After many delays and switch-ups in the writing room, the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones series is a go and will begin filming next week in the UK, according to Deadline. With no title and no premise released yet, we cannot tell you much, but we can tell you that Mads Mikkelsen likes it.
Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones, joined by cast members Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round), Phoebe Waller Bridge (Fleabag), Boyd Holbrook (The Sandman), Shaunette Renée Wilson (The Resident), and Thomas Kretschmann (Avengers: Age Of Ultron). However, their characters remain a mystery.
Creator and franchise director Steven Spielberg stepped back from directing the upcoming film, with James Mangold (Walk The Line, Ford V. Ferrari, Logan) taking his place. No worries, unlike George Lucas, Spielberg will serve as a producer and is still involved in various elements of the film. Frank Marshall is holding the reigns as the film’s producer, and what’s next for our Nazi-punching hero is truly anyone’s guess (but some have guessed a ‘60s space race theme). Composer John Williams, who wrote the iconic theme song at the series’ inception, is back for the fifth film.
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull hit theaters way back in 2008, and with Harrison Ford about to turn 79 this years, who knows what geriatric adventures lie ahead. Spielberg has been adamant that Ford will be the only person to ever play the role of Indy Jones, because come on, he’s irreplaceable. However, Indiana Joan is not out of the realm of possibility. Ford first picked up his whip and threw on his fedora 40 years ago, so if they won’t let him die, maybe his next swashbuckling escapade will be retirement.
The current release date for Untitled Indiana Jones 5 is July 29, 2022.
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Yay, no Shia LeBeouf!Boo, no Karen Allen!
But what is the Rhys-Davies quotient?
The “Rhys-Davies Quotient” sounds like it should definitely be a thing!
Or at least an obscure acting college band name!
Maybe a Welsh band, an offshoot of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci or the Super Furry Animals.
70s political conspiracy thriller.
4
Barely adequate. Time to watch In The Shadow of Kilimanjaro once again.
I’d love to see more of Captain Katanga, maybe facilitating some love connections on the Bantu Wind just like in Love Boat.
And Chocolat Mousse as your ship’s bartender!
Shia LeBeouf was not the problem with Indiana Jones 4; he and Karen Allen were the only two people who seemed like they wanted to be there.The problems with Crystal Skull were:1. George Lucas is a hack who hasn’t written a decent script since the 80’s. All of his story ideas for Crystal Skull were *terrible* and they all made it into the movie.2. Stephen Spielberg phoned it in and relied way too heavily on terrible looking CGI for the action set-pieces. People will say it aged badly but Shia swinging with the cartoon monkeys didn’t look good to begin with.3. Harrison Ford and Karen Allen are too damm old. If you’re going to cast literal grandparents as action heroes you need to work that into the script somehow.Anyway I have no idea why this movie is being made – it’s kind of shocking that an Indiana Jones movie is being directed by someone other than Spielberg – but at least George Lucas isn’t involved so that’s something.
No negative comments about Karen Allen will ever be accepted. She is immortal, a goddess that gracefully accepts the appearance of aging in order to allay the fears of us mortal fanboys.
However, making her run at this point is a poor idea. Script something else, please.And yea, someone else doing Indy may be a sign that something good, instead of something cash-grabbingly bad, is coming.
Agreed. I liked many of LeBeouf’s scenes and his character generally. There was a general lack of thrill in the whole thing. The CGIed Amazon chase scene was underwhelming (the bar’s pretty freaking high), I hated the skull, I hated those wall-crawling, dart-shooting cemetery boys, and I found John Hurt and Ray Winstone/Mac to be more boring than all the rest. LeBeouf did a good job.
Leading up to it, I was convinced that John Hurt was playing Marion’s long-presumed-dead father Abner Ravenwood. That wouldn’t have fixed the movie completely, but it would have improved it a lot.
