# Indiana Jones 4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520 "2005-12-20T21:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/1 "2005-12-20T21:33:03Z")
The script has been approved by Lucas & Spielburg. It is a go. > **[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/)** > > Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf. In 1957, archaeologist and adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is called back into action and... Release date: 2007. Harrison Ford will be returning. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/2 "2005-12-20T21:34:57Z")
_Raiders of the Lost Ark 4: Indy Gets Old_ Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/3 "2005-12-20T21:35:48Z")
Salt-and-pepper chest hair! :eek: What were they thinking? ---
**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 20, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/4 "2005-12-20T21:39:00Z")
Time to remember the possible plots: [Indiana Jones And The Comfy Chair](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124045) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/5 "2005-12-20T21:42:59Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > [Indiana Jones And The Comfy Chair](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124045) Damn, beaten to the punch. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/6 "2005-12-20T21:52:40Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Salt-and-pepper chest hair! :eek: What were they thinking? _snort_ Ah, **Mika**. Yeah, this is a bit much. Hey, Hollywood, can we stop the sequel silliness already? I mean, first Rambo, and Rocky, and now Indiana Jones? What’s next, _The Jazz Singer 2_? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/7 "2005-12-20T21:53:49Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > Hey, Hollywood, can we stop the sequel silliness already? I mean, first Rambo, and Rocky, and now Indiana Jones? What’s next, _The Jazz Singer 2_? Oh, come on. Like you’re not going to go see it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/8 "2005-12-20T21:56:15Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > _snort_ > > Ah, **Mika**. Yeah, this is a bit much. Hey, Hollywood, can we stop the sequel silliness already? I mean, first Rambo, and Rocky, and now Indiana Jones? What’s next, _The Jazz Singer 2_? Some sequels were decent… _Star Wars_ … _George Lucas_ … You never know, hell, it might just not suck. Could be pretty cool. I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope… ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/9 "2005-12-20T22:03:16Z")
I’m not going to hold my breath. Scripts have been approved before and nothing has come of it. I want to see it, as apparently it will involve Indy as an older man, not Indy in his prime being played by an older Harrison Ford. When I see a trailer I’ll believe it’s really being made. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/10 "2005-12-20T22:06:29Z")
I don’t care if it turns out to be _Indiana Jones And The Complicated Medicare Signup Process_, I’m seeing it. It is kind of scary that Ford is older than Sean Connery was when he play Indy’s dad though. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/11 "2005-12-20T22:15:38Z")
Well, I hope they dust of Sean Connery, too. Maybe they’ll even bring back Karen Allen? I hate unfinished love stories. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/12 "2005-12-20T22:17:26Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Well, I hope they dust of Sean Connery, too. > Maybe they’ll even bring back Karen Allen? I hate unfinished love stories. I heard _years_ back that Karen Allen was involved–back when the rumors about the fourth movie first started. I’ve got nothing now, but it was once a rumor. But since there are also rumors of Natalie Portman playing Indy’s daughter, who better to be her mother than Marian? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/13 "2005-12-21T01:55:45Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > It is kind of scary that Ford is older than Sean Connery was when he play Indy’s dad though. On _Inside the Actors Studio_, Lipton brought up the fact that if you do the math in the third film, Sean Connery would have been twelve when he fathered Indy. Harrison Ford chuckled and said, “Well, but you know Sean!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/14 "2005-12-21T03:58:59Z")
They have to introduce a Henry Jones Jr. Jr. don’t they? Ford can’t carry an action movie like he could 15 or (gulp) 25 years ago. Plus, adding a young guy to carry on the Jones name would allow for even more sequals. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/15 "2005-12-21T04:14:54Z")
With Ford’s current age and the time lapsed since the last movie, the new one would need to take place in the early 1960s. I’m trying to think of what (other than JFK) would be the angle now that the Nazis are out of the picture. Of course if they set it in the late 1960s then there’s enough time for Indy to have had a young hunk son or adventuresome buxom daughter to be his sidekick and spawn another series. Since the Indy movie not to involve Nazis sucked, my money is that this one will focus on _ex_-Nazis, and since the _Da Vinci Code_ was such a huge seller and the two good Indy movies were about Biblical relics, I’m guessing the Spear of Destiny or the Cross will figure in this one, or perhaps the Ark of the Covenant will be unboxed and dusted off (very very carefully). ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/16 "2005-12-21T04:18:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > or perhaps the Ark of the Covenant will be unboxed and dusted off (very very carefully). Nail those commie Vietnamese bastards? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/17 "2005-12-21T10:03:53Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > They have to introduce a Henry Jones Jr. Jr. don’t they? Ford can’t carry an action movie like he could 15 or (gulp) 25 years ago. Plus, adding a young guy to carry on the Jones name would allow for even more sequals. Why a guy? Cast Gina Gershon! ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/18 "2005-12-21T11:58:48Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Since the Indy movie not to involve Nazis sucked, my money is that this one will focus on _ex_-Nazis, and since the _Da Vinci Code_ was such a huge seller and the two good Indy movies were about Biblical relics, I’m guessing the Spear of Destiny or the Cross will figure in this one, or perhaps the Ark of the Covenant will be unboxed and dusted off (very very carefully). This is my bet too. I’m guessing Nazi’s in hiding in 50s/60s South America, trying to locate some supernatural object to bring back the Third Reich. I’m also betting on a Nazi ‘flying saucer’ scene as well (very 50s b-movie). No Nazis=Crap Indy OB ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/19 "2005-12-21T13:14:43Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Why a guy? Cast Gina Gershon! Okay, I agree. A hot babe may be a better choice. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520/20 "2005-12-21T13:17:55Z")
> [@Oswald Bastable](#): > > This is my bet too. I’m guessing Nazi’s in hiding in 50s/60s South America, trying to locate some supernatural object to bring back the Third Reich. I’m also betting on a Nazi ‘flying saucer’ scene as well (very 50s b-movie). > > No Nazis=Crap Indy > > OB Yeah, that’s my tip. Neo-Nazi’s using the occult artifacts that Hitler had salvaged to bring Hitler bacl and bring about the fourth reich. Admit it, that could be cool. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indiana-jones-4/336520.md?page=2)