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Yes.
Same, I tried to enjoy it but I just couldn't. It's got literally nothing in common with the movies (besides the characters' names, even Indy's personality looks different). I must say I had some problems with the Indiana Jones novels too, they're closer to the movies than the show but still feel too different.
It didn't even have the bloody theme tune! I felt so robbed.
What was really annoying was that episode where Harrison Ford turned up: they actually gave him a bit of fun action to do, an old artefact to protect and played the Williams music. So it's not as if they couldn't do it, they actually chose to be really boring every week instead!!
:D
Come on Disney+, make an Indy series like you made Mandalorian- do it properly!
I know what you mean about the novels. The problem is, to do that lightness of touch well you need to be really good- and the writers they got were never good enough. Indy needs to be funny as much as it's exciting, and I'd imagine that's really important in prose when you haven't got the visual wit of Spielberg. I think it could be done, but you need someone good who really loves it.
Yep, well said about the prose.
As for a show, oh my, I'd kill for an Indy series akin to The Mandalorian. Either that or an animated show à la The Clone Wars, which was amazing, with episodes set after The Last Crusade or before the Temple of Doom. I'm not gonna lie, I'd be more excited about that then I'd be for a fifth movie.
But yeah, a Mandalorian series would be a bit of a dream. 25-min episodes, different location every week, a thrilling big action scene, all piecing together into an exciting serial.
I must clarify I never watched the one-hour episodes, but the later two-hour TV movie reedits. Not too long ago I revisited Treasure of the Peacock's Eye. Good fun.
Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind when I suggested an animated Indy show :D That short is amazing!
Yep, I think it was confirmed in the Indiana Jones: The ultimate guide and it is suggested in the The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones as Short Round writes a letter to Indy and says he's been tracing the Peacock's Eye for a while.
that looks amazing!
Now i may well be in the minority here? Don't get me wrong either as I love Harrison Ford, But? If you were to recast Indy? I would have Pratt top of my list as he proven he can do humour and action!
To be honest, although obviously Ford has been incredible, there's a bit of me which would've liked to have seen the Selleck version as well, because I think he'd have been really good. Maybe not quite up to Ford, but it still would've been a massive hit with him in the lead I'm sure.
"Marcus, I found them. The adjustable dumbbells."
"Yes, the school gym will buy them as usual, no questions asked."
Tom Selleck is great. Talented, versatile and with great presence. I would've loved to have seen him as Indiana Jones. Edit: Incidentally, I can see him as a teacher.
A shame his movie career never really lifted off: he didn't get the luck with the roles.
I've been wanting to catch 'Lassiter' for ages as it sounds like good, Indy-ish fun. Selleck as a cat burglar in 1930's London who gets recruited to steal from some Nazis. But it seems to have disappeared from everywhere.
Same. I'm glad we got Ford because I like him better but Selleck would have been amazing as well.
And they even shot Raiders in Hawaii too...
LASSITER is one I've always liked. I saw it in the cinema in '84. Worth catching. Fun, if not great.
Chris Pratt isn’t much of an actor to me. As Reddit says, any actor can do what he does. If they recast Indiana Jones, it should be an unknown. That would make it more interesting.
Methinks -- new actor.
Playing Indy.
Within and just after the timeframe we've seen. If any eyes get popped, it happens during this actor's run. Not everyone saw the TV show, so there still might be some genuineness to threats to Indy's life. (Everyone expects him to survive, anyway. And the eye thing would surprise those who never saw the TV show.)
Indy served in WWI and WWII. He was born in 1899. Unless you want a significantly older Indy in post-KOTCS stories, you'll have to slip him back into stories occurring before and between the adventures we've seen. He was born in 1899, so in 1957 he was 58. H Ford was 66 in the 2008 year of release, but he's fit and handsome and, I think, was credible for playing the part of a 58 year old man at the time.
So. Everyone involved recently walked away from an Indy 5. All these years gone by -- they ought to have a SLEW of great scripts from which to choose, but it seems they do not ! The time is right for a new Indy, playing the same guy, in stories "inserted" into the existing timeline.
Just make a new Indy, in OUR timeline ? I think not...it would end quickly once he gets arrested for stealing artifacts. He said the Cross of Coronado belonged in a museum. True ! He just didn't say which one.
The studio has set an August 2021 production start for the Harrison Ford-led film. The newest Indiana Jones feature will shoot at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. The film was originally expected to start filming earlier this year until the coronavirus halted those plans, causing the studio to pump the breaks."
https://thedisinsider.com/2020/11/16/indiana-jones-5-to-start-production-august-2021/
I guess I'm more worried about Ford killing himself in another air-crash before then! :D