Edward
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I hope they make it a musical.
If the guys who wrote Evil Dead: The Musical are hired to write it, I'm in. I'll play the big, bald guy Indy fights at the plane - we'll square up to each other, then do a song and dance number along the lines of "let's call the whole thing off", then I'll accidentally be killed when the plane swoops right into the kickline...
The only reason Disney bought the Indy franchise was so that no one else could use it. They never seriously planned on making an Indy V & have just been stringing along the Indy nerds with promesses & false starts to keep them intersted enough so they continue to buy Indy merchandizing.
Besides, with this coronacircus, both Ford & many of the fans around in the 80s, will be long under ground before a new film can be made & those still standing won't even know who the hell he is anyway.
I wouldn't rule it out from going ahead at this point. For years I believed that Crystal Skull was just a way of keeping the brand selling, but no, it happened. Personally, I like it - not a much as Raiders or Crusade, maybe on a par with Temple, but there was a lot I liked in it. I very much enjoyed seeing Ford play Indy as an older man, with physical limitations - not something you see often in Hollywood, despite the aging nature of the actual performers coughtomcruisebigoffendercough.
I'd be very surprised indeed if Disney didn't intend to do something with it.
Yep, I can't imagine too many people under 50 being the slightest bit interested in 1930's style adventures, Nazi's or no Nazis. In movie form Indy has so few places to go that aren't laborious cliches. Maybe a TV series that can open up the ideas and characters somewhat, with the benefit of additional time and a more nuanced narrative.
I don't know, WW2 is still a big seller in pop culture. These things come in waves anyhow - WW2, vampires, zombies... round and round....
AS I've said many times, I don't believe Disney would buy a brand like that intended just to let it slide. I still believe that if Solo hadn't turned out to be so awful and so badly received that the two contracted sequels were cancelled, there's a fair chance we'd have seen then hawk that guy as Indy too. Ford is even harder to replace in the Jones context. That said, if they were to redo Indy for a new generation, it'll be a different audience. They don't have to work around George Lucas' idea of canon, afaik (as distinct from the widely reported clause that stops them changing anything Lucas did in the Star Wars universe). Personally, I still believe they'll compromise, and have Ford appear as Really Old Indy and tell the story in flashbacks if they can find a credible young Indy stand-in. Someone who can do as good a Ford as Karl Urban did Deforrest Kelley, or Chris Pine a Kirk. (Some folks had issues with the plot of the Star Trek redux, but it is undeniable that the cast did a very credible job of realising those characters.) I am fast leaning to the view that this will be more likely to be evolved into a TV show these days, and I agree that would be a more interesting format for Jones V2.0. Sadly, it'll probably be on Disneyflix, which I'm not prepared to sign up to, so hopefully they will also put it out on disc at some point once their streaming market peaks....