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Lucas Researching Concept For New Indiana Jones Film
Cycon writes "According to George Lucas, 'The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea. And that series is very research-intensive. So we're doing research now to see if we can't come up with another object for him to chase ... hopefully we'll come up with something.' Lucas 'scoffed at the possibility of passing the famed fedora from Ford to Shia LaBeouf,' instead stating, 'if [Harrison Ford] wasn't in it, you'd have to call it "Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis."'"
There's plenty he could be going after:
Indiana Jones and the Clump Of Dark Matter
Indiana Jones and the RIAA lawsuit about him touching the Ark Of The Covenant (without seeking prior license from the Vatican) ...?
It has to be some kind of magical totem that will resurrect the desiccated corpse of the franchise.
I haven't seen the new indiana jones movie yet but i like the idea of a new indiana jones. I don't know if Shia LaBeouf is a good choice thought cause i said earlier i haven't seen the new indy movie yet.
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How about introducing a strange new character that behaves in an obnoxious way, speaks in unintelligible patois and causes everyone to flinch whenever he's onscreen. He could be called Shortstop Bingo and be Indy's trusty right-hand fuck up.
Surely this would totally enhance the franchise.
Lucas 'scoffed at the possibility of passing the famed fedora from Ford to Shia LaBeouf,' instead stating, 'if [Harrison Ford] wasn't in it, you'd have to call it "Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis."'
I think Lucas missed an opportunity to turn Indiana Jones into a James Bond-like franchise. Some months ago I read that it was originally sold as "James Bond with nazis and ancient treasures", and I think it would have been a great idea to keep it perpetually in a pre-WW2 setting with nazis and zeppelins, and replace the main actor if he gets too old.
Although ofcourse no other Indiana Jones could ever compare to Harrison Ford.
As long as the next plot doesn't rely on yet-another-alternate-reality scheme, where, say, Jones spends most of the movie in a coma, dreaming about Stonehenge or the Giza plateau or Atlantis, only to suddenly wake up after drifting off in a bathtub somewhere in Berkeley, I'm in. Wait....we're done w/Shia, right? No more Mutt? Mutt is off w/J.J. Binks somewhere? Permanently? Promise? Ok, then...please proceed.
Lucas whining about "research" is laughable.
Granted, Raiders of the Lost Ark had some interesting stories in it, and did at least deal with some research, but I would say the amount of true "research" in Indiana Jones films has been dropping geometrically.
Indeed, The Last Crusade, other then repeating the Romantic-era story about the grail that so many people already knew, gave no new information and instead focused on the relationship between Indy and his father.
And Crystal Skull -- from what people have told me about it is even worse. Dealing with a completely fictional back story that doesn't represent anything presently known about the crystal skulls, nor anything that is written about widely in popular paranormal literature.
No one is saying that Indiana Jones isn't a fabulous example of those serial movies from the 40s and 50s, but I am arguing that the amount of research is mind-numbingly small.
And who here thinks that this statement:
"The franchise really depends on me"
Isn't just a bit egotistical... *cough*Phantom Menace*cough*
I know, you could make a movie about this art critic, who stumbles on a a clue to a secret society. Only problem is, he already found the holy grail.
I'd like to see more Indy movies but not if Shia LaBeouf is in it.
"The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea." *sigh*
All intents and purposes. Not intensive purposes.
The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea
We're fucked.
And The Raiders of the Lost Death Star? Temple of the Lost Jedi? Last Strike of the Empire?
Knows everything about nothing and nothing about everything.
... but "Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis" seems like it could be ok.
Indiana Jones and The Quest to Regain His Dignity...
Or why don't we just cut right to the chase to keep this franchise going another 20 years:
That Kid From Transformers and Indiana Jones
Murphey's fighting Occam, and we're in the stands.
Indiana Jones and the Still Beating Heart of George Lucas
Seriously, if the franchise really depends on Lucas coming up with a good idea, they might as well call it a day right now.
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I actually set my expectations low, cranked my IQ down and set suspension of disbelief to high. After all it's Indy Jones, you're not supposed to be thinking too much.
