Indiana Jones 5. It's official.

[STEPhon IT]

Nazis again??? I can wait for it to premiere on Disney Plus, like "The Rise of Skywalker", when the well is dry and the people in charge are creatively bankrupt they have to rely on the villain which couldn't possibly fit in an era where their time has passed on. Indiana Jones is closing in on 80 years old, and he's still fighting Nazis in 1970??? 13 years since the last Indiana Jones movie and all of that time these producers could only imagine him to face... another Nazi. Not a villain which would be appropriate for its own era. Woke culture strikes again. YAWN!

 

[FormerLurker]

The '70s were rife with films and books about Nazi's who got away and were about to unleash a 4th Reich on the world. Stories like Boys from Brazil and real-life cases like Mengele and Eichmann (60s but close enough) were common TV, film and book fodder.

I remember an episode of Wonder Woman doing this, with the inestimable Barry Dennen doing his best primal scream as a Hitler clone.

 

[Saul]

Set photos gleam some light into possible story. Props are being set up in Scotland

Looks to have a serpent deity craving or something? Lots of intertwining design on it

That would certainly scare Indiana Jones. A 100 foot mythical snake. could it be representing Jörmungandr?

That looks Celtic to me. Maybe Indy will be taking a trip to Ireland?

 

[publiusr]

I remember an episode of Wonder Woman doing this, with the inestimable Barry Dennen doing his best primal scream as a Hitler clone.

Deflating like hot air..apt

 

[FreezeC77]

I would love to see Indiana Jones deal with Norse mythology.

Asgard?

 

[Samurai8472]

More set photos

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...-scenes-dead-night-North-Yorkshire-Moors.html

A flashback scene like in "The Last Crusade"?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Flashback is my speculation too. We never actually saw Indiana Jones in the films during WWII. Just in the years leading up to it. I think an opening with Indy on a mission against the Nazis in the final days of the war would be great.

For years I have wished someone would take Harrison Ford’s WWII films Hanover Street and Force 10 from Navorone and make a fan edit of a unseen Indiana Jones adventure. Say he was working undercover for Army Intelligence under different aliases. Which is what he did during WWI on Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

 

[JD]

I wonder if we'll be getting a deaged Harrison Ford, or a younger actor for the flashback.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I wonder if we'll be getting a deaged Harrison Ford, or a younger actor for the flashback.

I’d say de-ageing (assuming that Indy is even in the scene, which may not be the case), but I imagine that Sean Patrick Flannery is sitting by the phone this weekend just in case.

 

[Tuskin38]

There was a image taken of someone holding a face mask.

 

[Captaindemotion]

There was a shot take of someone holding a face mask.

Probably a mix of stuntman/lookalike/digitally de-aged Harrison then?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Probably a mix of stuntman/lookalike/digitally de-aged Harrison then?

Good guess. Even from that limited view of that mask it certainly looks like Harrison Ford.

Could they cast a new actor as a younger Indy in the future? Certainly but I highly doubt it would be for a time period in which we already saw Harrison play the role. If that happens it would likely be between 1920, when we last saw Sean Patrick Flanery and 1935, when Temple of Doom takes place.

I was originally going to end this with - I was a fan of Flanery in the role but he is 55 now. But I looked up current pictures of him - he is a black belt in Jiu Jitsu and looks really damn good! Wish my Dad was still around to share that - he was a 7th degree Black Belt in Judo. Who could have kicked most people’s ass until his 70s. Which applies to anyone who thinks Harrison is too old as well! LOL

 

[Nightowl1701]

Could they cast a new actor as a younger Indy in the future? Certainly but I highly doubt it would be for a time period in which we already saw Harrison play the role. If that happens it would likely be between 1920, when we last saw Sean Patrick Flanery and 1935, when Temple of Doom takes place.

Ford's insisted there be no recast for future movies - he's Indy, the role dies with him. There's maybe a little wiggle room as far as ancillary stuff (video games, maybe an animated series), but live-action is off-limits once he's gone. So you better believe the Mouse is throwing the kitchen sink at this, because - unless they've somehow managed to sign a posthumous 'all-digital actor' deal with Ford - one shot's all they're getting.

