN junior legal secretary with a jaunty BLACK fedora and a bullwhip-like fountain pen. Indy's only hopes for exoneration lies in a ragtag legal team consisting of a whiny showgirl, an ex-Russian general turned Hindu monk, and a sassy orangutan lawyer. Indy will need all his skill and luck to survive the climactic out-of-court settlement on the ledge of the courthouse clock tower!
I trusted my heart to you once Lucas, and you let me down. I'll approach this with appropriate levels of guarded enthusiasm.
Wynter
"Not all who wander are lost" -- JRR Tolkien
"the First three films in the Indiana Jones Trilogy will be released"
Since, in any rational universe, a trilogy doesn't have a 'first three films', shouldn't that be the 'increasingly inaccurately named Indiana Jones Trilogy'?
No, Sean Patrick Flanery played Indy in the tv series. River Phoenix played Young Indy in The Last Crusade (the part showing the origin of the scar on his chin).
Since Indy drank from the Cup of Life in the last movie, isn't he immortal now? What kind of plot is that going to make? Is he going to meet up with the Highlander or something?
Seriously, if he can't be killed and is he just going to walk up to the main Nazi bad guy and shoot him?
Or maybe I got the last movie all wrong.
This seems to be a trend, as I'm sure y'all have noticed already: announce the latest in a series of movies, and simultaneously release a boxed set of DVDs of all the previous movies. The buzz about the upcoming movie sells the boxed set. After the next movie arrives, the boxed set is now incomplete, and you get a chance to sell a brand new boxed set to the believers. Pretty crappy if you ask me, but people apparently fall for it.
Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
Indiana was only immortal in the actual hall of the grail. That is why the knight who guarded the grail was able to stay alive for so long, but never leave the hall -- the grail's gift of immortality did not extend past the seal on the floor.
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
Short Round is the Jar-Jar Binks of the Indiana Jones movies:
broken English coupled with nails-on-a-chalkboard voice
cloying attempts to appear cute
useless in most life-threatening or otherwise important situations
The major difference is that it is difficult to wish harm on Short Round because he is a little kid - not so with Jar-Jar. I had no trouble wishing Han Solo would show up and shoot first.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
-MDL
Happy meals fund terrorism
The hitch hicker guide to the galaxy /// A TRILOGY IN 5 PARTS ///
I hate those young techno punk that think they invented a new, but interesting problem...
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
On the rope bridge, Jar-Jar would have screamed and blubbered. Short Round quietly turned to Willie and said, "Hang on. We going for a ride." The kid had a set of balls on him, man.
If they had both been there, Short Round would kicked Jar-Jar off the bridge himself in the name of the mission.
--- Ban humanity.
In Raiders, he was cautiously uncertain about Indy's pursuit of the Ark. The scene where Jones is packing his suitcase and Brody reveals his misgivings was really well done, conveying a sense that they were messing this things that should be better left alone.
In the third film, he was, simply, a boob. A comic relief. Dundering and flailing about, he was C-3P0 as a human. Of course that film was lighter in tone all around and IMO none of the movies of the trilogy approach the greatness of the first one, but still I thought that character's transformation from serious to comic was a shame.
When I was in Vienna, Austria back in July of 1994, the big news on MTV Text was the new Indiana Jones movie, supposedly to focus around the "Spear of Destiny", the spear which stabbed Christ during the Crucifixion was in the works. Hmm.
BTW, MTV Text was a second MTV channel (this is back when Euro MTV was in English 24-7) which was text only news.
46. The Hobo smiles, his eyes glaze over, and he burps. "Beware the man who has lived longer than the Wasteland."
You say:
He's found the most famous Biblical Artefacts already (plus a Hindu artefact, for that matter), but not the most prized. The most prized must surely include the cross of the crucifixion itself, which, legend has it (if one wishes to give a Hollywood angle to it), heals all who touch it.
Note that I agree with you: the Christian Artefact angle has pretty much been done enough, and they'll probably try for something else like Atlantis, or something Egyptian, or maybe Incan? Round off the series (I presume this will be the last) with a throw-back to the opening scene of Raiders -- that would be cool. Even so, the Christian Artefact scene is hardly mined out if they think it will please the crowds.
proof, n. A demonstration that a conclusion is implied by certain premises and axioms.
Harrison Ford was on Conan last week and said he hasn't even seen a script yet for #4. The release time frame is definitely tentative.
something bigger..like SCO's code in linux?
However, I'm curious as to why a Chinese gangster in Shanghai would want a name that sounded even vaguely Japanese. Virtually everyone in China in the 1930's hated the Japanese, due to, you know, their ruthless and brutal invasion of China.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
As long as they don't bring back that little annoying kid in the Yankee cap in Temple Of Doom.
I want short-round in the next movie. Played by Yun-Fat Chow. Wouldn't that be something?
Indiana Jones and the Search for the WMD
It could be set in the desert, and could have the opening scene in the Oval Office with G.W. telling Harrison Ford that there is a POWERFUL MYSTERIOUS ARTIFACT that evil terrorists are hiding that he needs to find. He's not really sure what it looks like...just that it has the potential to bring lots of DOOM! And if he comes across any oil to make sure to relay the coordinates to his personal line.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
If I want to see a movie with thought provoking themes, interesting dialog, and fully realized characters then I will go rent it and enjoy it from the comfort of my couch.
If I am going to drive to a theater, shell out $9, watch stupid commercials and listen to bland pop for half an hour waiting for the movie to start then I want to watch a movie that knocks my socks off. I want assloads of special effects and bass that goes down to the brown note. Otherwise I can get a better movie watching experience in my own home.