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A Fifth Indiana Jones Movie Slated for 2019
Old Indy from “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”
“It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage”:
Indiana Jones will return to the big screen on July 19, 2019, for a fifth epic adventure in the blockbuster series. Steven Spielberg, who directed all four previous films, will helm the as-yet-untitled project with star Harrison Ford reprising his iconic role. Franchise veterans Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will produce.
“Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history, and we can’t wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019,” said Alan Horn, Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios. “It’s rare to have such a perfect combination of director, producers, actor and role, and we couldn’t be more excited to embark on this adventure with Harrison and Steven.”
Famed archaeologist and explorer Indiana Jones was introduced in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark – one of AFI’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time – and later thrilled audiences in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The four films have brought in nearly $2 billion at the global box office.
Ummm, yeah. So … we all love Harrison Ford (at least those of us over 40) but in the last Star Wars movie, Han Solo looked like a character in a late-night ad on Fox News. When the new Indy is released in 2019, the actor will be 77 years old.
Unless they’re naming it Indiana Jones and the Pain-Free Catheter, maybe Spielberg should just have him look for the Fountain of Youth and do the whole thing as a spoof.
What do you think, Ricochetti? Is this fifth Indy film a bad idea or the worst idea ever?
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As awful as The Revenant was it’s innocent on that front. The bear who attacks DiCaprio’s character was a female.
Just imagine a rebooted Pretty In Pink, with today’s mental disorders inserted into it…
“Can’t, already threw out my back!”
True, but apart from a couple of the Roger Moore flicks, I quit watching James Bond after the Sean Connery era.
Okay, I’m being somewhat unfair. Tom Hardy was — as he always is — fantastic, and the first half hour was superb. The next hour and a half was an endless parade of well-filmed grunts.
Roger Moore was just terrible in the role, and the stories were dumb. Dalton was OK, but the scripts were terrible. Brosnan could be good (Goldeneye) but the plots were increasingly weird.
Which is why I quit watching. I gave a couple of the Roger Moore movies a shot, lost interest in the franchise.
Still like the theme music, though.
Disney had to do a money deal with Paramount to gain full control of Indy. Paramount gets to keep the first four films and has the right of financial participation in the future. Who knows what’s really driving this.
I thought that a goodly many of the people who went to Woodstock did not member it very well.
Maybe Harrison Ford wants to put both his main characters to, uh, rest.
And Disney’s selling tickets for the event.
e.g. Bilbo passing the One Ring on to Frodo.
e.g. The passage of time, and characters, in the Narnia stories.
Disagree. Until Casino Royale came out, The Living Daylights was my all-time favourite Bond flick.
Now it’s only my second-favourite.
(Also, Tomorrow Never Dies is the best Brosnan flick, not Goldeneye.)
By “weird,” you mean “terrible,” yes?
I for one stand up and cheer EVERY TIME a movie about the sixties trots out a bunch of young things with flowers in their hair to the tune of “for what it’s worth” by Buffalo Springfield. I never tire of hearing what an unalloyed good the Kennedy’s, Free Love and the Great Society are.
We all know the Spielberg, Lucas, John Williams scored early 80’s mega pic sequels can never live up to the originals. Logically, we accept it’s impossible, but we still sniff disgust when nuclear detonations are survived by ducking into Kenmore’s.
Yet saps like us late 40 somethings keep shelling out our nostalgia bucks hoping to momentarily feel pubescent awe, that wonder and amazement one can only experience while simultaneously drumming up the courage to hold the JV cheerleaders hand.
It’s a futile cause… but my paw will likely respond to the Pavlovian bell and still see it.
I loved that show.
Indiana Jones and the Polyp of Doom.
That’s even worse!!!
Sadly, Ford has demonstrated it’s the years and the mileage.
Raiders and Star Wars were the golden movie-going era of my youth, when it was seemed reasonable to visit a theater ten or more times to see the same movie. Even if today’s movies were that fresh and exciting, the theater experience is a wreck (mostly due to cell phones), and I can’t imagine any movie compelling me to go back for repeat performances.
I suppose we should blame home entertainment systems, too. Why subject yourself to “the public”?
First world problems.
FYI: Sean Connery was 59 years old when he played Indiana Jones’ father.
That’s from “Crystal Stone”
His (alleged) fondness for “herbal recreation” surely doesn’t help.
Disagree about Brosnan (only slightly), not watched Dalton recently enough to have an opinion.
Could not stand Casino after an hour, so shut it off.
Best James Bonds ranked:
Depends . . .
Best Bonds:
I considered posting on it myself. Yes, it’s a bad idea. While I enjoyed Ford’s return as Solo in Force Awakens, that one worked because he was not the main character anymore, but was instead filling in the “Obi-wan” role. But in the Indy franchise, in which he’s supposed to be the dashing action league? He was already a little too old for the role back when he did Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (though that may have been the least of that film’s problems). The only way I can see this maybe working is if they’re going with a drastically different kind of Indy story than we’ve already seen. Completely unnecessary in any case, though.
I rather liked the Dalton era Bond. Kinda dark and gritty. Moore’s bond was a little too glib.