# Indiana Jones 4 - it's really going to happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081 "2006-12-30T04:35:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/1 "2006-12-30T04:35:52Z")
So Spielberg, Lucas, and Ford have finally [given the go-ahead](http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=18197), and it will be out in May 2008. “Indiana Jones and the Comfy Chair” jokes start at this line. ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/2 "2006-12-30T05:16:51Z")
I think “Rocky Balboa” made this sadly possible. Yet another reason why that movie should have been nipped in the bud. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/3 "2006-12-30T06:35:25Z")
SCENE OPENS: LIVING ROOM INTERIOR. INDY IS SITTING IN AN OVERSTUFFED CHAIR WEARING HIS LEATHER COAT THE SOUND OF CHILDREN PLAYING IS COMING FROM OFF SCREEN. INDY STRUGGLES TO GET OUT OF HIS CHAIR. INDY GRABS A WELL WORN BULL WHIP WALKS STIFFLY TO THE FRONT DOOR. PULLING IT OPEN HE RAISES HIS WHIP, SHAKES IT OVER HIS HEAD AND YELLS “Hey you kids get off my lawn!” SCENE FADES ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/4 "2006-12-30T06:35:42Z")
“Indiana Jones and the… Sorry, what was I talking about?” ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/5 "2006-12-30T06:42:49Z")
_Raiders of the Lost Keys._ ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/6 "2006-12-30T06:49:43Z")
“I have sent for you, Jones, because the world’s supply of Geritol is alarmingly low.” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/7 "2006-12-30T06:51:08Z")
I bet he wishes he had kept that Grail. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/8 "2006-12-30T08:24:44Z")
Yep - officially announced that Lucas and Spielberg have agreed on the new script, and Harrison Ford (aged 64) will star in the film. [MSNBC Link.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16397418/) I think Lucas and Spielberg are no fools, and if they think they can do it, they can. And Harrison Ford isn’t exactly ancient, but let the jokes begin. Potential titles and storyline? “Indiana Jones: I’ve Fallen But I Can Get Up!” Indian Jones is sent to an ancient archaeological dig, in Sun City, Arizona, and meets up with a Nazi on a nuclear powered scooter who has the key to the Fountain Of Youth hidden in his colostomy bag. In a legendary 45 minute, 13 MPH chase through Scottsdale, Indiana Jones flies over 3 foot drops in his scooter to capture the secret formula and discovers a 20 year old Hitler who is the lead singer in an all black hip-hop group and intending to incite terror with his new LP, not realizing nobody knows what an LP is anymore. Oh, and at one point, a garter snake crawls onto the scooter, forcing Indiana to quickly stop at an IHOP for the early bird special and starts a relationship with Thelma, the feisty waitress with a sordid past. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/9 "2006-12-30T13:30:22Z")
I wish I could laugh at any of these jokes, but the fact that they’re making yet another (and certain to be inferior even compared to _Temple of Doom_) movie makes me very, very sad. I just broke down the other day and bought the box set of the Trilogy, even though all I wanted was _Raiders_ (which is on my Top 5 Island Movies list). Money-grubbing bastiches, all of 'em. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/10 "2006-12-30T20:03:07Z")
The classic early comfy chair thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124045&page](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124045&page) I think the movie will be titled: _Indiana Jones and the wheelchair of Atlantis._ ---
**Author:** ![jacob\_wrestling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@jacob\_wrestling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacob_wrestling)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/11 "2006-12-30T23:54:55Z")
I came in to say that Sean Connery must have been at least that old when _The Last Crusade_ was filmed, but a quick IMDB search shows I’m mistaken. He was [closing in on 60](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000125/). Regardless, I think Harrison Ford has still got it. I’m stoked. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/12 "2006-12-31T00:15:07Z")
_Indiana Jones and the Temple Beth Shalom Senior Mixer_ ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/13 "2006-12-31T01:41:56Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] I think Lucas and Spielberg are no fools, and if they think they can do it, they can. [/QUOTE] Boy, I remember when I could have invested a lot more confidence in this assessment. As it stands, I am cynical enough to entertain the suspicion that this time around Indy will be accompanied by a wisecracking, **Dawson’s Creek** -looking protege, upon whom Lucas et al. will attempt to graft an extended movie franchise. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/14 "2006-12-31T13:25:56Z")