“Let’s cast Sir John Hurt, recognized as one of the greatest living actors, in what will surely be one of his last performances, but let’s have him be a senile mute with zero lines” – Skeleton Key, 2005Indiana Jones 4, 2008
the only good scene in the movie is the shia-instigated motorcycle chase
Yeah I was just thinking about that; the whole sequence with the motorcycle and the greasers vs. the jocks in the diner is really well done. You can argue about whether that scene makes sense from a script standpoint but in terms of filmmaking Spielberg really does a great job with it. It’s hard to believe that’s in the same movie as the awful looking jungle chase sequence that happens an hour later.
it fooled me into being excited for the rest of the movie.
I agree, it’s really the only part of the movie that actually feels like it’s an Indy movie. It’s also the only part of the movie that looks like it was not filmed on a soundstage. The movie does such a poor job of making the sets look like real locations.
I thought Mr. Shawshank wrote a good portion of Crystal Skull, not Lucas?#2 and #3 are spot on.
Do you mean Darabont? He wrote the script for a potential Indiana Jones movie that wasn’t made. I don’t know if any of his ideas made it into Crystal Skull but he’s not credited as a writer.
Weird. I could’ve swore he was involved. Welp, I guess I insulted Frank Darabont!
He wrote an earlier draft that Spielberg and Ford loved and that Lucas decided to junk. It does, however, follow the final movies very broadest strokes: A quest to return a crystal skull to a lost city in Peru and a reunion between Marion and Indy.Apparently all those basic ideas were thought of by Lucas, otherwise Darabont certainly would have had at least a token shared story credit on the final film.
LeBeouf may or may not have been a problem with the movie, but he’s still a giant douche.
“If you’re going to cast literal grandparents as action heroes you need to work that into the script somehow.”
Did I miss the part in the last movie where they pretended Ford and Allen were young?
I would really have loved to have seen what the Frank Darabont script would have done with the film.
The Frank Darabont script is great! Would have made a very solid Indy movie. Maybe not the best ever, but certainly not the horrible embarrassment that we got.
I thought I read that Karen Allen will make an appearance.
I haven’t heard anything about Karen Allen being in it. Though I hope she is.
I hope so!
It’s entirely possible Karen Allen will be in the movie, even if in a limited/cameo capacity.
Boo to that as well! If 80 year-old Indy can punch Nazis in the 1970s for some reason, so can 65 year-old Marion!
Why though?!Like, we have a (damn near) perfect original trilogy. Why would anyone want to tempt the Gods with more than that, a gazillion years later, no less?And also: Why would you follow 3 with 5? Doesn’t make sense.
Mr. Krabs “Money!” dot gif.
What’s all this talk of three. I’m only aware of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was so perfect that it could have only been conceived as a one-off standalone film.
I will not stand for this Last Crusade denialism!
Amen, Drag, Old Son.
Please, we only have one perfect film and that’s Raiders. I’ve never understood the love for films 2 and 3 in any way.
Yeah, Raiders is the best one, but Doom and Crusade, while not quite on the same level, have a lot going for them in terms of sheer spectacle and excitement.Doom brought a creepy mood, Crusade had the epic mysticism (and a father-son dynamic that I found genuinely moving).Only Raiders had it all, of course. But the other two had some of the same shine going for them.
The existence of “Doom” and “Crusade” do nothing to diminish “Raiders.”They’re both good in their own ways, just not stone cold perfection like “raiders.”The existence of KOTCS definitely diminishes the entire franchise, however.
I have less love for Doom (if we could tone down the shrieking Willie by about 40%, I’d be fully on board), but Last Crusade is great. I do think Raiders is objectively a better movie, but I almost like Crusade more.
Sort of like James Bond movies…I know Goldfinger is the better movie, but I like You Only Live Twice more. [the Sean Connery connection here is not at all lost on me :)]
I said this once a long time ago on Reddit, but if you look at the original three films, and the essence of what Spielberg and Lucas were trying to get – which is the idea of the action “serial” that continually puts the intrepid adventurer in peril’s clutches in between romantic interludes – TOD is the closest to the original formula they were attempting to ape.Sure, I’ll give you that TOD is an inferior film to Raiders, but since Raiders is my favorite film of all time… ALL films are inferior to Raiders. Held on its own merits, TOD is a decent enough popcorn flick, and probably better constructed than any ten of the last summer blockbuster-types. But it’s always going to look worse than its predecessor. The reason we even HAVE summer blockbuster movies is probably because of some combination of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and JAWS.