 

[EnderAKH]

I wonder if we'll be getting a deaged Harrison Ford, or a younger actor for the flashback.

Young Indy will be played by Alden Ehrenreich.


What?

 

[publiusr]

Now I would have had Indy talking to Borges…played by Bardem…looking for the Aleph.

Indiana Jones and the Library of Babel…

 

[Dick Whitman]

Ford's insisted there be no recast for future movies - he's Indy, the role dies with him. There's maybe a little wiggle room as far as ancillary stuff (video games, maybe an animated series), but live-action is off-limits once he's gone. So you better believe the Mouse is throwing the kitchen sink at this, because - unless they've somehow managed to sign a posthumous 'all-digital actor' deal with Ford - one shot's all they're getting.

To be clear there is part of me that support the idea of that.... BUT

Do you seriously believe that “promise” will be maintained? I doubt it’s even part of his contract. This is Hollywood. More specifically Disney. Everything is eventually remade and recast. Especially these days. Anything that is promised to never continue is undone when money is seen to still be made. Back to the Future might be an exception because Gale and Zemeckis own the characters. Not Universal. But even Bob Gale admitted they could be sneaky and try to go around it, once they are gone I hope not to see Universal try.

My point is in Hollywood nothing is NEVER or FOREVER. Ownership of films, characters eventually change hands. Who runs studios change. What mega corporations own the studios change often. George Lucas said in 2005 there would be no more Star Wars movies and meant it.... at the time.

After Harrison Ford dies at the age of 110 someone at the Mouse will announce a new Indiana Jones film.... social media will decry DisneyMonolith ignoring their promise to him... but it still gets made anyways,

 

[Samurai8472]

Young Indy will be played by Alden Ehrenreich.


What?

Been there. Done that

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[DigificWriter]

People really need to stop using "Disney" as some catchall corporate pejorative.

Lucasfilm is the one making decisions about and controlling the fates of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and Kathleen Kennedy would absolutely make - and put in writing - an agreement that the mainline Indiana Jones film series ends with Harrison.

And since she picks who succeeds her as the head of Lucasfilm, she'd absolutely make sure that said agreement was honored in the future by choosing someone who shares her sense of integrity and respect for Harrison as a person and as a performer.

 

[kirk55555]

Ford's insisted there be no recast for future movies - he's Indy, the role dies with him. There's maybe a little wiggle room as far as ancillary stuff (video games, maybe an animated series), but live-action is off-limits once he's gone. So you better believe the Mouse is throwing the kitchen sink at this, because - unless they've somehow managed to sign a posthumous 'all-digital actor' deal with Ford - one shot's all they're getting.

Does he own the rights to the character? If not, they can do literally whatever they want. What does his opinion matter to them? Harrison Ford is 78 years old. After Indy 5, Disney probably won't care if he gets pissed off and doesn't want to work with them. Han Solo is basically done in live action outside of a continuation of Solo, so its not like they need to keep him happy for future projects. At most, some of the people at Disney might respect him enough to wait until he passes to recast the role, but if they think there is any chance that people will want an Indiana Jones movie at that point, they'll make it.

Really, if what you say is true, its pretty arrogant of him to act like that. He was great in the role, but other people could also be great in the role. He didn't create Indiana Jones, and has no more ownership over the character then 99% of actors have over characters they play. If things the original Star Trek cast can get rebooted and recast (some of them twice), then Indiana Jones can be. Would it/will it be good? I don't know, but for me Indiana Jones as a franchise is sitting at two classic films and two crappy films right now, so a reboot would probably have even odds to be good or bad.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I forgot to add -

I have a deep suspicion that Harrison Ford does not really care that much what happens to Indiana Jones without him. Anyone who has watched him in interviews has seen him put on this grumpy, I do not give a shit attitude. Those questions about recasting Indiana Jones were presented to him while promoting other movies. I imagine he was annoyed to answer a question that was a complete hypothetical he has little control of.

He was the same way for years when asked about Star Wars until he was involved again. Than he was back onboard and a team player which including support of Alden Ehrenreich and Solo.