Indiana Jones LOVE thread

I love it when Kate walks in front of the Temple of Doom logo more than any other IJ moment, though the climax of Raiders is pretty fun.

Is this a considered opinion, or are you just saying "I thought it was kind of cool"?

i mean what are you talking about re the logo thing?

oh hang on i think i understand now, its been a while since i've seen it.

Yeah, if I was at home, I'd do a screengrab, but I literally meant the thing where the logo is matted so that, from a depth perspective, it materializes between her and the Rockettes. (not a considered opinion, just a personal fave.)

Yay! Indiana Jones and the Mallwalkers of Doom! There's no way this could possibly suck, is there?

Lessee...the last movie was set in '39, I think, and came out about 15 years ago so the new one to account for Harrison Ford's leather-muppet grill will have to be early to mid fifties. So Nazis are out, unless they do a South American exile thing ala Mengele - but there's no superstitious biblical artifact to mess with there. Spear of Longinus, maybe? Been done to death a little, hasn't it. Maybe we'll sub Stalin for Hitler and throw in some russian folklore?

"Indiana Jones Meets Hellboy" would be cool.

Sorry. It's early for me.

Last Crusade is on my short list of Perfect Movies. I might be biased from loving it since I was wee, but there it is. It's one of the best scripts ever, there's hardly a line that's not quotable, and it's definitely the funniest of the Indy movies.
-- Jordan (jordancohe...), August 15th, 2003.

HARRISON FORD IS TOO FUCKING OLD

i hope they dont make him some kinda elder figurehead and bring in a hip new younger character meant for all the extreme stunts & whatnot - old indy jokes would be great!! he could break his hip

I was waiting for Ally to weigh in.

'i suddenly remembered my charlemagne!'

indiana jones & the bewilderment at rap music

Indiana Jones and the LARC of Dread.

i hope they dont make him some kinda elder figurehead and bring in a hip new younger character meant for all the extreme stunts & whatnot - old indy jokes would be great!! he could break his hip

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this is so what i think is going to happen

Great, just what we need, Hollywood Homicide II

esp with the creative control of nu-george lucas, who probably nixed the original script b/c it wasn't shitty enough

It was Frank Darabont -- probably he had Indiana Jones sitting around in a Turkish prison and he finds hope and grace thanks to Morgan Freeman.

And that would have been the title.

indiana jones & the freaky beatniks

indiana jones and the female eunuch

Indiana Jones and the Mallwalkers of Doom

Indiana Jones in "I'm getting too old for this shit!" aka Indy Vs Lethal Weapon

Indiana Jones Vs. the Japanese War Tuba

Indy 4: Is There a Consensus?
Ford and Lucas say it's ready to go.
by Paul Davidson and Stax
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March 17, 2006 - We've heard a lot of things about the Indiana Jones IV script lately. Lucas suggested that a draft by Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour, Catch Me if You Can) had been approved and was ready to shoot, while director Steven Spielberg said he was having War of the Worlds collaborator David Koepp work on it some more.

The latest from star Harrison Ford, however, is that Spielberg does have a script he is satisfied with. "Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon," the actor told German magazine Fit for Fun, according to E! Online.

Spielberg's publicist Marvin Levy also told E! Online, "[The script] certainly seems to be [in the can], but I don't think we're at that point where we have a firm start date. But this is certainly the closest where we've been in this whole development process."

Lucas spoke about Indy IV again this week, this time with Time magazine. "I've been working on Indy 4 for ten years. So I've been more involved, so no matter how you count it on this one I'll be more involved than I'll have ever been on the other three put together. It's taken forever to get a script of it. That's my part of it."

Lucas also gave a caution, apparently aimed at the same sort of fan base that had conjured up their own ideas of what the Star Wars prequels would be like and then came away disappointed. "You know the problem there, which is not a problem, is that we don't have to make that movie. All we can do is hurt ourselves, all it's going to do is get criticized. I mean it's basically Phantom Menace we're making. No matter how you do it, no matter what you do, it won't be what the other ones were in terms of the impact or the way people remember them."

