Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, June 30 2023)

[bruce marshall 1,315]

Maybe Sean Connery will donate one. Did you ask him?

[Faleel 5,348]

 

[Quintus 5,399]

Oh dear. 

[Bilbo 3,709]

Ford must be like 100 by now?

[Alex 2,835]

Quick! Someone shove JW in the cryogenic fridge!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I heard this will be his final crusade.

[gkgyver 1,645]

LOL

 

 

[crumbs 14,315]

Wow, they're actually sticking with July 2022 as the release date?

 

The odds of this being released in 19 months, when Frank Marshall hasn't even read the screenplay, is ridiculously slim. Realistically they'd need to be filming within 8-10 months.

 

More likely another delay until 2023, for my money.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

I just 😛hope MM can remaster and EXPAND the OST.

[Chen G. 3,949]

Kill this movie!

[bruce marshall 1,315]

FORD VS. FERRARI was a big disappointment.

Mangold ' mangled' the real life drama and turned it into a cliched Hollywood 'us vs them' underdog melodrama.

[Thor 7,504]

1 hour ago, bruce marshall said:

FORD VS. FERRARI was a big disappointment.

 

Yes, but LOGAN was great. I have hopes for this movie, even if Spielberg will no longer direct. And I find the endless jokes surrounding Ford's age very tiresome. He's very fit for his age, and it's up to the screenwriters to write his character in a way that takes his age into consideration. 

[Smeltington 1,440]

I hope they cancel the release of this movie at the last minute, and instead they do a theatrical release of the complete footage of Williams recording the score.

[Quintus 5,399]

3 hours ago, Thor said:

 I find the endless jokes surrounding Ford's age very tiresome. He's very fit for his age

 

Some fellas in their 80s and 90s are fit for their age. Although, they don't play action heroes in movies. Because it'd be absurd. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,527]

Maybe it's me. Maybe I have "moved on", but it feels somehow right to say that I have no interest in this film, whatsoever.

I've no wish to denigrate people's efforts, but, imo, the Indiana Jones story came to a satisfactory end, in 1989, and I have no plans to revisit it, beyond that date.

[SilverTrumpet 638]

Pass. It's a high budget fan film at this point. Just like the Disney Star Wars movies.

[Thor 7,504]

16 minutes ago, Quintus said:

 

Some fellas in their 80s and 90s are fit for their age. Although, they don't play action heroes in movies. Because it'd be absurd. 

 

Again, who says anything about him having to do high wire stunts all the time? A screenwriter can tone down his physical action, perhaps let other characters do that, if necessary. Personally, I would love to see an Indy film in the style of the YOUNG INDY series - which is more about character development than action.

 

Btw, Ford had a great fight scene in BR2049 just two years ago. And there's CALL OF THE WILD last year, again a physical role. He's up for it -- and then some!

 

What is absurd, is the 'ageism' on display.

[Quintus 5,399]

Yeah, you're talking about a totally different film to the Indiana Jones adventure I wanted to see. John Wayne got away with playing an old cowboy geezer in The Shootist because it didn't come after a series of swashbuckling genre defining films in a beloved action adventure franchise. Otherwise, it'd just would have been a bit sad.

 

Space Cowboys is another one where old egos got together and tried to act like they still had it. It was a bit sad. But at least those guys were about as old as Ford was in 2008!

[Thor 7,504]

I love SPACE COWBOYS!

 

By the way, you can still have an action-oriented Indy film like you desire, but it doesn't have to be Ford who does all the stunts. He can have a more mentor role, like Connery in TLC. It all depends on how they write this.

[Quintus 5,399]

I think it's inevitable that Indy will be a mentor character in this. It makes me feel like this: 

 

So I'd rather they just left it, with him and his three companions riding off into the sunset. 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Or it will involve time travel

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

They'll travel to 2022 to retrieve Indy's corpse.

[Thor 7,504]

13 minutes ago, Quintus said:

I think it's inevitable that Indy will be a mentor character in this. It makes me feel like this: 

 

So I'd rather they just left it, with him and his three companions riding off into the sunset. 

 

Fair enough.

 

Personally, I'm open to all kinds of scenarios:

 

Harrison Ford doing all kinds of stunts through the power of movie magic.

Ford taking a backseat mentor role while a younger actor does the stunts.

An Indy film that is less about action in the first place, YOUNG INDY-style.

 

Or any other variation thereof. Anything goes! Just less interdimensional beings, please.

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

2 minutes ago, Thor said:

Harrison Ford doing all kinds of stunts through the power of movie magic.

 

With a CGI Indy for the stunts, and noobody will notice the difference.

[Thor 7,504]

You don't need CGI. All the Indy films have had perfectly capable stuntmen.

[Jay 37,363]

41 minutes ago, Thor said:

Ford had a great fight scene in BR2049 just two years ago.

