I just want the sense of adventure and wonderment back. Crystal Skull had none of that. The tomb in Peru, and when they found the lost city of Akator, should've been nice, wonderful moments in the film. But it was just kinda....blah.
Disney now controls Indiana Jones as well...
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When I first started getting interested in writing films, one of the very frst things I did was write a 30 page treatment of a story idea, called The Seven Mirrors of the Wind. It had it all: Nazis, a rogue priest, flight from Germany as war was about to be declared, thrilling chases, a storm at sea, a lost temple. Reread it recently, still holds up pretty well.
Can't find anyone to send it to, though. This makes me very sad.
Can't find anyone to send it to, though. This makes me very sad.
Send it to Summit. If they reject it, just send an email back saying "This from the studio that made the Twilight movies?!"When I first started getting interested in writing films, one of the very frst things I did was write a 30 page treatment of a story idea, called The Seven Mirrors of the Wind. It had it all: Nazis, a rogue priest, flight from Germany as war was about to be declared, thrilling chases, a storm at sea, a lost temple. Reread it recently, still holds up pretty well.
Can't find anyone to send it to, though. This makes me very sad.
Seriously though. It sounds cool. Do you know anyone that knows anyone that knows Steven Spielberg or JJ Abrams?
I think if you send out scripts without having an agent, you are (going to be) screwed anyway.
The chances of selling a spec screenplay for an existing property are pretty much zero. There have only been a couple of such sales that I can think of, neither of which were actually produced. The spec market is tough, but if you want to give it a go you need to write a complete original screenplay, not just a treatment, and then try to get an agent interested.
Right. Doing spec scripts for existing properties is something you do as a demo, to give producers an example of your writing abilities. If that gets their interest, then they'd work with you to develop a new story. Often TV producers prefer to read spec scripts for other shows instead of their own shows, so that they can look at them without insider bias and assess the writer's abilities more fairly.
I'm finding it extremely difficult to imagine an Indy movie starring Kermit not being far better than an Indy 5 starring Ford.
Indiana Frog & The Secret of the Sacred Marsh
I'd honestly be more excited about seeing something like this than an actual sequel at this point.
I'm envisioning the reverse: Harrison Ford as Indy going up against Animal ... and losing.
Pretty much what these guys said. I knew trhe chances of selling it would be zero, but I wrote it down anyway as a useful exercise. And in my completely unbiased opinion, it's better than KotCS. Completely unbiased.
I'm ready for IJ5....and I love all 4 films. That's right ALL FOUR!!
IMO, the first half is decent, the second half is horrible.
I'm with you.
And how is that a win by your definition? At least with Lucas and Spielberg doing the stories in tandem, they worked. God knows what we're going to get with whoever's going to direct and write the movies now (the best we could hope for is J.J., but he's doing Star Wars.)
Me too, bring on the sequels! There're are literally dozens of great archaeological mysteries out there to mine potential stories from and there is no one I'd rather see investigate them than Indy, even if it's a different actor.
Yes they might suck but so does not having new Indiana adventures. Better for them to try and fail than to leave the property laying fallow and useless.
Here's my idea for an Indiana Jones flick:
This movie would be set in the 1960s (about early-to-mid) and have Indiana looking for another alien artifact (similar to the Crystal Skulls) one step ahead of an organization similar to SPECTRE and THRUSH. The artifact would be the Solar Grail, a device that would be considered magic here on Earth (like the Skulls) but actually a technological device; in this case, a power source that's clean and better than nuclear, oil, or coal (much like the Cosmic Cube was in the recent Marvel movies.) The organization wants it to stage a world takeover, because it's a solar device that can lay waste to things; Indiana of course believes that it can be used for good rather than evil. The action would be located in North America and Europe (the device having crash-landed someplace in Canada in Nunavut aboard the ship it was on) and would be an Indiana Jones adventure, but with a 1960's feel.
So, have I got a great story, or what?
This movie would be set in the 1960s (about early-to-mid) and have Indiana looking for another alien artifact (similar to the Crystal Skulls) one step ahead of an organization similar to SPECTRE and THRUSH. The artifact would be the Solar Grail, a device that would be considered magic here on Earth (like the Skulls) but actually a technological device; in this case, a power source that's clean and better than nuclear, oil, or coal (much like the Cosmic Cube was in the recent Marvel movies.) The organization wants it to stage a world takeover, because it's a solar device that can lay waste to things; Indiana of course believes that it can be used for good rather than evil. The action would be located in North America and Europe (the device having crash-landed someplace in Canada in Nunavut aboard the ship it was on) and would be an Indiana Jones adventure, but with a 1960's feel.
So, have I got a great story, or what?
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I think they need to stay away from alien artifacts....
THERE...ARE...THREE...FILMS!
We nearly got Tom Selleck as Indy, and Sean Young as Marion. That would have resulted in a differently feeling film. Which is why I am absolutely against recasting.
You should be naked in front of the screens when you say that
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