Lucas also mentioned that Spielberg was planning to use his own tried-and-true film techniques while making Indy IV, instead of Lucas's cutting-edge digital technology.

"He'll win. He's the director. The great thing about working with Steven is that we don't have agendas. We want to make the best movie possible, I want him to be happy. If he wants to shoot it on film and cut it on a Movieola... Hey, he's got a great editor. Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Movieola than anybody can cut on an Avid. And I don't really care."

So where do things stand now? A high-level production source has confirmed for IGN FilmForce that, as was previously reported , Spielberg is indeed taking a year off, despite all the recent progress on the Indy IV front. Script revisions will continue, as will development on the Oscar winner's long-planned Abraham Lincoln project. Hang in there, Indy fans!

So buried a bit in this interview with Lucas a few days ago:

And now Lucas, of course, has his eye on another American classic: Indiana Jones. The fourth chapter in the film series, with Lucas producing and close pal Steven Spielberg directing, begins shooting in Los Angeles this June. Then it's on to several top-secret global destinations. Lucas teases that one will include a waterfall.

Jokes have been made about how the franchise will keep 64-year-old star Harrison Ford up and running, but Lucas doesn't see that as a problem.

"He's not running in any of the movies," Lucas says. "He's either on a horse or driving a car or a motorcycle. And he'll play his age in this movie with what's appropriate. The chases are more suspenseful than speedy. Like the rolling ball in the first film — it's not that he's running that fast, it's that there's a giant ball coming at him. And he will get beat up, which is a tradition for us."

Lucas, who also is in pre-production on a "bare-bones, action-heavy" Star Wars live-action TV series, says there'll still be plenty of action in "Indy 4," the official title of which he hopes to keep under wraps until the first trailer hits theaters around Thanksgiving.

Sean Connery has yet to sign on as Indiana's father, Dr. Henry Jones, but Lucas says, "We're still trying."

It wasn't his idea to cast Cate Blanchett as Ford's new leading lady, he says. "That's who my director wanted, and I always bow to the wishes of my director," Lucas says of Spielberg. "I approved it because she seemed like a good idea. When I met her at the Academy Awards, I told her, 'Hey, you work for me now!' "

Hm.

WAHT

Jesus christ. When will someone do us all a favour and kill George Lucas?

Anything that distracts Spielberg from his ludicrous idea of making live action Tintin films is alright by me.

"We've used CGI to change Haddock's whiskey into Evian."

See, I suspect Lucas eggs him on. If he didn't have Lucas to hang out with, Spielberg would get his advice from someone else. Scorsese maybe.

i hate him so much

Indiana Jones and That Nice Senator McCarthy

-- Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:25 (1 year ago)

haaa

i hope they dont make him some kinda elder figurehead and bring in a hip new younger character meant for all the extreme stunts & whatnot - old indy jokes would be great!! he could break his hip

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this is so what i think is going to happen

-- s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:18 (1 year ago)

I'm beginning to feel the fear a bit on this point.

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no past burning or scarring at the hands of Lucas is enough to mitigate my excitement. i feel like Homer when he climed the pylon and kept electrocuting himself.

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HI DERE INDIE I GROWED UP

Last Crusade is on my short list of Perfect Movies. I might be biased from loving it since I was wee, but there it is. It's one of the best scripts ever, there's hardly a line that's not quotable, and it's definitely the funniest of the Indy movies.

-- Jordan (Jordan), Friday, August 15, 2003 10:21 AM (3 years ago)

Yes yes yes.

WHO WILL BE ETHNIC FUNNY THIS TIME DR. JONES?

i am still excited about this

No Denholm Elliott tho. ;_;

oh man i know marcus is my favorite

at least that fat white-supremacist pavarotti lookin dude is still around

Best description of him in years.

I'm burying my career so substantially in these interviews that it's painful. But I think that there are some questions that demand honest answers. I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization…. There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about…. By 2020, fifty percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent." - US weekly magazine 'World', 20th December 2003.

'muslim descent'