Anson Mount would make a good new Indy, he has that rugged looks and charm
Indiana Jones 5. It's official.
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Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are my two favorite Indy films, and no-one can convince me to change my mind.
ToD is classic Pulp Horror in the best way, and KotCS is a glorious mashup of Sci-Fi B movie brilliance and the Adventure Serials that inspired Indy's creation.
ToD is classic Pulp Horror in the best way, and KotCS is a glorious mashup of Sci-Fi B movie brilliance and the Adventure Serials that inspired Indy's creation.
Tomb Raider is more like Indy than Uncharted is, IMO.
Maybe they can get Harrison to refilm all the Old Indy wraparounds for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. I say that jokingly, but I would actually love a Blu-ray remaster of the entire series in single-episode form (not the weird "movies" they made for the DVDs) with newly written material for Ford as Old Indy.
Have Indy head off to Vietnam just as the war is ending to find a bottle that supposedly has a genie in it. He gets help from his daughter and a old colleague and a brother and sister team from there who are Vietnamese. The brother is also a love interest for the daughter. The bad guys are a rogue American team who have killed innocent people and basically the type of soliders you see in ever Vietnam war movie and Chinese exploiters who want to steal the ancient bottle.
Eventually Indy and team get the two sets of bad guys to kill each other and it turns out the genie is real. She grants a wish to the daughter who gets to the bottle first. Presto! Harrison Ford is now young and any movie star they want to reboot the character with for future movies. The daughters wish was for her dad to be young again and less jaded because like lots of people in the 70's the War and Nixon made them bitter about the world.
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Eventually Indy and team get the two sets of bad guys to kill each other and it turns out the genie is real. She grants a wish to the daughter who gets to the bottle first. Presto! Harrison Ford is now young and any movie star they want to reboot the character with for future movies. The daughters wish was for her dad to be young again and less jaded because like lots of people in the 70's the War and Nixon made them bitter about the world.
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He could meet a fuzzy-faced movie producer who wants to film the story of his life.
They do have some leeway, and I hope they use it.
I don't think a political thriller per se is Indy's thing, but if it's in the 70s it could involve Russians and Detente, which could be interesting.
Disappointed. I felt that 80s Dark & Gritty had poisoned Indy.
I'd much rather have a descendant than a recasting.
This is the line of thought I came to-- either a Lost Horizon kind of thing, or a Lovecraftian underground city in Antarctica perhaps. Something that insulates the movie from the 70s. And I love the 70s. I was a teenager then. But I don't think the decade suits Indy.
That would be a nice touch.
Indiana Jones: Naked and Afraid. But an African adventure would be an opportunity to homage the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies.Just stick him in the deepest jungles of Africa and no cell phone or tech works.
Now this is a good idea for an Indy movie in the 70s.
Not this part, but the rest of it.
I think what surprises me most about Temple of Doom is its rating. It got a PG rating while it prompted the need for a PG-13 rating (it came out before the PG-13 rating was made available), but I don't really find either rating all that suitable given what goes on in the movie. A PG or PG-13 rating feels rather misleading for this movie while an R rating would have been far more suitable. Having watched it not that long ago, I was shocked at how brutal it was for something with a PG rating. It just doesn't seem adequate.
I think the myth surrounding The Lost City of Z would make for an interesting place for them to visit. Plenty of snakes and disease-ridden bugs according to the book I read. Have a feeling Indy would love it.
I think the myth surrounding The Lost City of Z would make for an interesting place for them to visit. Plenty of snakes and disease-ridden bugs according to the book I read. Have a feeling Indy would love it.
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Ever since I've heard Chris Pratt it's been hard to shake.
That's where my mind went, 70s seems like "Lost World" (not Jurassic Pakr) kind of territory.
Ooh, ooh, we've long known the libraries were burned to the ground. But what if there's a rumor that the entire contents were copied, and the originals hidden in the desert somewhere so that when the city burned, all that knowledge was safe?
One of the major archaeological finds of the 70's was the Terracotta Army in China. Something might be done with that. Plus the Chinese connection might mean some box office in China. Toss in some well known Chinese actors (Michelle Yeoh?) Plus the return of Short Round!
Actually, I remember reading a study a few years ago that suggested the possibility that the Library of Alexandria was slowly depleted of its contents prior to its burning. Not as suddenly tragic, but still sad. I don't remember how verified and wide-believed that theory is but it sounds plausible.
Edit: Found it (although it was actually closer to seven years ago). Yeah, it's io9 but it is one of their far better written articles with lots of quotes and sources (although one of the links is broken now).
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Might be too close to The Mummy and the Dragon Emperor.
Didn't see it.
Yes, and it would make for a great title: Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Z.
I definitely think that's the way to go.
I love the Alexandria idea. The remnants of the Library are guarded by an immortal Hypatia, like the knight in Last Crusade. Make it a bit of an homage to She.
Jonathan Ke Quan recently said during The Goonies reunion that he has gotten back into acting...
Yes, and it would make for a great title: Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Z.
Actually, after realizing it, that's not even the lost city I was thinking of, although I did see the movie that this story was about. The one I was actually thinking of was The Lost City of the Monkey God, which sounds even more Indiana Jones-y.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40873920-the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god
https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/4/1...he-monkey-god-interview-honduras-civilization
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^ I approve of the title
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