But when Indy Jones did the ball bearings stuff, those Standard Indy settings started to show their shortcomings... I went "OK turn off physics"
Things totally fell apart when Tarzan Boy started swinging from tree to tree. I had to do some major changes at that point. How does that add to the story line or show?
I enjoyed the first one and temple of doom was ok. This one, save your money/bandwidth. Go watch something else. I heard Batman is good.
We could call the new film "Indiana Jones: A Bridge Too Far". It describes Indiana going to Europe in search of a decent Lucas script, but Indiana pushed so far and fast across Europe he got bogged down in Arnhem (he forgot his whip), his lackey cannot help Indy because he can't land because of fog. Indiana meets intense local opposition saying "enough of the franchises and rubbish scripts." So Indiana gets beaten back and returns home empty handed.
The film will later be re-released in THX certified, ultra-cleaned up digital transfer HiDef with additional scenes to hide the lack of continuity and script errors in the original release.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
George Lucas... new ideas... George Lucas... new ideas... nope, that just doesn't sound right.
Seriously, if George Lucas was any good at coming up with new ideas then maybe we'd have seen some new movies in the last 10 years instead of having to look on in horror as he mercilessly butchers old classics which he knows will keep him swimming in caviar for the next decade.
I mean, if left to his own devices next thing you know he'll have a camp Vader screaming 'noooooooooo' at the sky or something. Oh hang on....
Indiana Jones and the Search for the Giant Goiter
Can we please have a death match between Jar-Jar Binks and Shia LaBeouf? That would be about the only thing that would drag me back into the theater after the last one. The one thing Indy can't seem to dig up is a decent script.
That wasn't hard.
I don't know about others, but I would love to see new series of Young Indiana Jones which used to be aired in '92 and later. Many people rates it very low, but for me it was very educating serie and was the only thing I used to watch in a TV when I was young.
Lucas is going to completely destroy the franchise, just like he did with Star Wars. Clearly he has no new ideas whatsoever, as he's prefer to spend his energy squeezing every drop of life out of a one-successful brand rather than continue to create new quality films. He should be ashamed of himself.
'Cause, you know, ILM can only do so much...
Enough said
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Fate_of_Atlantis
"The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea."
George Lucas hasn't had a good idea since about 1982. Well, I guess not passing the fedora to Shia LaBeouf would be a good idea if Lucas had given the correct reason for it: Shia can't act.
Following the big financial success of Indy IV, Lucas has decided to further pursue the theme of self parodying absurdities.
Mel Brooks has been cast as the new Indy. Rick Moranis is close to being signed as the new bad guy.
Work title: Indiana Jones and The Power of The Schwartz.
Okay, maybe '58 Impalas but '57 sounds cooler.
Indiana Jones and the Portal of Tatooine
"Dr. Jones discovers the lost continent of Atlantis, containing a portal that jarringly thrusts him backwards though time, to a land far far away. After pooling resources with a seemingly kind hearted philanthropist by the name of palpatine, they leverage indi's scientific earth-knowledge of stem cells to construct a device that elicits a rapid growth in users midi-chlorian count. After mysteriously falling into the wrong hands, it becomes predictably obvious that the galaxies last, best hope for peace requires Jedi Jones to fly his ship into an enemies space station and blow it up from within."
If you liked Greedo shooting first or the FBI agent's guns morphing into walkie-talkies, you'll love the kinder gentler Indy as he takes on the Japanazi rats while snapping a copy of Al Gore's Earth In The Balance instead of that long leather symbol of the slavemasters of the old South.
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
Because lets face it, the guy hasn't come up with a good idea in quite some time.
In general, at this point, I would be willing to say that I enjoy a sincere low-budget production over a self-inflated, egotistical one. If Lucas was going to make a Mutt movie, perhaps we should make him use a 16mm Bell & Howell with black & white film and a smaller crew. Then he could see what he was really made of. Let him shoot little serialized 6 minute shorts and they can show them before Spielberg's features.
No I'm talking about the bad guy he got The Hat from. I recognised The Hat, and saw he was digging up stuff so I assumed he was Indy.