A great title with a so-so YouTube video- Indiana Jones and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/15 "2006-12-31T21:32:11Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] Potential titles and storyline? “Indiana Jones: I’ve Fallen But I Can Get Up!” Indian Jones is sent to an ancient archaeological dig, in Sun City, Arizona, and meets up with a Nazi on a nuclear powered scooter who has the key to the Fountain Of Youth hidden in his colostomy bag. In a legendary 45 minute, 13 MPH chase through Scottsdale, Indiana Jones flies over 3 foot drops in his scooter to capture the secret formula and discovers a 20 year old Hitler who is the lead singer in an all black hip-hop group and intending to incite terror with his new LP, not realizing nobody knows what an LP is anymore. Oh, and at one point, a garter snake crawls onto the scooter, forcing Indiana to quickly stop at an IHOP for the early bird special and starts a relationship with Thelma, the feisty waitress with a sordid past. [/QUOTE] This has just induced a “I can’t breathe and tears are streaming down my face” laughing fit - thank you **Dmark**. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/16 "2007-01-01T00:17:58Z")
[QUOTE=Orbifold] I think “Rocky Balboa” made this sadly possible. [/QUOTE] Important distinction that allowed me to accept Rocky at 60 but not Indiana at 65: The Rocky movies have always been, more or less, contemporary. Released in 1976, _Rocky_ took place in 1976 with a 30yr old Stallone playing a 30yr old Rocky (Rocky’s age is indicated in dialog in the film). Released in 2006, _Rocky Balboa_ takes place in 2006 with a 60yr old Stallone playing a 60yr old Rocky. I can accept that Rocky is in such good shape at the age of 60, because it is the year 2006. In 2006, 60 isn’t that old. Many 60yr olds are in really great shape, particularly those whose financial situation allows them leisure time to avoid stress and keep a regular exercise routine. 60yr old athletes who exercise and eat well can be in wonderful shape _in the year 2006_. Indiana Jones, on the other hand, was probably born about 1890. He’s in his 40s in the 1930s, so a 65yr old Indiana Jones story would take place about 1955. In 1955, 65yr olds _were not in great shape_, in 1955, 65yr olds were _old_! _Really old_!!! If the film takes place in the 40s, with a 65yr old Harrison Ford playing a 55yr old Indiana Jones, then we _might_ get a good story out of that. If they place the story any later than 1950, then nope, sorry, no. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/17 "2007-01-01T00:19:35Z")
Indiana Jones was born in 1899. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/18 "2007-01-01T00:22:40Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Indiana Jones was born in 1899. [/QUOTE] Maybe they’ll stick in a scene of him reminiscing about his earliest memory of his dad joyfully informing him about that queer Wilde finally getting what was coming to him, and how it proved those Brits weren’t a bunch of unrepentent sodomites after all. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/19 "2007-01-01T00:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Indiana Jones was born in 1899. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the info. That means Harrison Ford in his 40s was playing Indiana Jones in his 30s. Definitely think we need to get Indiana Jones at about 55. I wouldn’t buy Harrison Ford as anything less than 55yrs old, but I wouldn’t buy Indiana Jones at anything older than 55yrs old (considering the crazy antics he’s bound to get up to!). ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081/20 "2007-01-01T00:29:59Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] Maybe they’ll stick in a scene of him reminiscing about his earliest memory of his dad joyfully informing him about that queer Wilde finally getting what was coming to him, and how it proved those Brits weren’t a bunch of unrepentent sodomites after all. [/QUOTE] Bear in mind, though, Indy’s dad was a medieval scholar, so he would be well aware it proved no such thing. I think we all know what “courtly love” was a euphemism for. The English were practically French in this regard. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4-its-really-going-to-happen/386081.md?page=2)