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Harrison Ford Confirms Indiana Jones IV Production
phoric writes "According to TheIndyExperience.com, Harrison Ford has confirmed that his role in the much-rumored production of another Indiana Jones sequel is indeed true. However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery."
The title announced will be: Indiana Jones and The Search For More Money
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Harrison ford was born on 13 July 1942. That makes his 62. So we are going to have a 62-year-old man doing Indiana Jones stunts. Mr. Ford must be one fit senior citizen.
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With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
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Didn't they learn their lesson the first time when they released "Young Indiana Jones". Don't get me wrong, Indiana Jones is my favorite series of movies, but there is a time when you need to put things to rest.
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I have always detested that about the James Bond series. If Harrison Ford can't play Indiana Jones then just let it die. Please. That said, I have high hopes for this movie which I'm sure will come crashing down as soon as they announce Ice Cube to be the villain.
They frikkin' get the cuisine of the countries where the new "Temples of Doom" will be located. Do you have any idea how irritating it is to walk into a restaurant in New Delhi and have a tourist fuckface go: "So where's the eyeball soup". What a bunch of maaderchods.
Harrison Ford is 62 years old.
Sylvester Stallone is 58 years old.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 57 years old.
These guys were the primary action heroes while I was growing up. Man. Now _I_ feel old.
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Your momma is so fat, she auditioned for a role in Indiana Jones as the big rolling ball!!
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or young sidekicks for "comedic relief."
you mean like short round?
Indiana Jones and the Search for the Fountain of Youth
Seriously Dude, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, For Real This Time
Indiana Jones and the Geriatric Years
Indiana Jones VII, the search for Indian Jones IV, V and VI
George Lucas, from what I hear, is having a much more active role in the script writing. My guess, the script will go a little something like this: Indiana Jones drives an 18 wheeler into the Taj Mahal after discovering that it contains some Nazi Memorabila. He engages in an epic battle with some ancient Nazi general, who cuts off his hand. In a later scene, he goes to visit his father, who is on his deathbed, in an iron lung in a hospital. Between heavy breaths, Connery lets Ford know that the german woman from Last Crusade is actually his sister.
At this point the movie will end... gotta have material for a sequel, yknow.
I haven't found out where the "Meeesta Jones" Jackie-Chan-esque kid fits into the plot yet...
Did anyone else read that as:
Harrison Ford confirms, Indiana Jones IV Production is dying ?
Harrison ford was born on 13 July 1942. That makes his 62. So we are going to have a 62-year-old man doing Indiana Jones stunts. Mr. Ford must be one fit senior citizen.....
Indy: "It belongs in a museum."
Panama Hat: "So do you."
(video clip of it here)
Indy always was a dignified fellow, so there's no reason he can be the older professor, gray hair and all, saving the world. Heck, it worked for Connery - as Bond and as Indy's sidekick. I have no problem with at all with a 60+ Indy.
Go for it.
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George is happy with the script. I wonder who will be Indy's CGI sidekick?
With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
A younger disciple, like, maybe, his son?
Sean Connery as Grandpa Jones, Harrison Ford as Daddy Jones, and, I dunno, Hugh Jackman, or Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jones Jr? Maybe Karen Allen [the original Lost Ark love interest] as Mrs Jones?
Of course, Steven Spielberg [having ditched Amy Irving for Kate Capshaw, of Temple of Doom fame], and Harrison Ford, having ditched a succession of wives for some damned whore from Ally McBeal, are probably not the kinds of guys to whom it might occur to portray fatherhood in a favorable light.
I like Ford as much as the next guy, but billing him up as the midas touch for movies seems a bit excessive.
;)
Star Wars didn't die because Ford wasn't involved with the prequels. Star Wars died because Lucas was involved.
I got a bad feeling about this... has never rung more true.
What about Angelina Jolie?
Oh, wait....
It's interesting that we all say, "No! Only Harrison can ever be Indy!" but people have no problem with Tom Baker being replaced by Peter Davison, then Colin, then Sylvester, etc...
I think more Indy movies will fail (though this one may pull an audience like Connery did in Never Say Never Again) not due to anything having to do with Mr. Ford.
When Spielberg made the Indy movies, he was reviving the Saturday serials of distant movie lore. He had a sense of nostalgia and a sense of love for the project. After seeing some recent Speilberg work, I don't think he is capable of the innocent fervor needed to cut a successful Indy movie together.
However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery."
Or how about before Roger Moore with George Lazenby? Oh that was horrific!
I'm sorry but no one can replace Harison Ford as Indiana Jones, I just can't see any actor stepping into that role.
If they wait long enough they can just CG him into the following Indiana movies. Then he could have multiple roles (young Indy, based off the Star Wars texture (or possibly River Phoenix, etc.), the Indy we are all used to, and possible the "real" indie as a cameo.
Hell, they could throw Humphrey Bogart and James Dean, and everyone else they have been editing into commercials (they're families don't seem to mind the images of their loved ones being used to sell Coke or Mustangs).