 

Blade Runner 2049 came out in 2017, which was 3 years ago

 

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And there's CALL OF THE WILD last year,

 

Call of the Wild came out in 2020, only 10 months ago

[A24 4,333]

I think they should use the app on Ford.

[GerateWohl 4,368]

I mean, in those sequels it is not the situation that the producers say, we still have a great story to tell, so how can we do this?

It is more like, we have a successful prominent franchise with characters that people love having acted in scenes that people like to remember and rewatch again and again, but we don't earn money from people watching their old DVDs at home. So, how can we make more money from that? Create another movie with this character filled with variations of these beloved scenes so that people again go to cinema and pay for being reminded to the old film without us investing any new idea.

 

David Lynch once said in his master class trailer. Everything is about ideas. Of you have collected about 75 good ideas, you can create a feature film from it.  

 

I think, these sequels from the big franchises meanwhile, Star Wars included, contain probably 10 to 20 ideas at max and not all of them are good.  

[Quintus 5,399]

A fully animated (Tintin stye) mocap Indiana Jones movie would have been my preference at this stage. 

 

Convincing deepfake technology could EASILY been implemented, but they'd never do it. 

[Once 605]

Kathleen Kennedy mentioned at the investor event that this will be the "fifth and final" Indiana Jones film.

[Quintus 5,399]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

CALL OF THE WILD last year, again a physical role. He's up for it -- and then some!

 

What is absurd, is the 'ageism' on display.

 

Only just caught these edits. Call of the Wild I really enjoyed, I took my children to see it and we had a lovely time. Ford was his ever watchable self in it, I found his performance charming. 

 

But what you're calling ageism I call "keep it dignified". Call of the Wild is a fine example of this. 

 

41 minutes ago, Thor said:

Harrison Ford doing all kinds of stunts through the power of movie magic.

 

 

See I think this'd be terribly undignified, and likely quite cringy. 

 

I think you and I probably have different boundaries when it comes to the suspension of disbelief. 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

26 minutes ago, Quintus said:

Convincing deepfake technology could EASILY been implemented, but they'd never do it. 

 

Because the Hollywood SFX houses would kick up a stink that they're now obsolete,  I gather?

[Quintus 5,399]

That, plus boring ethical stuff. 

[mrbellamy 6,286]

I remember somebody saying Bridge of Spies made them think that Spielberg and Ford doing Indiana Jones as a 60s Cold War espionage thriller might have been kind of an interesting take. Departure from the rough-and-tumble serial homage, obviously, but something anyway to slow it down. Indy traipsing around a snowy SU in a trenchcoat.

[Thor 7,504]

57 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

Blade Runner 2049 came out in 2017, which was 3 years ago

 

Call of the Wild came out in 2020, only 10 months ago

 

Ha, ha. As previously noted, I've lost total control of time in recent years. But thanks for the correction that totally makes my point null and void.

[Sweeping Strings 2,358]

19 hours ago, Quintus said:

A fully animated (Tintin stye) mocap Indiana Jones movie would have been my preference at this stage. 

 

Convincing deepfake technology could EASILY been implemented, but they'd never do it. 

I've said this elsewhere in this thread ... Ford could still voice him and 'animated Indy' could be made to look whatever age they see fit, but all the running, jumping, fisticuffs and whip-work would be somebody else's department.   

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

They could teach Ford animation.

[Quintus 5,399]

Exactly. 

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

4 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

I've said this elsewhere in this thread ... Ford could still voice him and 'animated Indy' could be made to look whatever age they see fit, but all the running, jumping, fisticuffs and whip-work would be somebody else's department.   

[bruce marshall 1,315]

Set it in the Sixties and cast Danny Craig as a Bondian villain.

😁

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

Daniel Craig David.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Admiral... David is dead.

[Edmilson 7,447]

Instead of a movie, they should make a AAA videogame about Indy.

[Jay 37,363]

John Rhys-Davies Talks Indy 5

 

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“I understand the film is going to be made, allegedly in May,” Rhys-Davies told us. “I have the slightest skepticism that the world will be able to shoot a movie like that in May. I suppose it is possible that I will be asked to be in it. If nominated I will serve! (laughs) But I think we ought to wait a little bit longer and, you know, let our masters actually make announcements and then you can either share my joy or my disappointment. Is that suitably diplomatic?”

 

[Chen G. 3,949]

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I have the slightest skepticism that the world will be able to shoot a movie like that in May.

 

KILL

 

THIS

 

MOVIE.

[GerateWohl 4,368]

Or do a reboot. With Tom Hardy as Dr. Henry Jones. Could work, I think. 

[Chen G. 3,949]

Or just let it be...?

[Thor 7,504]

No, bring it on! I'm really looking forward to it.

[Chen G. 3,949]

 

[Thor 7,504]

Well, Chen, those Harrison Ford jokes are as old as the ageism they showcase!