Spielberg won't do Indy 5

[TheAlmanac]

In general, I like Young Indy, though it's more interested in random historical cameos than telling an actual story a little too often and the DVD presentation (reordering it and re-editing it chronologically instead of as broadcast) leaves a lot to be desired.

The video edits are baffling and create a lot more issues without providing much benefit to compensate...although I appreciate that one of the results was getting a few more stories filmed, they don't fit naturally together as movies except for the ones which were made that way to being with (and a couple of stories which were two-parters in all but name).

I still think of the events of the series as having happened in their original (carefully planned out, more historically accurate) chronology in Indy's life--and the last time I rewatched the series, I ordered the hours accordingly and accepted the fragmented consequences.

I also believe in Old Indy as he appeared in the show's bookends.

If Disney+ decided to take the unfilmed scripts and make a new Young Indy series, recast obviously, I'd watch it in a heartbeat.

I'd settle for Disney+ making the original edits of the series available--but I imagine neither is possible because the rights to the series are held by Paramount.

 

[Saul]

With all the delays that have happened one wonders what are the chances this gets pushed back more which will get to a point where Ford won't do it.

 

[JD]

The video edits are baffling and create a lot more issues without providing much benefit to compensate...although I appreciate that one of the results was getting a few more stories filmed, they don't fit naturally together as movies except for the ones which were made that way to being with (and a couple of stories which were two-parters in all but name).

I still think of the events of the series as having happened in their original (carefully planned out, more historically accurate) chronology in Indy's life--and the last time I rewatched the series, I ordered the hours accordingly and accepted the fragmented consequences.

I also believe in Old Indy as he appeared in the show's bookends.


I'd settle for Disney+ making the original edits of the series available--but I imagine neither is possible because the rights to the series are held by Paramount.

Have we heard yet if the Indy movies are going to be on Disney+ or Hulu? I could see them going either way. I would think they're a little violent for Disney+, but Avatar and the Star Wars movies are on there, and they're not that much worse then them. I know they're on Netflix now, but I'm assuming once that contract is up Disney is going to want to get them on one of their services.

 

[Ovation]

Have we heard yet if the Indy movies are going to be on Disney+ or Hulu? I could see them going either way. I would think they're a little violent for Disney+, but Avatar and the Star Wars movies are on there, and they're not that much worse then them. I know they're on Netflix now, but I'm assuming once that contract is up Disney is going to want to get them on one of their services.

Did Disney buy Paramount?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Did Disney buy Paramount?

They bought Lucasfilm which owns the Indiana Jones franchise.

 

[Ovation]

They bought Lucasfilm which owns the Indiana Jones franchise.

Ah. Guess I'll have to wait a bit longer for that Star Trek/Star Wars crossover everyone's been talking about all over the internet.

(Hey, what're you lookin' at? It is NOT a fever induced hallucination...no..no...not the gumdrop buttons!!! Help!!!)

 

[Qonundrum]

I'm sure he's prepping for Indy 6.

That's too soon. He's already working on "Indy 8, Ain't That Great?"

 

[Qonundrum]

The original plan back in the Eighties was for 5 movies. The completist in me will be glad to see that.

I also want to see more Indy movies set back in the 20s to the 40s with a younger actor, but not a reboot, have them in continuity with the Ford movies. The only stumbling block is that Ford doesn't want a recast. And if he doesn't give his blessing to the new actor it won't work.

That's an interesting development. What prompted the cessation of the series after "Last Crusade" (1989)?

The 4th movie was just wackadoo.

What will the 5th one be, Harrison Ford waddling around the sets saying how Indy was just a fictional character to the other characters? (Something not unlike an inversion of how the 1990s Brady Bunch movies were made; instead of putting the fake family in real life they put the actor in the fictional world. I wonder if such an Indy movie would be cobbled together piecemeal from a gaggle of plot set-pieces not unlike how the 90s BB movies were done... at least the BB movies were comedies/parodies and not trying to be legitimate adventure genre that Indy was...)

 

[JD]

Ah. Guess I'll have to wait a bit longer for that Star Trek/Star Wars crossover everyone's been talking about all over the internet.

(Hey, what're you lookin' at? It is NOT a fever induced hallucination...no..no...not the gumdrop buttons!!! Help!!!)

Did you not realize that Disney bought Lucasfilm? That happened back in 2012.
Star War has never been associated with Paramount, the movies have all been produced by Lucasfilm, and the original trilogy and prequels were distributed by Fox, and everything since Disney bought Lucasfilm has been handled by them.
As for Indy, they were produced by Lucasfilm, and distributed by Paramount, so Lucasfilm owns all of the rights.

 

[Ovation]

Did you not realize that Disney bought Lucasfilm? That happened back in 2012.
Star War has never been associated with Paramount, the movies have all been produced by Lucasfilm, and the original trilogy and prequels were distributed by Fox, and everything since Disney bought Lucasfilm has been handled by them.
As for Indy, they were produced by Lucasfilm, and distributed by Paramount, so Lucasfilm owns all of the rights.

I had simply forgotten that the Indy films were part of Lucasfilm, rather than Paramount properties outright.

 

[Captaindemotion]

What will the 5th one be, Harrison Ford waddling around the sets saying how Indy was just a fictional character to the other characters? (Something not unlike an inversion of how the 1990s Brady Bunch movies were made; instead of putting the fake family in real life they put the actor in the fictional world. I wonder if such an Indy movie would be cobbled together piecemeal from a gaggle of plot set-pieces not unlike how the 90s BB movies were done... at least the BB movies were comedies/parodies and not trying to be legitimate adventure genre that Indy was...)

I think you’re mixing up BB with the Bewitched remake. The joke in the BB movies was that everyone and everything else was in the 1990s but the Brady family were still living in the 1970s - haircuts, clothes, architecture, slang etc.