From today’s IMDB studio news and briefing:
Yikes.
I trust Spielberg and Darabont a HELL of a lot more than I trust Lucas.
That old man is mad with power.
What a douche!
That guy is so delusional when it comes to his creativeness. He still thinks Jar-Jar Binks was a good idea.
Waiting this long for another Indy film is just stupid. It’s not like they’re going to create the Holy Grail (pardon the pun) of movies. It’s just a 2+ hour action/adventure flick. Just make one already or shelve it for good.
They’ve dragged their feet on this for so long now that it will never live up to the hype.
What is Lucas looking for? “Could you make it more Howard the Duck-esque?”
Well, since I think Indy4 is a stupid idea, I have to say “Way to go, Lucas!” (Now go get hit by a bus before you ruin something else.)
The dialogue was probably not wooden and juvenile enough.
Plus, no Jar-Jar.
I’ll bet Lucas wants to send Indy to Roswell and Area 51 only to FIND Jar Jar there.
INDY: Damn it, this warehouse is ridiculously huge… I thought that MP told me there’d be some kind of archivist to show me around…
(ARCHIVIST walks around corner carrying comically enormous pile of files and boxes which block his view. He crashes into INDY; papers go flying. ARCHIVIST flails arms in distress, eyes popping cartoonishly.)
ARCHIVIST: Aaiiee! Why you not watch where you going!? (peers at INDY, then does triple take) Holy smoke! Izzat you Docta’ Jones?
INDY: Short Round?! Jeez, it’s been decades! What are you doing here?
ARCHIVIST: It my job now! I in charge of catalog all artifacts for Uncle Sam! In here we got Ark of Covenant, Spear of Destiny, flying saucer… all kind of artifact in storage! I no go by “Short Round” no more; everyone call me “Storage Jar!” Meesa so happy to see you! You on 'nother adventure, hah? I help you! Follow you everywhere; it be just like old times! (waves arms spastically in delight, trips over crate and falls over backward)
INDY: Oh Jesus.
Funny, this was word for word my EXACT reaction the first time I heard this. I honestly think George secretly is really scared of fucking this up the way he fucked up the Star wars Ep. 1,2,3.
As a HUGE Indiana Jones fan I’m torn as to whether I want another one. I loved the first three (well two of the first three; I merely liked Temple of Doom) so much that I want to see another one but at the same time I also don’t want to turn it all into a joke. To be frank, I’d sleep a lot easier if they can manage to get George Lucas out of the project.
I’d sleep better if a 60+ Indiana Jones would just stay in retirement.
-Joe
Well, if there’s one man that knows good script-writing, it’s George Lucas.
How would you guys feel if another actor played Indiana Jones ala James Bond.
Do we need 20 Indy flicks?
The score is currently 2 great Indy flicks to 1 horrid one. I say let the series lie, while they’re still ahead.
Adam Sandler! Pauly Shore!
No, wait, Kevin Federline’s at a bit of a loose end these days.
Indiana Jones and the Inventory Project from Hell
Band name!
I’d rather not see an Indy 4 with Harrison Ford around unless it involves him “passing the torch” to someone. Maybe a nephew or the son he didn’t know he had or some such thing. I don’t need to see the “Indy tries to jump from a moving truck and breaks a hip” scene.
I say, no more movies because there wouldn’t be any suspense. We know that Indy survives all of his adventures and lives to a ripe old age because we’ve seen him as a wrinkly, ancient coot in the TV series. The series is canonical because Lucas wrote most of the episodes. If there’s a new movie in which we see Indy dodging scimitars or clinging by his fingertips to a cliff face, we’ll yawn because we already know he’s going to live to collect social security.
It would be pretty hard for Indy to get funding for any further adventures, since he’s been denied tenure.
Did we really need to see him as an old man to believe he was going to live?