In any case, I think it will eventually happen that all our "best" actors will go and get completely character modeled, then the models will be saved for future use, and this may be the best thing that could happen to them (Imagine a character with the looks of Jessica Simpson, the voice of James Earl Jones, and the acting ability of 20 character modeling experts....)
I am intrigued... This series always used the Nazis as bad guys, which always worked out well. Now, if they play to his age as opposed to ignoring it, they can set the films in the early cold war. Think about it -- Russians, nuclear bombs, espionage. Not necessarily standard IJ fare, but interesting nonetheless.
Lucas is allowed to be involved. In fact, he should be involved, he is a creative visionary.
The caveat, though, is that someone or something has to be around to keep him on a leash. On the first trilogy he had small budgets and the actors were willing to talk back to him. He also didn't do all the writing and directing by himself. Nowadays he gets to control every aspect of the picture and nobody will tell him when he's wrong. It's not the best environment for his films.
I'd really like an adaptation of "Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis" for the widescreen.
That game ROCKED. And don't worry about previous videogame adaptations. Those were usually action games adapted with a sucky story. Here we're talking about a game which is ACTUALLY a story.
It wasn't advancing age that prompted Connery to leave Bond behind.
Connery is currently 74. He retired from the Bond franchise after "You Only Live Twice" in 1967, when he was 37. He played Bond again, at 53, in 1983's "Never Say Never Again".
I suspect that if Connery had stood to be paid as much as Ford gets paid to do Indiana Jones, his willingess to play Bond would have increased accordingly.
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the main indicator will be if Indy 4 is a prequel. We can meet Indy's dad as a youth learning the ways of the For... err.. archeology.
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Man, I'm really on the fence on this one.
:) It seems that, to some degree, Bond may have been effeminated over the years - or at least since the 1980's - at least in appearance.
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On one hand, Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. He's also Han Solo. You simply can't replace him in those roles, because everyone - everyone - associates the roles with the face, voice, and (most importantly) personality of Harrison Ford. Replacing Ford with someone else for the role of Indy just wouldn't work unless they tried really bloody hard to find some one with the same tongue-in-cheek sassy wit and lopsided grin - all without looking either too scholarly or two action-hero like. They'd need to find the "everyman intellectual" look, I think - as, it seems to me, Indy is the intellectual Ash.
On the other hand, I'd really like to see more Indiana Jones films, as I grew up on the John Williams soundtracks for Indy, the witty quips, and such. Indiana Jones was, to a large degree, what motivated my interest in both history and archeology. I've got countless photos of both me and my brother dressed up in brown fedoras, kackis, and the closest thing we could find to a leather vest, while holding whips. It'd just make my toes tingle. Though, can they do as well a job on Indy 4 (and any further sequels) as they did on Indy 1 and 3? Indy 2 kinda stunk. Would they truly Bond-ify Indiana Jones, or would they do it in a respectable manner that made it cool?
On still another hand, Indiana Jones relies on the Nazis to make him cool. Without Nazis or some massive empire of evil to fight that can be universally seen as evil, Indy has nothing. That doesn't make it easy to bring Indy to the current day - ala Bond. Maybe if they were to have a series of Chronicles, all placed in the WW2 era, it might work. But then there'd be a stronger need for Ford to play Dr. Jones.
On still another hand, if you look at the Bond films, none of the James Bonds were as good as Connery except for maybe Brosnan. I'd argue that Connery is simply too cool for Bond, and that Brosnan does, in my mind, fit the Bond prototype image better - at least for modern day. I imagine the case may have been different in the 1950's.
Now, Harrison Ford's Indy was a "man's man". He drinks. He likes women. He doesn't like mindless women, and he likes them to remain quiet. He can take a beating while dishing one out. He's as sharp as a whip and can think inventively in times of need. He is, in a sense, an "idol", someone that almost every male can relate to on most levels, and still someone that can be looked up to. What I wonder is, in today's "progressive" society, would they bastardize the Indiana Jones character and take out all those character traits to make Indy more PC? They did so with Bond, to a large degree, and I do say the franchise suffered for it.
Anyway, I could go on all day like this... I think I'll watch some Indiana Jones tonight.
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I work for a small production company. While we have a fair sized group of mid-twenties gaffers, and grips, and PA's to do the "grunt work", the core people never fail to amaze me. Our still photographer is in his mid-sixties, an avid hiker, and runs two miles a day on his lunch break. Our senior engineer is also in his sixties, and was out lugging cables in the woods last summer dispite a knee replacement two months previously. Our DP is over seventy, and can lug fully loaded film camera cases further than I, a mid-twenties 2ndAC, can. Our Director, in his early sixties, has been known to climb trees, carry arc lights up small mountains, and help push a stuck generator trailer out of three inch deep mud. They can also work longer nights than we young'uns can, and be fresher and more alert while the rest of us are stumbling around like zombies. Fit senior citizens are not to be ignored, IMHO.
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Hey, if Clint Eastwood in his 60s can walk into a bar in The Unforgiven and still say "Any man who doesn't wanna get killed, just clear on out the back," and mean it, then I'd wager Harrison Ford, at 62, can walk into a Nazi stronghold and say "Dunno -- I'll think of something," and mean it too.