If we didn’t have Temple of Doom, we wouldn’t have gotten the two greatest scenes in Indy history.
Fuck! and Yeah! The “We are going to die!” face is the greatest face that Harrison Ford has ever made.And I will go to bat for the opening Club Obi Wan sequence as one of the greatest opening sequences ever. The anything goes music video (basically what it is), the Nurhachi, antidote table tensions, the fights, it’s just spectacular. The bridge sequence at the end is great too.I do have a soft spot for Temple of Doom, but now in the 21st century I can definitely see the racism and problematic elements of it. But I still love it.
Last crusade is great too, but the opening sequence of Young Indy is just too much “Origin of Indy” all in one day silliness that doesn’t hold up for me now.
“Last crusade is great too, but the opening sequence of Young Indy is just too much “Origin of Indy” all in one day silliness that doesn’t hold up for me now”They were obviously trying to set up River for Indy prequels, but he went off and tragically died, so that didn’t happen. If you look at it from that perspective, it makes sense.“Fuck! and Yeah! The “We are going to die!” face is the greatest face that Harrison Ford has ever made.”Rumor has it the sad face emoji is based on Indiana Jones.“And I will go to bat for the opening Club Obi Wan sequence as one of the greatest opening sequences ever. The anything goes music video (basically what it is), the Nurhachi, antidote table tensions, the fights, it’s just spectacular.”There’s one thing that bothers me every time I rewatch it—-when they go into the dragon head for the interlude with all those dancers, where exactly are those dancers at?
I get it, they made the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles after all. And River Phoenix was fine as a young Indy, even with the seriously anachronistic skater haircut. The problem was, we got every Indiana Jones signifier (hat, whip, scar, snake fear, etc.) in one afternoon’s adventure. Basically it was just like Solo: A Star Wars Story but 30 years earlier. But i was made by Spielberg in his prime so we allow it.Haha on the emoji! That face… so good.
It is funny that all those dancers seem to be giving a performance backstage of the club, and that backstage is a giant soundstage. Like does anyone even see it? Is there an audience?
Yeah, the geography of the “Temple of Doom” musical number makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Clearly, the chorus line is in a completely different room cut off from the rest of the club.
Basically it was just like Solo: A Star Wars Story but 30 years earlier.
But i was made by Spielberg in his prime so we allow it. And let us all take a moment to remember – Solo was a Kasdan script, so even if Disney wasn’t on the scene, we’d still likely have that ‘let’s dump all of this in to one backstory’ going on in it, people would just blame the old staff instead of the new ones.
Nah. Though Phoenix only lived four years after LC, at no point was him playing the character in a solo outing ever legitimately discussed by Lucas/Spielberg.
I think of the club Obi-Wan sequence as Spielberg indulging two of his big desires at the time. The big opening number and Ford charming the pants off the audience in that white tuxedo let him do a musical and a Bond movie at the same time.
Agree 100% on the Club Obi Wan opening, but it doesn’t let up from there, with the plane ride and escape in the raft. It’s a great film, with an opening act touching on perfect.
Preaching to the choir here. Temple of Doom was my favorite movie growing up. I know Raiders is a perfect film and is better, but Temple holds a special place in my heart. It never dawned on me that people could like it significantly less than the others, or that there are those who outright hate it. But the internet makes all opinions known. And I get it, White Savior tropes, Indian stereotypes, “shrill” Willie Scott (I like the character)
Oh yeah, it’s “white saviour” AF, but 15 year old me didn’t notice such things.
