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Spielberg & Lucas Approve Indy 4 Script
Anonymous Coward writes "According to an article on ComingSoon.net, the script for the fourth Indiana Jones movie is moving forward. Lucas and Spielberg have agreed on the writing, with only Harrison Ford still required to sign off on the project before it can go into pre-production. Ford has yet to read the script."
I think Hue Jackman would make an awesome Indy, if I were to choose someone to replace Harrison, it would be him.
They made a pact that they would only make another Indy movie if all 3 of GL, SS, and HF agreed on the script being exceptional.
The great thing about the Indy character is his smarts. Half the time he gets out of trouble because he thinks his way out, not because he uses force. Can Sean Connery play James Bond today? I think he could. Can Ford play Indy, I think he can.
I can't wait for Indy 4, the previous movies were awesome.
Indy is like MacGyver on steroids.
Lets just hope they get a good script, a good story, one that gets the intellect and imagination flowing together. Those movies are so rare.
I wonder how many people went into history or archeology because of the Indy movies?
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
My understanding is that this *will* be set in the fifties, at the height of the cold war. Early rumors included Karen Allen reprising her role from the first film, although I understand that's fallen by the wayside.
A damned shame. Karen Allen carried the first Indy movie every bit as much as Harrison Ford did, and that's largely the reason why it's considered so superior to the latter two. I have no doubt this will be a fun movie - Indy three surely was - but if they want it to really sing, they'd bring her back as well.
What if Indy was a dad, like Sean Connery was? Suddenly all the complaints of old age fade away...
We had just watched Last Crusade for the fourth time, freshman in highschool, loving the ford/connery interaction, still jazzed about the marvelous escape into the crevice from petra's treasury. This idiot senior responded to my vague hope that they would make a fourth film, with self-righteous incredulity. "It was the LAST crusade get it? Get it?" Rolling his eyes, knowingly. I then proceeded to attempt to explain how the crusade was actually a reference to the fact that indiana et al were searching for the holy grail much like crusaders during the middle ages, but the person looked at me like I was nuts. He wouldn't hear of it, wouldn't listen to my insistence on a better, correct interpretation of the title. My inability to get through to this idiot still haunts me to this day: I'm far more able to explicate my points and get through to idiotic self-righteous assholes, but I feel like I failed this git. Hopefully, wherever this refuse is now, he'll hear this news and recognize what an idiot he was and have a moment of quiet reflection on how he shouldn't have been so sophmoronic.
"Derp de derp."
I sincerely hope that Lucas won't royally fsck up Indiana Jones part 4 like he did with the Star Wars prequel(s). (I only watched the first one in the theater. It sucked so much that I skipped the second one entirely. My friends say the third is ok, so I'll wait until it gets to the cheap theater and then check it out.)
The biggest problem with the prequel(s) is this: The first three movies (meaning, episodes 4 through 6) used special effects in moderation. Costumes were consistent from one scene to the next and between movies. Everything appeared as it should. Yes, there were special effects, as we obviously don't have starships to fly around and film. But most of the movie's genius was in the simplicity and creativity of its photography and setting selection. Scenes were filmed in the desert, or in a forest, and these appeared quite realistic. Unfortunately, the prequel(s) were much more about special effects than good film technique. Even the acting sucked. And need I mention that the costumes and technology are not consistent, neither with the original three movies, nor from one scene to the next in the prequel(s). This damaged the movie, rather than provide added value.
I really have a feeling that Indy 4 will be all about special effects and corny acting than a compelling movie like the first three in that series, and that guess is based on past experience with Lucas. (Speilberg, I don't know, he still has some sense, I suppose, so hopefully he'll balance it out.)
Erm... Dernholm Elliot was only a stuttering buffoon in the Last Crusade. In the first Indy he seemed quite lucid and full of vigour, and it was implied that he may have once been something of an adventurer. He says that he would have gone after the Ark of the Covenant himself had he been younger, or something to that effect.
The Last Crusade is a great film, but it screwed over the characters of both Marcus Brody and Sallah - Sallah was a wily and resourceful fellow in the first film, but in Last Crusade I seem to recall him running around gathering camels or something equally degrading.
Hopefully, this trend won't continue into the forthcoming film. Given that Harrison Ford won't be as physically active as he was 20 years ago, he too may be relegated to bumbling around in the film. OK, Indy IS the film so maybe it won't be quite that bad, but even a few moments of senelity or incompetence of that nature will ruin the film. They have to find a way to make him age gracefully...
Then, Steven Spielberg concentrates on the details. He fleshes out the plot, and Harrison Ford throws in the ad lib.
In short, Lucas should be the inspiration, and Spielberg should be the perspiration. Star Wars I & II is sufficient reason to keep Lucas in check.
As for the plot, since Harrison Ford is much older now, the appropriate theme would be something in the 1960s because the prior Indy films were set in the 1940s. The great tyrrany in the 1960s is, of course, mainland China and the Chinese occupation of Tibet. We could have Dr. Jones trekking to Tibet to find some lost artifact after first consulting with the Dalai Lama. Spielberg could throw in some old footage of the Chinese waving their little red Mao books at the height of the cultural revolution. There is also some old footage of Chinese soldiers randomly shooting at Tibetans.
Since Ford is a Buddhist and an admirer of the Dalai Lama, he would likely support such a plot.