You're spot on with that. Harrison Ford will be 78 years old when Indy 5 is released. A tank-to-horse-to-truck-jumping 78 year old.
Indiana Jones and the search for the remote By then it will just be a big screen adaptation of The Young Indiana Jones episode where Ford guest starred. Ford recounting an earlier adventure to someone. The majority of the movie will have a younger actor playing Indiana Jones. I'm sorry but with all of Harrison's accidents recently(two plane crashes and one Millennium falcon door pressing on your leg) Ford attempting any stunt would probably injure him.
This is gonna sound so awful, and I'm ashamed of myself for even thinking it... if they make it even a quarter of the way through production before Harrison Ford drops dead, I will be very shocked. I would rather Crystal Skull be our last memory of Indy than that.
I wish they would re record all of the bookends of that show with Harrison Ford, and re release the entire series on Bluray. Then they need to fill in all of the lost adventures with an animated series, while Ford can still do all of the voice work.
True. Instead of another meh Raiders sequel, we got something better! (NB. I'm not saying The Mummy '99 is better than Raiders itself, just its sequels - though I do love it more.)
I wonder what year the story will be set in. Indy was born in 1899, so he'd be 78 in 1977, which is not really a good year for a Pulp adventure. The early 60s are probably the last years that an Indy adventure would work, but that's really pushing it.
If the first three are 1930s serials, the fourth is a 1950s sci-fi B-movie, then maybe a fifth set in the 1970s would be a political thriller like Seven Days in May? That's not what I'd want from an Indiana Jones movie, but you never know.
Times a million. KotCS is the only film that I left the theatre actually angry at what I'd just witnessed. It is now dead to me along with Superman IV and a few others.
Or a Star Wars/Battlestar Galactica style space fantasy… Or a Roger Moore/James Bond type spy comedy... Or maybe Indy In 'Nam war movie!
I can't believe this is even being considered the age Ford will be in 2020. The last was was pushing it. This is ludicrous.
As long as there are no more fast and furious action scenes like in Indy 4, I'm fine. That said, Harrison Ford is too old for this. Why didn't they keep Chris Pratt (as rumored at first) to play a younger Indy, and make a story where an adventure of his past were to connect to his older self (played, of course, by Ford)?
I suppose that could work on some level. I'm more than happy for them to just let it go and stop making them.