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Remember in Elementary school when they'd try to trick us into watching something blatantly educational and boring, but you were fooled because there was action sprinkled in? That's Young Indy in a nutshell... :-q
On that note, remember in Crystal Skull when WWII was only briefly talked about? Man, what a missed opportunity...
Imagine what could have been the 4th Indy movie in the mid to late 90's. It didn't even have to follow the 'Indy Formula' where he had to go out finding an artifact! It's the character we love, not just the archaeology! It could have been "Indiana Jones and the Intent of Not Getting Killed Because it's Fucking World War Two" ;) I'd love to see that movie!
My thoughts exactly.
I hope not. There needs to be totally clean break with KOTC.
No.
...until I see that they hire one of the screenwriters from 'Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.' They picked the absolute last person they should've chosen to write the script for this, and with that, all optimism is out the door.
Both were poison to KOTCS, and both would be poison to 'Indy 5.' Never again.
Set in 1969.
'Who shall we get as scriptwriter?'
'I think the guy who wrote KOTCS is available.'
'Sign him up right away.'
It's like saying 'who shall we get to write the next James Bond film?' 'Get me the guys who wrote DAD.' Oh wait.
They might as well bring George Lucas back and be done with it.
was personally holding out hope that a different Indiana Jones 4 scribe would be enlisted for this latest film: Frank Darabont. The Shawshank Redemption filmmaker famously wrote a script that Spielberg and Ford apparently sparked to, but which Lucas did not. Given that a unanimous vote of confidence has been the deciding factor in all Indy films, Darabont’s script was tossed, and he was none too pleased. His script made its way online and was much better than the final version of Crystal Skull we got, so I was hoping he might finally get to bring Indiana Jones to the screen, but alas, Spielberg has chosen Koepp for the gig
Two words... 'Part time'. This honest trailer never gets old.
Or get mileage.
Whatever.
Okay, it's funny.
:))
Koepp’s work as writer or co-writer:
1988 Apartment Zero
1990 Bad Influence
1990 Dark Angel
1990 Why Me?
1991 Toy Soldiers
1992 Death Becomes Her
1993 Carlito's Way
1993 Jurassic Park
1994 Suspicious
1994 The Shadow
1994 The Paper
1996 The Trigger Effect
1996 Mission: Impossible
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998 Snake Eyes
1999 Stir of Echoes
2002 Spider-Man
2002 Panic Room
2004 Secret Window
2005 Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005 War of the Worlds
2008 Ghost Town
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2009 Angels & Demons
2011 The Little Engine That Could
2012 Premium Rush
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
As for the film itself I'm excited. I thought the last one was fun apart from the overuse of CGI and I don't think I'll ever not be excited for an Indiana Jones film. I think the only way it can work is a dual narrative with an older and younger Indy because the action and stuntwork are such a huge part of the series that a film focusing entirely on a 70 year old Ford just wouldn't work imo.
I think a film without Ford would have probably been better actually. As much as people hate Crystal Skull it gave pretty much the best possible ending for that version of the character (well second best, he already had a great ending when he rode off into the sunset at the end of Last Crusade). And what the series needs to continue is a new take on it. That's why Bond lasted so long.
If they recast an actor and do a dual narrative, then the actor is limited in what he can do with the role. At best, he'll be doing a really good Harrison Ford impression, and he'll never be as good the series will never be able to move out of Fords shadow. What they need is a Roger Moore equivalent. Someone to make the role their own and prove that the series has life after Ford. And they can't do that if they still have Harrison playing older Indy in the future because then he has to try and play Ford's version rather than a new take.
Teaming up with a wookie.
Asked by Variety senior film and media writer Brent Lang about continuing “Indiana Jones” for even more sequels, Marshall said it could happen. “It’s all about the story. I think both in the ‘Jason Bourne’ series and on ‘Indiana Jones,’ we are not going to do the Bond thing,” Marshall said, referring to rotating different actors through the title roles in the two franchises that he oversees. “We think those characters are iconic, and those are the only actors who can play that.”
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/frank-marshall-indiana-jones-harrison-ford-cinemacon-1201750527/
Seriously?.. You would rather just have that?
I trust Koepp under Spielberg's supervision more than I trust George Lucas as the grand overseer on a project... a writer is only going to write what he is told to write - he didn't come up with all the stupid gag ideas that plagued KOTCS - it all reeked of a senile George Lucas, who was more concerned about dumbing things down so the kiddies would enjoy it - much like he did for the prequel Star Wars trilogy..
plus i thought it was common knowledge that Tamahori and his wife took a chainsaw to the script that P&W wrote for DAD, and were really the ones responsible for the mess created on that film.