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Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film

Posted by Zonk on from the junior? dept.

Alchemist253 writes "George Lucas has announced that the script for the long-rumored fourth Indiana Jones film has been finalized and is to begin filming this year, with Harrison Ford once again in front of the camera. From the article: 'In a statement, the 64-year-old Ford said he was ready for another turn as the globe-trotting archaeologist. "I'm delighted to be back in business with my old friends," he said. "I don't know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will."' All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?

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  1. Maybe something like this. by Chas · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Decks a Nazi out*

    *CRACK*

    "Shit! My back went again!"

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    1. Re:Maybe something like this. by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny
      Either the Nazis will come out of a time warp in the 1960s

      What, they're putting Rick Berman and Brannon Braga on the team, too?

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  2. shot in versus by sammy+baby · · Score: 5, Interesting
    All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?


    The originals were all done in the pulp-action adventure style that was popularized fifty and sixty years ago - I doubt that it'll somehow be less attractive now than it was when the genre was only thirty years old.

    Also, all three may have been shot in the eighties, but they took place in the forties, so it's not like we're going to see an Indiana Jones trying to come to terms with teh Intarwebs.

    On the other hand, twenty-some odd years later... hey, an Indiana Jones that took place in the sixties might have real potential.
    1. Re:shot in versus by Thansal · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I honestly hope they DON'T ditch the pulp fiction feel of it.

      What the entertainment industry lacks currently is light stuff like pulp fiction, be it books, movies, or tv shows (I will admit that the day and age of the radio drama are probably gone, though they could be revived via the use of netcasts).

      I have honestly been goign back and reading some of the old stuff (before my time) jsut because it is hard to find anytihng like it that is current. After all, I can only take so many pieces that are trying to be high-brow/intelectual/witty/etc. Every so often I need something that is just pure release and nothing else.

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  3. Ok, George, I'll believe it when I see it by p3d0 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script for the film. "It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be the best one yet," the 62-year-old filmmaker said
    This from the guy who can be heard in the making of the Phantom Menace saying about Jar Jar Binks: "we've never had a character this funny before".
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    1. Re:Ok, George, I'll believe it when I see it by Apocalypse111 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, he was right in a way... except that Binks wasn't so much "funny ha-ha" as "funny short-bus".

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  4. Re:So much for never by Svenheim · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indy 4 will be shot in the old-fashioned way with lots of use of stuntmen rather than CGI effects. It's one of the few things confirmed about the project. And remember, Spielberg is directing this, not Lucas.

  5. Not one comeback - but two! by ofcourseyouare · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA...

    "George, Harrison and I are all very excited," Spielberg said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

    I thought George Harrison has passed away? Or are they bringing him back as well as Indy? Just amazing what those boys at ILM can do...

  6. Re:That's funny by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    The one that was adopted:

    Indiana Jones and the Annoying Alien from Naboo

    JJ: "Meesa no liiiike Nazzzzziiis!!"
    IJ: *crack* "Oh, my back!" *crack*
    JJ: "Aaaaaggghh!!! Meesa no like bull whip!!!!"

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  7. Re:That's funny by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 5, Funny
    Lucas kept rejecting scripts


    Anything that keeps Lucas from writing scripts deserves our support.
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  8. Nah, Panama Hat already said it best.... by Rahga · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
    Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
    Panama Hat: So do you.

  9. Re:Oh boy! by oni · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > Any magic he allegedly had 'back in the day'

    Yeah. Allegedly. In truth, what has lucas ever done that wasn't hokie and childish? The original Star Wars was actually pretty good, but Lucas deserves little credit for that. He lucked out in a major way with Harrison Ford, and Harrison Ford saved Star Wars. Try to imagine the movie with just whiny little Luke Skywalker. It just doesn't work.

    Case in point, there is a video on youtube of behind the scenes footage from Empire Strikes Back. There is a great scene in Empire where Solo is being lowered in the carbonite pit and Leia shouts to him, "I love you!" Han looks up at her and say, "I know"

    What a great scene! Well guess what, Lucas originally wrote it this way:
    Leia: I love you
    Han: I love you too.

    Stop for a moment and let the deep, penetrating suckiness of those two lines seep into your being. George Lucas, sitting at his typewriter, no doubt in his underwear, actually typed that, and actually thought it was a good idea. He typed that crap, then he sat back and looked at what he had done and said, "hell yeah, I'm a bloody genius."

    Fortunately, when it came time to film that scene, Irvin Kershner was calling the shots and Lucas was (presumably) in a crypt somewhere. Harrison Ford looked at the script and said, "this sucks" and Kershner agreed and they changed it. And we all remember Empire Strikes Back as a great movie.

    Well, it is a great movie, but no thanks to Lucas.

    If only we had known the truth, then maybe we wouldn't have been so shocked some years later when we were treated to Lucas' drivel in the form of such brain-numbing lines as "omfg sand is the suxor it gets in my eye LOL!!!11" and my personal favorite, "Noooo!!!!"

    God, I hate George Lucas.

  10. Re:We Aren't Dead, Yet by Civil_Disobedient · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The 80's were NOT that long ago. Sheesh!

    I know how you feel, but remember when your parents kept telling you when you were a kid about how cool the 60s were, and it felt like they were talking about a different geological era? Well, that's what these kids today think about the 80s. And much like our parents told us, we can tell today's youth that their music sux0rs compared to the stuff we had back in our day.

    Of course, they were right.

  11. Working title: by jpellino · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Indiana Jones and the Prostate of Doom"

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