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Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film
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on Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:36 AM
from the junior? dept.
from the junior? dept.
Alchemist253 writes "George Lucas has announced that the script for the long-rumored fourth Indiana Jones film has been finalized and is to begin filming this year, with Harrison Ford once again in front of the camera. From the article: 'In a statement, the 64-year-old Ford said he was ready for another turn as the globe-trotting archaeologist. "I'm delighted to be back in business with my old friends," he said. "I don't know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will."' All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?
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Maybe something like this. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.evilnet.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday August 30 2006, @12:30PM)
*CRACK*
"Shit! My back went again!"
Re:Maybe something like this. (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.theoryint.com/)
Nah, Panama Hat already said it best.... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://rahga.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 18 2005, @05:15PM)
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.
Re:Maybe something like this. (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday January 31 2007, @02:25AM)
Either the Nazis will come out of a time warp in the 1960s, or maybe they'll continue to set the movie pre-WWII and explain that Indiana aged 25 years instantly when he decided to open that box and peek inside the Ark, just for a second, with sunglasses on.
Re:Maybe something like this. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.hyperlogos.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @08:19PM)
What, they're putting Rick Berman and Brannon Braga on the team, too?
Re:Maybe something like this. (Score:5, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Monday November 03 2003, @03:59PM)
A twenty-years-aged Indy will probably be fighting cartoon Commies rather than cartoon Nazis. Perhaps Chinese ones.
Re:That's funny (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:That's funny (Score:5, Funny)
(http://stylus-toolbox.sf.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday May 15, @11:50AM)
Indiana Jones and the Annoying Alien from Naboo
JJ: "Meesa no liiiike Nazzzzziiis!!"
IJ: *crack* "Oh, my back!" *crack*
JJ: "Aaaaaggghh!!! Meesa no like bull whip!!!!"
Re:That's funny (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 06 2005, @05:24PM)
Anything that keeps Lucas from writing scripts deserves our support.
ObSNL (Score:5, Funny)
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shot in versus (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Monday February 04 2002, @03:31PM)
The originals were all done in the pulp-action adventure style that was popularized fifty and sixty years ago - I doubt that it'll somehow be less attractive now than it was when the genre was only thirty years old.
Also, all three may have been shot in the eighties, but they took place in the forties, so it's not like we're going to see an Indiana Jones trying to come to terms with teh Intarwebs.
On the other hand, twenty-some odd years later... hey, an Indiana Jones that took place in the sixties might have real potential.
Re:shot in versus (Score:5, Interesting)
What the entertainment industry lacks currently is light stuff like pulp fiction, be it books, movies, or tv shows (I will admit that the day and age of the radio drama are probably gone, though they could be revived via the use of netcasts).
I have honestly been goign back and reading some of the old stuff (before my time) jsut because it is hard to find anytihng like it that is current. After all, I can only take so many pieces that are trying to be high-brow/intelectual/witty/etc. Every so often I need something that is just pure release and nothing else.
Re:shot in versus (Score:4, Funny)
[Int. ancient temple. Indy's female love-interest-du-jour has a cartoonish Nazi at gunpoint.]
Indy: Bring out the Gimp.
Nazi: The Gimp is sleeping, Herr Jones.
Love-interest-du-jour: It's fantastic! The chamber must extend 60 meters...
Indy: Shit, they ain't got the metric system in ancient Egypt. They wouldn't know what the fuck a meter is.
Love-interest-du-jour: Then what would they call it?
Indy: A cubit.
[Love-interest-du-jour accidentally shoots Nazi in the head, splattering brains everywhere.]
Love-interest-du-jour: Oh man, I shot that Nazi in the face.
Indy: Why the fuck did you do that!
Love-interest-du-jour: Well, I didn't mean to do it, it was an accident!
Indy: Oh man I've seen some crazy ass shit in my time...
Love-interest-du-jour: Chill out, man. I told you it was an accident. You probably set off a booby trap by stepping on that "X" right there.
Indy: "X" never, ever marks the spot, bitch!
Love-interest-du-jour: Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a bitch. The gun went off. I don't know why.
Indy: No, let me ask you a question. When you came in here, did you see a hieroglyphic out in front of this temple that said Dead Nazi Storage?
Love-interest-du-jour: Indy, you know I ain't seen no...
Indy: Did you see a hieroglyphic out in front of this temple that said Dead Nazi Storage?
Love-interest-du-jour: [pause] No. I didn't.
Indy: You know WHY you didn't see that hieroglyphic?
Love-interest-du-jour: Why?
Indy: 'Cause it ain't there, 'cause storing dead Nazis ain't my fucking business, that's why!
Not to nitpick, but... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://justthings.info/ | Last Journal: Saturday December 09 2006, @05:17AM)
The open sequence in Raiders says "Peru, 1936."
Well there goes another one! (Score:5, Insightful)
Hopefully 2007 ushers in a year in which remakes, sequels, and adaptations give way to original and creative stories and ways to tell them.
Re:Well there goes another one! (Score:5, Informative)
(http://calum.org/)
Uh, fraid not. [bbc.co.uk]
Ok, George, I'll believe it when I see it (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Ok, George, I'll believe it when I see it (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday December 04 2006, @04:08PM)
So much for never (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:So much for never (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Shouldn't Ford be the helpful mentor by now? (Score:4, Funny)
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I'll take CGI over that, thank you very much.