I didn't realise it was a flashback to his childhood.
That was Richard Young who's been in a ton of stuff, including "The Ice Pirates". You're right, he would have made a good Indy.
That's what Lucas should do is cast relatively unknowns (i.e. not big stars) and do a James Bond thing - as everyone else has suggested. Ford wasn't a big star when he was cast as Indy.
a movie based on a video game that was based on a movie that was based on a movie serial from the 40's (IIRC) that was based on pulp fiction novels...phew! Wouldn't that suffer from idea degeneration? - like making a copy of a copy of a copy of a ....
what happens if Indy comes face to face with Hans Solo?!?
The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea... hmmm Elechub
'The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea...' You have proven again and again that you are completely out of, not just good but any captivating, ideas. Give it up. We loathe you and await your departure eagerly, so you will stop raping our childhood heros repeatedly to feed your ego.
For George, researching a movie means researching the copy protection for the movie.
To anyone who's played Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, why don't/didn't they make that into a movie? Thought the story line was great and would have made a watchable movie.
It makes sense for these two characters to look so similar.
You see, Han Solo is actually a relic of Jedi Jones, left over from the clone wars.
Indiana Jones and The Marketing Campaign of Doom
Indiana Jones and The Teenie Boppers Who Eat This Stuff Up
Indiana Jones and The Oh Fuck It Just Give Me Cash
eg anakin and his bitch rolling around in field of grass . ahhh, heartwarming
Tribbles invade William Shatner's hairpiece? No, wait, that was the other one that just won't go away.
711 million worldwide box office.
Harrison Ford looked pretty good in the current film, I think they were just let down by the script and the film still did well.
The main problem for any sequel with the current film is that it gave indy his happy ending, theres nowhere to go with the character....
'The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea.'
So I guess now we will get the ideas of "DVD set of first three, DVD set of all four, Cartoon network series, CGI redux of series, DVD release of cartoon, DVD release of CGI, DVD release of all four with cartoon, DVD release of all four with CGI, DVD release of all four with cartoon and CGI....
He's just a fountain of ideas...
. . . and the Stuff That Matters"
When we saw "Pet Sematary" at a horror movie marathon, we were all getting a bit tired, so the comments flew fast. A major line in the film, referring to a spot of ground with the ability to resurrect pets buried in't (but it brings them back...wrong), was "Anyone ever bury a person up there?"
When, in the film, a truck crashed and totalled, , someone yelled out, "Anyone ever bury a truck up there?" I forget if it were I or my dear who shouted, "Anyone ever bury a script up there?
"Anyone ever bury a franchise up there?" Yes, Timmy, by all appearances, someone did.
Indiana Jones and the Search for the Low Interest Rate Fixed Mortgage
Indiana Jones and the Quest for the 50 MPG Car
Indiana Jones and the Hunt for a Politician who isn't Corrupt and Stupid
Indiana Jones and the Case of the Evil Shareholder Value
Indiana Jones and the Expedition for Desktop Linux Preinstalled
Indiana Jones and the Navigation of the Internet Without a Functioning DNS
Indiana Jones and the Search for an Electric Car That Doesn't Cost More Than Making This Movie
Indiana Jones and the Development of a Cheap Working Shuttle Replacement
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Starbucks
"Indiana Jones in Reefer Madness II: Goin' Nucular"
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Indiana Jones and the Played-Out Franchise
FOXTROT UNIFORM CHARLIE KILO
He should write a story about the Ancient Computer, and how it was used to pilot ghost ships and his quest to rebuild one with its original program to find a famous cache of lost artifacts. Timed for release when the Mekanism is decoded.
According to George Lucas, 'The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea.
Lucas hasn't had a good idea in decades so there is no fear that he'll produce another one of his cinematic abortions.
' Lucas 'scoffed at the possibility of passing the famed fedora from Ford to Shia LaBeouf,'
Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth.
After all, Harrison Ford is eligible for Medicare as of last year.