Okay, so WW2 is over. That doesn't mean there aren't still Nazis. If I were writing Indiana Jones 4, it would be in South America where the Nazis have fled with the Spear of Destiny.
It can work.
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how about playing his own father or uncle or something? Lucaas did this with Lukes uncle owen, who plays his own father in the prequels. Not to mention he couldve played an entirely different character. I'm not saying Ford's presence would have saved the new trilogy by itself, but an actor of ford's credentials could afford to stand up to lucas and try to stop some of his more terrible ideas (like jar-jar). As a previous poster has said, its not that lucas shouldnt have been involved (he did create it after all), he just needs someone to keep his visions in check. An actor like ford would have managed that
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Most people don't know that Roger Moore (born 1927) was actually older than Sean Connery (born 1930) by three years. Was a shock to me as well at the time I found out. I had always assumed that Roger Moore was Connery's younger replacement.
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Sure it is an action movie, but Indiana Jones is one of those characters that can be funny...
I personally won't want to see an Indiana Jones movie with Ford in it unless it does make fun in some way his inability to get around anymore. If it doesn't, it will be a joke, and no one will believe it. It is part of where Harrison Ford is now. Better to surf the staples of adventure and humor in this one than do the opposite and try to make a stab at seriousness.
As good as Indiana Jones is, there always comes a time when it's necessary to just let it go. The original movies were, are, and will continue to be classics. Creating more films in an attempt to replicate the success of the first ones, will never succeed. There's no way a replacement could ever be found for Harrison Ford, and even if there was, there's no similar replacement for the Nazis. The Russians belong to Bond. Quite frankly, everything exists in a specific time and place, and the window of opportunity for Indiana Jones has probably already expired. You only have so much time in which you can continue the series and have them remain relevent. Fifty years from now, will the next generation appreciate and enjoy the original Indiana Jones films like we do now? After a hundred years, the threat of Nazism will have diminished greatly in the minds of most the world. To sum it all up, I think trying to continue the IJ franchise is a losing battle from the start-impossible to do successfully, and eventually worthless even if accomplished.
An advance copy of the script show that the movie starts out with Indy three days away from retiring as professor of archeology when he's sent on a quest to retrive the Talisman of Zohoma. After negotiating the traps of the temple and narrowly avoiding being blown up by a neo-nazi patrol, Indy comments on how he's "Getting too old for this shit."
No, according to the Knight, the power of the grail would be lost once they crossed the seal in the chamber where Connery was shot. Whoever wanted to live forever had to stay within the confines of the cave, supposedly to protect the grail until the next challenger arrived.
There are two things that any actor who plays James Bond must be able to make you believe.
1. That he could kick your ass.
2. That he could steal your woman.
The better in balance that each actor has these two traits the better a Bond that actor will be. Of course, now we come to the bonds:
Sean Connery. In my opinion the Bond that has these two in the best balance. I'll leave examples of why to the reader.
George Lazenby. I would say the worst, if only because he had his scale way too far on the "Steal your woman" metric. In other words, he looked like a pussy doing the stuff that Bond does. Hell, he gets married for christ sakes. If that doesn't scream, limp wristed fighting style (in the context of Bond that is), I don't know what does. (and yes I know Connery also got married, but as I recall that was part of his cover, please correct me if I"m wrong. but my point still stands, there's a reason lazenby was gone after one movie)
Roger Moore. A good Bond but was slightly to the woman side. He didn't look totally silly doing stunts and whatnot, but if you met the guy in a random bar, do you really think he'd beat you down? I don't think so.
Tim Dalton. Heavy on the Ass kicking scale (as the parent points out). Dalton totally looks like he would flip out and start killing people at any moment. This is detrimental to his believabilty in scoring with the ladies, as he is ass ugly.
Pierce Brosnan. A good balance, but just doesn't pull it off as well in my opinion as Connery did, if only because the scripts he works with tend to be god awful.
And there we have the rankings of the Bonds, so let it be written so let it be done, or something.
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Yeah, it's so annoying when they have an actor replace another actor. Like, there have only been 7 Hamlets in the whole of human history, and THAT'S SIX HAMLETS TOO FUCKING MANY! There should have only been ONE Hamlet, and when HE died, they should have stopped making Hamlet productions. This continual resurrection of Shakespeare bullshit is utterly shameless. Robbing the grave for yet another dollar, trotting out the same tired old remakes. The don't even bother writing up new scripts anymore, it's the SAME FUCKING PLAY, AGAIN! When WILL audiences learn?
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Mr. Ford must be one fit senior citizen.
He's a senior citizen that rescued a sick hiker near his residence in Wyoming. You may have read about this, if not there are more details here.
Harrison Ford may be the perfect guy. Rides his horses, good looking, humble... if it weren't for the Star Wars Holiday Special he made in 1978, he'd be perfect.
They have the technology they should do
and Indiana Jones movie that is computer generated..
Then they can reuse Harrison Ford's Mannerisms
and movements, and he can still act, no
matter how old he gets.. Then he will have no excuse
but to star int he movies.
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