Harrison Ford Confirms Indiana Jones IV Production 495
phoric writes "According to TheIndyExperience.com, Harrison Ford has confirmed that his role in the much-rumored production of another Indiana Jones sequel is indeed true. However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery."
A younger actor? (Score:0, Insightful)
Jones? Is that you? (Score:5, Insightful)
With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
Who would play the role? (Score:4, Insightful)
Dear god please... (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:This Just in.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Consider this. (Score:5, Insightful)
Sylvester Stallone is 58 years old.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 57 years old.
These guys were the primary action heroes while I was growing up. Man. Now _I_ feel old.
Re:Jones? Is that you? (Score:4, Insightful)
Never say never again? (Score:3, Insightful)
Indy always was a dignified fellow, so there's no reason he can be the older professor, gray hair and all, saving the world. Heck, it worked for Connery - as Bond and as Indy's sidekick. I have no problem with at all with a 60+ Indy.
Go for it.
A younger disciple, like, maybe, his son? (Score:4, Insightful)
With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
A younger disciple, like, maybe, his son?
Sean Connery as Grandpa Jones, Harrison Ford as Daddy Jones, and, I dunno, Hugh Jackman, or Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jones Jr? Maybe Karen Allen [the original Lost Ark love interest] as Mrs Jones?
Of course, Steven Spielberg [having ditched Amy Irving for Kate Capshaw, of Temple of Doom fame], and Harrison Ford, having ditched a succession of wives for some damned whore from Ally McBeal, are probably not the kinds of guys to whom it might occur to portray fatherhood in a favorable light.
Re:Who would play the role? (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course they did. You do realize that that was a highly successful series, right?
Sorry, No Way.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:it will die... (Score:3, Insightful)
The caveat, though, is that someone or something has to be around to keep him on a leash. On the first trilogy he had small budgets and the actors were willing to talk back to him. He also didn't do all the writing and directing by himself. Nowadays he gets to control every aspect of the picture and nobody will tell him when he's wrong. It's not the best environment for his films.
Re:George Lucas happy with script (Score:4, Insightful)
Some want his sidekick to be his cute younger daughter who will bring in more young males to the box office, but the studio is afraid to get an R-rating for "showing of the belly button" or "girl wearing tight t-shirt" in today's "moral" America.
Re:Who would play the role? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Consider this. (Score:5, Insightful)
George Reeve is dead
Buster Keaton is dead
Johnny Weissmuller is dead
These guys were the primary action heroes while I was growing up. There. Now you can feel young again
Re:62-year-old man doing Indiana Jones stunts. (Score:3, Insightful)
on the fence (Score:5, Insightful)
On one hand, Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. He's also Han Solo. You simply can't replace him in those roles, because everyone - everyone - associates the roles with the face, voice, and (most importantly) personality of Harrison Ford. Replacing Ford with someone else for the role of Indy just wouldn't work unless they tried really bloody hard to find some one with the same tongue-in-cheek sassy wit and lopsided grin - all without looking either too scholarly or two action-hero like. They'd need to find the "everyman intellectual" look, I think - as, it seems to me, Indy is the intellectual Ash.
On the other hand, I'd really like to see more Indiana Jones films, as I grew up on the John Williams soundtracks for Indy, the witty quips, and such. Indiana Jones was, to a large degree, what motivated my interest in both history and archeology. I've got countless photos of both me and my brother dressed up in brown fedoras, kackis, and the closest thing we could find to a leather vest, while holding whips. It'd just make my toes tingle. Though, can they do as well a job on Indy 4 (and any further sequels) as they did on Indy 1 and 3? Indy 2 kinda stunk. Would they truly Bond-ify Indiana Jones, or would they do it in a respectable manner that made it cool?
On still another hand, Indiana Jones relies on the Nazis to make him cool. Without Nazis or some massive empire of evil to fight that can be universally seen as evil, Indy has nothing. That doesn't make it easy to bring Indy to the current day - ala Bond. Maybe if they were to have a series of Chronicles, all placed in the WW2 era, it might work. But then there'd be a stronger need for Ford to play Dr. Jones.
On still another hand, if you look at the Bond films, none of the James Bonds were as good as Connery except for maybe Brosnan. I'd argue that Connery is simply too cool for Bond, and that Brosnan does, in my mind, fit the Bond prototype image better - at least for modern day. I imagine the case may have been different in the 1950's.
Now, Harrison Ford's Indy was a "man's man". He drinks. He likes women. He doesn't like mindless women, and he likes them to remain quiet. He can take a beating while dishing one out. He's as sharp as a whip and can think inventively in times of need. He is, in a sense, an "idol", someone that almost every male can relate to on most levels, and still someone that can be looked up to. What I wonder is, in today's "progressive" society, would they bastardize the Indiana Jones character and take out all those character traits to make Indy more PC? They did so with Bond, to a large degree, and I do say the franchise suffered for it.
Anyway, I could go on all day like this... I think I'll watch some Indiana Jones tonight.
Re:62-year-old man doing Indiana Jones stunts. (Score:3, Insightful)
Just because Connery is eligible for Social Security, dosen't mean he's not a good actor.
I just hope he keeps away from the sequel market in the future. It makes him look like he's selling out.
I'd like to see Connery starring in new Branaugh 'Shakespeare' productions, tho. He's one of the best classically trained actors out there. Him AND Patrick Stewart.
I thought there was already old jokes in it... (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure it is an action movie, but Indiana Jones is one of those characters that can be funny...
I personally won't want to see an Indiana Jones movie with Ford in it unless it does make fun in some way his inability to get around anymore. If it doesn't, it will be a joke, and no one will believe it. It is part of where Harrison Ford is now. Better to surf the staples of adventure and humor in this one than do the opposite and try to make a stab at seriousness.
Re:This Just in.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Indiana Jones And The Hunt For WMD's
Re:This Just in.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:A younger disciple, like, maybe, his son? (Score:3, Insightful)
So Ellen Ripley in Aliens is what, some kind of an anomaly? In my opinion, the problem is not that women are in strong roles, it's tht often women are still used as sex-objects in those strong roles. it's kinda ridiculous when someone fighting nazis/aliens/zombies/whatever has to worry about her boobs popping out of an improbably small outfit. That is the problem with Xena and Tomb Raider and any number of other films, certainly. However there are examples of films featuring women in strong roles that doesn't seem oriented at the adolescent male masturbatory fantasy set.
I should say that as a guy, I'm not totally opposed to the boob-pooping scenarios however.
Re:Yeah, okay. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:This Just in.... (Score:2, Insightful)
And holiday specials never count.
Re:In the words of Indy & Panama Hat... (Score:3, Insightful)
You gotta admit, for 62, the man looks pretty fucking good.
Remember also that he was in his late 30s/early 40s when he was not just Indiana Jones, but also Han Solo, and Rick Deckard. The man is a badass.