If Indiana Jones Sr was around in pre-WWII Germany (Score:4, Funny)
That'll make Indiana Jones Jr. old enough for something like Indiana Jones and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
HCUUA: Sign the confession!
Jones Jr.: Gimme the whip!
HCUUA: No time to argue. Sign the confession, we give you the whip.
Jones Jr.: (signs the confession) Gimme the whip!
HCUUA: Adios, señor. (guards grab Indiana Jones Jr.)
Re:Oh boy! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yeah. Allegedly. In truth, what has lucas ever done that wasn't hokie and childish? The original Star Wars was actually pretty good, but Lucas deserves little credit for that. He lucked out in a major way with Harrison Ford, and Harrison Ford saved Star Wars. Try to imagine the movie with just whiny little Luke Skywalker. It just doesn't work.
Case in point, there is a video on youtube of behind the scenes footage from Empire Strikes Back. There is a great scene in Empire where Solo is being lowered in the carbonite pit and Leia shouts to him, "I love you!" Han looks up at her and say, "I know"
What a great scene! Well guess what, Lucas originally wrote it this way:
Leia: I love you
Han: I love you too.
Stop for a moment and let the deep, penetrating suckiness of those two lines seep into your being. George Lucas, sitting at his typewriter, no doubt in his underwear, actually typed that, and actually thought it was a good idea. He typed that crap, then he sat back and looked at what he had done and said, "hell yeah, I'm a bloody genius."
Fortunately, when it came time to film that scene, Irvin Kershner was calling the shots and Lucas was (presumably) in a crypt somewhere. Harrison Ford looked at the script and said, "this sucks" and Kershner agreed and they changed it. And we all remember Empire Strikes Back as a great movie.
Well, it is a great movie, but no thanks to Lucas.
If only we had known the truth, then maybe we wouldn't have been so shocked some years later when we were treated to Lucas' drivel in the form of such brain-numbing lines as "omfg sand is the suxor it gets in my eye LOL!!!11" and my personal favorite, "Noooo!!!!"
God, I hate George Lucas.
Re:Oh boy! (Score:5, Interesting)
If only it had been such an intentional alteration. In fact, the scene had so many takes that Ford had heard "I love you" so many times he finally replied "I know" half jokingly. They thought it fit Solo's character better and stuck with that line. The whole movie had to be re-edited at great expense because the first version was terrible. To get the movie we ended up with many of the scenes go right until the last frame of film that was shot to get them to work.
Re:Oh boy! (Score:5, Interesting)
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We Aren't Dead, Yet (Score:3, Insightful)
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Most of us who saw the originals are still alive today. Why wouldn't the characters translate well? The 80's were NOT that long ago. Sheesh!
Re:We Aren't Dead, Yet (Score:5, Insightful)
I know how you feel, but remember when your parents kept telling you when you were a kid about how cool the 60s were, and it felt like they were talking about a different geological era? Well, that's what these kids today think about the 80s. And much like our parents told us, we can tell today's youth that their music sux0rs compared to the stuff we had back in our day.
Of course, they were right.
No new ideas (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No new ideas (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://qntm.org/ | Last Journal: Saturday May 06 2006, @09:26AM)
There are plenty of new ideas around. Thousands, millions of them. You can bet your bottom dollar that Hollywood is absolutely crammed to bursting with smart, dynamic writers with amazingly edgy, groundbreaking, intelligent film scripts, any one of which could, if made, become an iconic classic, a milestone in modern cinema, a fixture of pop culture to come. You have your ideas, I'm sure. I know I do too. There is no shortage of ideas.
The problem is the, studios don't care about movies. They don't care about creating new icons. They care about money. And nothing else. And when you want to make money, you don't take risks, you make safe movies. Cash cows. Sequels to existing successful movies are by far the most reliable of these. Even most original movies you will find slot neatly into pre-existing genre templates. There's the teen comedy movie, the action movie, the romantic comedy, the animated kids' movie, and so on, and so on. It's all numbers.
The other problem is the viewing audience. They don't want to see new things. While there is less money at stake, they, too, want a safe movie. They go to movie theaters to see something they are pretty sure will entertain them. Out-there, avant-garde movies do not appeal to the general public - at least, not to the most profitable movie-going demographics. Therefore making a stunningly imaginative new movie is risky - it's a risk for punters to see it, which makes it a risk for studios to make it, which is why they are so rarely made.
Re:No new ideas (Score:4, Informative)
That being said, there are more indie movies available now that there ever were... you just have to see them on cable, or on netflix, or whatever.
Not one comeback - but two! (Score:5, Funny)
"George, Harrison and I are all very excited," Spielberg said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
I thought George Harrison has passed away? Or are they bringing him back as well as Indy? Just amazing what those boys at ILM can do...
Working Title (Score:5, Funny)
How will this one be? (Score:4, Informative)
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Depends on who has the most influence on the movie: if Spielberg then I think it'll be a fun romp, if Lucas then I'm afraid it'll turn into a moralistic pile o' crap (see "Star Wars Prequels").
Lucas has already said he's tried to reedit the earlier movies to make Indy more "heroic" (I believe that he wanted to edit or remove the "Indy pulls his guns on the sword wielding baddies and shots 'em dead on the spot" scene from the first film a'la "Greedo shoots first". Spielberg wouldn't allow him).
Re:How will this one be? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:How will this one be? (Score:5, Informative)
Ford improvisation - they had planned an elaborate sword vs. whip duel
(Indy had lost his gun someplace) but Ford was too sick to film it
and suggested "can't I just shoot him?".