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Spielberg won't do Indy 5

At the risk of pretentiousness, Mangold consistently makes solid flicks, whereas Spielberg sometimes makes great films, and often makes legitimately important ones. So, if this frees Spielberg to deliver another Lincoln/Bridge of Spies/The Post sooner rather than later, I'm all for it, particularly given my lack of enthusiasm for his West Side Story remake.
Yea I am hoping he will fast track that Ready Player One Sequel.
 
Because then technically it wouldn't be Indy? If another adventurer, it would have to be a spinoff. You can't have it be a different adventurer and still have it be called Indy.
If it's about a kid or grand kid, it could still be if they are Henry Jones III or IV, and they take on the Indiana nickname is honor of the original. That would be the best way IMO to continue on the series past Harrison Ford, just give us a whole new Indy. It would also leave things open for appreances by Ford, John Rhys Davies or Karen Allen, all playing their original characters.
 
You could have him be Mutt's kid, and have it set in the modern day but, half (or more) of the charm of the Indy Movies is the period setting. Like Star Wars it's a big screen Republic movie serial.
 
Mangold is a good director but I don’t really recall seeing anything by him with that sense of fun and adventure that the Indy movies had at their best. Doesn’t mean he can’t find it now, of course.

While not an adventure film per se, Ford V Ferrari was quite entertaining, dramatic with a good dose of fun. And those car racing scenes...

he's a very good choice for the franchise.
 
If it's about a kid or grand kid, it could still be if they are Henry Jones III or IV, and they take on the Indiana nickname is honor of the original.

If related, then I suppose so. And seeing as he's not even the first in his family with the name, I guess it could work. But if it's a totally unrelated person, then I don't know if that would work as well.
 
It's a shame Disney doesn't own Uncharted, Nathan Drake pretty much is a modern day Indiana Jones, so all you'd need to do to make it part of the Indy series is throw in a came by Harrison Ford as Nathan's grandfather.
 
It sucks that Crystal Skull already ruined the "Indy passes the torch to his kid" thing, because that really could have worked for this, if we didn't have to consider mutt and that bad movie in general. I'd watch another Indiana Jones movie, but its really not something I'm enthusiastic for at this point.
 
Because then technically it wouldn't be Indy? If another adventurer, it would have to be a spinoff. You can't have it be a different adventurer and still have it be called Indy.
Granted, but Disney's got virtually infinite funds. If anyone could start a new pre-1950s adventure franchise, with the ad campaign blaring "From the studio behind INDIANA JONES," it's them.

... Though, not gonna lie, if Alden Ehrenreich wanted a shot at the part, I'd say let him. :p
 
You could have him be Mutt's kid, and have it set in the modern day but, half (or more) of the charm of the Indy Movies is the period setting. Like Star Wars it's a big screen Republic movie serial.
Do modern audiences even know what those are these days? All the movies and series we see now being set in the 80s are just as far removed as the serials were from Raiders of the Lost Ark, perhaps those are the new "period" pieces.
 
While not an adventure film per se, Ford V Ferrari was quite entertaining, dramatic with a good dose of fun. And those car racing scenes...

he's a very good choice for the franchise.

I was going to caveat my post by saying I hadn’t seen that one, because it did look fun from the trailers.

I would agree too, as others have said, that he’s an old-school quality filmmaker, it’s not like they’ve handed it to Michael Bay or the like.
 
I was going to caveat my post by saying I hadn’t seen that one, because it did look fun from the trailers.

I would agree too, as others have said, that he’s an old-school quality filmmaker, it’s not like they’ve handed it to Michael Bay or the like.

I don’t mind early Michael Bay, but he’s such a stylist that it would hard to make it look like the rest of the movies. And where would be stick big explosions and lingering shots of women?

Ok. The sexist part of Bay I don’t like so much.
 
And yet, Stephen Sommers, Brendan Fraser, and Rachel Weisz made a better companion piece to Raiders of the Lost Ark than any of the actual IJ sequels, so... :p

No.

Raiders is vastly eclipsed by all 3 of its successor films, with Crystal Skull and Temple of Doom at the top.
 
I meant exactly what I typed.

Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, and Crystal Skull are all better than Raiders.
Wow, I'm definitely going to have disagree here. I'd say Last Crusade is pretty close, but there is no way I would ever consider Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as good as or especially better, than Raiders of the Last Ark.
 
Temple of Doom is such a different kind of movie in terms of tone than its predecessor and it almost doesn't fit in with the others. Watching it recently, I was actually quite surprised how much gore there was.
 
Temple of Doom is such a different kind of movie in terms of tone than its predecessor and it almost doesn't fit in with the others. Watching it recently, I was actually quite surprised how much gore there was.

Lucas wanted it to be darker to follow the pattern established by Star Wars, where the second one was much darker.

Taking a guy's heart out while he is still living is pretty twisted stuff.
 
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