I hope you all have had a lovely Christmas and a very merry New Year, I saw this the other day on The Metro Newspsper's website and really couldn't believe what I was reading...there will be ANOTHER Indiana Jones movie.
You may or may not have heard this news but according to Metro.com in an interview with Bloomberg CEO of Disney Bob Iger spoke of "...more great stories with George Lucas' Star Wars-and Indiana Jones, by the way which will be coming..."
Now I'm an avid fan of these films but "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull" was just crap, and to me it seemed like nobody involved with this film knew what they were doing story wise as what the hell was going on with the Russians wanting some crystal alien head to achieve all knowledge and to achieve great power,-now that I think about it this sounds like to me that the writers involved with this film maybe got carried away with how two of these films involved Harrison Ford's character Indiana Jones having to find very powerful historical artefacts before the Nazi's try to obtain them in order to take over the world such as The Ark Of The Covenant or The Holy Grail, and how in "Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom" Indiana Jones has to stop an age old dormant cult from rising back to power when they steal three powerful religious stones, one of these stones having been stolen from an Indian village where they have a shrine dedicated to it as well as this cult stealing all this village's children to work in a mine where the leader of this cult hoped to find 2 more of these stones as originally there were 5-.
So I hope with this idea for there to be another Indiana Jones film being supported by both Disney Studios chairman Bob Horn and the director of these films Steven Spielberg still being interested in doing these films with him saying:
" So as long as there's more adventure's out there, I've got a bullwhip, a fedora, a leather jacket and a man on a horse who knows how to get the job done".
that I hope that this film will in the words of Ralph Fiennes from the James Bond film Skyfall "Don't cock it up" and will hopefully be a hell of a lot better than "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull"!
And I have also just seen on metro.com's website that Harrison Ford has reportedly told Entertainment Weekly that:
" Yeah I'd love to do another Indiana Jones. A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director-what's not to like?"
But this to me sounds very different to after "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull" came out as I remember reading in a newspaper that Harrison Ford hated that movie and thought it was a terrible idea to bring Indiana Jones back...I guess somebody has told him he might get a lot more money if he returned for another film if there ever was another film.
But also according to metro.com Harrison Ford would be turning 79 this year so I'm thinking something has to be done about that, either have a new person in as Indiana Jones and have an idea like a professor has been hired by the museum to get priceless historical artefacts from around the world, and they get thrown into this action adventure world where he's not the only person after the historical artefact that the museum wants and that he has to muddle through and be prepared for people doing anything and everything imaginable to stop him from getting the artefacts and getting hold of these for themselves...and I was thinking that this new film should definitely keep the joke in that the curator of the museum once got lost in his own museum and now that I've just thought about it this could tie in with having the idea that the curator of the museum is completely oblivious to the methods that Indiana Jones a.k.a Dr. Henry Jones employs to getting hold of these priceless historical artefacts.
And it looks like I'm not the only one that has had this idea of replacing Harrison Ford with another actor as according to both metro.com and screendailiy.com there has been rumours going round that Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper are just some of the names being suggested to play Indiana Jones.
But according to screendaily.com Steven Spielberg has already said in an interview with Screen International that:
"I don't think anyone could replace Harrison as Indy, I don't think that's ever going to happen..."
He goes on to say that:
" It's certainly not my intention to ever have another actor step into his shoes in the way there have been many actors that have played Spider-Man or Batman. There is only going to be one actor playing Indiana Jones and that's Harrison Ford."
As well as this Frank Marshall the producer has also said of these rumours according to an interview with Total Film that:
" There are a lot of rumours. We haven't even sat down to talk about Indy yet...at some point we'll sit down. But there's a bunch of people who could probably take the baton."
He goes on to say that:
" We're not doing the Bond thing where we're going to call somebody else Indiana Jones...we have to figure this out".
So, it sounds like this needs to be figured out quick smartish as I think if the filmmakers get Harrison Ford back to do all the action when he's 79 it'll be really cringey to watch the movie in cinemas and then audiences will just see on the end credits of the film loads of names of different stuntmen that had to do the stunts and it'll probably just look non amazing stunts with CGI poorly cut and pasted into the film like in "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull", which totally in my mind detracts from these films as in "Indiana Jones and The Ark Of The Covenant" there is that legendary stunt where someone goes all the way underneath a moving truck to the back of the truck just get back inside to have a fight with one of the bad guys and is now tried to be replicated in lots of films I've seen nowadays and it'll look like why on earth didn't you retire grandpa and get someone that can do stunts and look like they can pull them off...it'll probably be cheaper for the filmmakers as now I think about it if they don't have to employ so many stuntmen which will probably increase the size of the crew.
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