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
Indian Jones and the Continued Raping of your Childhood Unless You Give Me Cash I didn't go see it, precisely because I knew it was going to be horrible. If I could, I'd delete all the trailers & ads I've seen from my brain.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
I was a big fan of Lucasfilm's Indy games. The Last Crusade took me back to enjoying the "hidden parts that never appeared in the movie".
But the Fate of Atlantis was even better. Just take a look at some Indy 4 screenshots.
First of all, you got this archaeological dig in Iceland. Then the Azores. Then the mayan jungle of Tikal. Also, you make a stop at Monaco and have a seance with the holder of an ancient atlantean disc. AND you have to rescue him from being kidnapped by the Nazis. Later, you go to the desert and have to deal with a greedy arab merchant. Later you take a balloon to Crete and find yourself trapped in THE labyrinth. Finally you have to steal a Nazi U-boat and get to the mythical city of Atlantis. And then you have to explore a new concentric maze to find the chamber of the gods before the Nazis - not before having a secret encounter with Nur-Ab-Sal, the evil spirit posessing the body of your new girlfriend.
This game became my new Indy standard, and this is why I wanted the Indy movie so much to have it. If you watched the latest Indy movie, play the game and you'll be more than cured.
Ah, look, there's a youtube screenshot collection with Indy's theme playing on the background!
"Indiana Jones in The Battle for the Final MacGuffin"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin
Top Ten Indiana Jones Sequel Pitches
10. Indiana Jones and the Hernia of Doom
9. Indiana Jones and the Island of Liver Spots
8. Raiders of the Golden Medicine Cabinet
7. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Kidney Stones
6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Fallen Arches
5. Raiders of the Lost Car Keys
4. Indiana Jones and the Wife Nearly Half His Age
3. Indiana Jones and Pirates of Rehash Reef
2. Raiders of the CG Lagoon
And the number one Indiana Jones Sequel...
1. Indiana Jones and th- Hey You Kids Get off My Lawn!
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The last movie was actually awful. Shia LaBoeuf is terrible, Harrison Ford was even campier than usual, the effects were "eh", and the story? Forget it. Even John Hurt didn't have much to work with. Let's always speak fondly of the Indiana Jones Trilogy (ok, maybe not the second one) and never speak of kingdoms of crystal skulls again.
Since Harrison Ford is getting up there... I'm not sure he's up the physically demanding role of Indiana Jones anymore, but... hey... anything could happen.
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As if you needed further evidence that George Lucas's "leave well enough alone already" detector is totally hosed...
Life would be easier if I had the source code.
Although ofcourse no other Indiana Jones could ever compare to Harrison Ford.
There can only be one Sean Connery as well...
Like, Indiana Jones and the Battle for Tenure.
I actually really liked IJ: KotCS. I have to admit though, I have a really nasty weakness for seriously unexpected plot twists, especially when they involve !! SPOILER ALERT !! SPOILER ALERT !! SPOILER ALERT !! aliens.
I guess I'm the only one... oh well.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Indiana Jones and The Search for More Money
"and he's also looking into re-releasing the six "Star Wars" films using new 3-D technology"
Oh dear god not again
...enough all ready. Time for something NEW, Lukas!
That old fart had two really good film ideas. With the first idea he got two really good films, Star Wars and Empire, and then 4 (soon 5) crappy empty sequels. The second idea, Raiders, resulted in one really good movie and one passable movie out of 3 sequels. I feel sorry for the sad joke he's become.
-- QED
Seriously. Things are bad enough.
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
Lucas could research better topics, namely why have all of his movies for the last 10 years sucked horribly?
meh
I emplore ALL of you to go and check out the episode "Free Hat" from Matt and Trey at Southpark studios, probably one of my most favourite episodes of the series and sums up George Lucas perfectly, I think some of you Americans are lucky enough to be able to stream from their homepage for free now too, foreigners - try mininova, cable tv or your local DVD store.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hat
Why don't you cry more about how bad Lucas's movies are, just don't see them, stop wasting money on movies you don't like and stop wasting my brain space.
Indiana Jones and the New Version of Dukem Nukem.
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Everyone knows why the fountain of youth is interesting.
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