Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film

Alchemist253 writes "George Lucas has announced that the script for the long-rumored fourth Indiana Jones film has been finalized and is to begin filming this year, with Harrison Ford once again in front of the camera. From the article: 'In a statement, the 64-year-old Ford said he was ready for another turn as the globe-trotting archaeologist. "I'm delighted to be back in business with my old friends," he said. "I don't know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will."' All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?

Re:Maybe something like this.

[matt4077]

Well, Ford already injured his back during the second Indy movie. He had to have surgery and the whole project was almost cancelled.

Re:Well there goes another one!

[caluml]

Hopefully 2007 ushers in a year in which remakes, sequels, and adaptations give way to original and creative stories and ways to tell them.

Uh, fraid not. [bbc.co.uk]

Re:So much for never

[Svenheim]

Indy 4 will be shot in the old-fashioned way with lots of use of stuntmen rather than CGI effects. It's one of the few things confirmed about the project. And remember, Spielberg is directing this, not Lucas.

How will this one be?

[FatRatBastard]

All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?

Depends on who has the most influence on the movie: if Spielberg then I think it'll be a fun romp, if Lucas then I'm afraid it'll turn into a moralistic pile o' crap (see "Star Wars Prequels").

Lucas has already said he's tried to reedit the earlier movies to make Indy more "heroic" (I believe that he wanted to edit or remove the "Indy pulls his guns on the sword wielding baddies and shots 'em dead on the spot" scene from the first film a'la "Greedo shoots first". Spielberg wouldn't allow him).

Nah, Panama Hat already said it best....

[Rahga]

From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [imdb.com]
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.

Re:shot in versus

[barzok]

The movies were set in the 1930s, not the forties.

Not to nitpick, but...

[greenguy]

Also, all three may have been shot in the eighties, but they took place in the forties,

The open sequence in Raiders says "Peru, 1936."

Re:How will this one be?

[YetAnotherDave]

I've heard that the scene with the crazy sword-spinning guy was another
Ford improvisation - they had planned an elaborate sword vs. whip duel
(Indy had lost his gun someplace) but Ford was too sick to film it
and suggested "can't I just shoot him?".

Re:Maybe something like this.

[jfengel]

I can't find a copy of the quote, but I recall hearing that after Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan Spielberg had sworn off using Nazis as generic semi-comic villains.

A twenty-years-aged Indy will probably be fighting cartoon Commies rather than cartoon Nazis. Perhaps Chinese ones.

Re:shot in versus

[Hatta]

What the entertainment industry lacks currently is light stuff like pulp fiction, be it books, movies, or tv shows

Are you kidding? Light stuff is all there is in the entertainment industry. It's all 100% fluff. When was the last time you saw a movie or tv show that had something important to say?

Re:No new ideas

[RexRhino]

Also, movies are a global market. An explosion translates far better into a foriegn language than subtle dialog. Special effect blockbusters do much better overseas than a witty drama (much of which can be lost in the translation).

That being said, there are more indie movies available now that there ever were... you just have to see them on cable, or on netflix, or whatever.

Re:Maybe something like this.

[hey!]

Well, if the character is to be the same age of the actor, we're talking about a film set in the 1960s.

You're probably too young too remember the "Mission Imposisble" series, which ran from around 1966. Mostly the bad guys were iron curtain dictators, but old Nazis made regular appearances too. It was only 21 years after the end of WW2, after all. That's like going back in the wayback machine from 2007 to 1986. At that time, Dick Cheney was serving in Congress, having lost his job as whitehouse Chief of Staff when President Ford failed reelection.

So not only is it plausble as fiction, it is quite historically plausible that individual Nazis could still be active over tweny years after being defeated.

Re:That's funny

[CaptainAvatar]

I always thought James Cameron should only do sequels.

You mean like Piranha II: The Spawning [imdb.com]?