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How Disney/Lucasfilm could bring Indiana Jones back
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It has.....on a thread I created which will sadly outlive us all: The Unnecessary Remake of the Week.
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Patrick Schoenmaker is a professional animator who's studio did this as an independent "proof of concept" back in 2016. He has worked professionally for Lucasfilm before, but there has been no indication there is any movement in this direction. But everyone who watches the short knows it would be a no brainer to do it.
I think a lot of people just assume everyone here is a big a fan of things like Star Wars as they are. I'm a huge Star Wars fan so I know most that kind of minutia, but I have run into that kind of thing with other franchises.I don't remember any of this. Why was Rowdy Roddy McDowall being such an ass over me not knowing about a bit part from a movie I haven't seen in 12 years? Is there something I am missing here?
From that list, I just follow Star Trek and Stargate.
That is tremendously awesome.
I don't remember any of this. Why was Rowdy Roddy McDowall being such an ass over me not knowing about a bit part from a movie I haven't seen in 12 years? Is there something I am missing here?
This kind of thing (the ignorance of Biggs) would bother me more, but I'm starting to realize what a dinosaur I am. I was flying with a copilot my daughter's age a couple weeks ago and casually asked him if he'd ever seen Goodfellas. I was asking as a way of starting the conversation, not imagining in a million years he actually had no idea what I was talking about. The blank stare I got back made me feel like the guy who drank from the wrong grail in The Last Crusade. Which he probably never saw either.
I do not dive anywhere near as deep into most fandoms as a lot of people do here on the TrekBBS. For most everything, I am what you'd call "the general movie goer." The only franchises I really dive deep into is Star Trek, Stargate, and... that's it.This kind of thing (the ignorance of Biggs) would bother me more, but I'm starting to realize what a dinosaur I am. I was flying with a copilot my daughter's age a couple weeks ago and casually asked him if he'd ever seen Goodfellas. I was asking as a way of starting the conversation, not imagining in a million years he actually had no idea what I was talking about. The blank stare I got back made me feel like the guy who drank from the wrong grail in The Last Crusade. Which he probably never saw either.
Why do we need a reboot that sandwiches Indy Jones & Lara Croft into some weird hybrid? If you're going to make this many changes, just call it something else.
I don't disagree. As Mike Stoklasa of Red Letter Media has observed, the character of Indiana Jones isn't all that special; he was conceived as a "generic action man," and while his bookish professor/rough-and-tumble archeologist gives him some character depth, he's hardly irreplaceable. What is irreplaceable, though, is the 1920s-30s setting, when people dressed all snazzy, Art Deco was en vogue, the world wasn't yet completely mapped, flashlights hadn't yet replaced fire torches, radio wasn't yet a thing, and the greatest/worst villains of all time, the Nazis, hadn't yet unleashed WW2, meaning they can be used as baddies without necessarily dealing with the acute horrors of the war itself.
So, by all means, lets have new and more adventurer characters in that time period. (I've long held, for instance, that The Mummy '99 is better than all Indy films apart from Raiders.) If Lucasfilm or anyone else is willing to give one a try, I'd be interested, and that's exactly why I suggested re-introducing a new Indy indirectly, as a secondary character, if that has to be done at all. I'd rather have an original character than a new Indy - but I'd rather have a new Indy than no 1920s/30s archeology-themed adventure flicks at all.
Uncharted and National Treasure are my go to.
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