Agreed on all fronts. The opening of Crusade, though, while exemplifying everything that’s wrong with the “let’s explain everything!” tendency of many prequels, still works for me on the sheer strength of River Phoenix’s fantastic performance.
That second clip especially, Spielberg got to make his James Bond movie. It’s not really Indiana Jones-ish, but it’s fun.
This. The third film is plenty fun, but the way Raiders fits together and carries you along — I rewatched it recently. It’s a film made like the finest Swiss watch.
Please, we only have one perfect film and that’s Raiders. I’ve never understood the love for films 2 and 3 in any way. 3 is extremely fun, albeit safe, blockbuster filmmaking. In many ways it’s a retread of Raiders, and in a lot of the ways it’s different, it’s a little too broad, a little too defanged. But the set pieces are terrific, Ford was still killing it, Connery’s great, and it’s just terrific second-tier Spielberg (which puts it on the same level as Jurassic Park IMO).2 is harder to explain. It is a deeply flawed movie; it was flawed in its day (really, a cute kid and a shrieking lady?) and it’s more flawed viewed from the perspective of 2021 (don’t think I have to explain). And yet—it has an absolutely fun and phenomenal opening that feels more old-Hollywood than anything else in the series; it has absolute apex Harrison Ford; and, to me, it showed an alternative version of what the series could have (and should have) been. After Temple was lit into by various critics for various reasons, they retreated and never took such a big swing again. But it’s this weird, dark, very different movie that still feels of a piece with its predecessor. If it had been better-received (and just plain better), imagine the subsequent Indiana Jones movies that would have sprung from it. A true serial with standalone adventures that would have all have their own tone and influences. Instead, Last Crusade ended up being Raiders + Indy’s Dad and Crystal Skull was Raiders + time – coherence.Still to this day, Temple of Doom is my second-favorite Indiana Jones movie. It’s not the second-best one, but I have a lot of affection for it and what it was trying to do.
Upvoted because I agree with most your sentiment, including preferring the second film to the third.
Great points, but, no, “Temple” most certainly is the second best Indy movie.
Still scarred by Kate Capshaw screaming.On the other hand, we had the Temple of Doom video game at my high school job and figured out how to get free plays.
I’ll very strongly agree with that.
Sorry, HDL, I gotta go with “Last Crusade.” I mean, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, for cryin’ out loud! How do you beat that? But I would definitely put “Raiders” in a close second.
I’m not saying it’s a bad movie (although lord knows I love those as my obsession with Al Adamson and Andy Milligan show) but I honestly don’t like it even as much as Temple of Doom. I love the casting and acting, and there’s some great set pieces, but Temple of Doom (as someone noted above) feels a lot more like a serial.
Eh, to each their own, of course, but while Raiders is an undeniable classic, Temple and Last Crusade are perfectly enjoyable and entertaining adventure films.
Absolutely. I was gonna “hot take” it and say there was only one movie, but you beat me to it. Temple of Doom wasn’t great, and I still don’t get the love for Last Crusade. Raiders was an action movie with humor; the others are humorous movies with action. There’s the difference, in my opinion.
I’ll argue Temple and Crusade are watchable, but yeah. It’s a diminishing returns ride for me.
That said, here’s a hot take – Ilsa Schneider is the worst main woman out of all the Indy movies. Yes, even worse than Willie. Willie’s annoying, but
1) that’s understandable – she’s a club singer who was basically dragged kicking and screaming into an Indy adventure and had no opportunity to opt out
2) as annoying as she can be, there’s at least a character there. By comparison, Ilsa’s character, when not being rendered redundant by Donovan, is just “She fucked Indy, AND his dad!”
Which…yeah, that’s kind of gross now. It’s nothing against Allison Doody, who is trying in the part, but man, that script really did not give her much to work with.
I completely agree. 2 is not super well regarded, but the general consensus is that 3 is great. I have to disagree with that, personally. The character arcs are alright, but the jokes are corny and the action scenes are mostly farcical. Never understood the love it receives.
Temple of Doom is my favorite.
Um the 20 minute tank-horse-canyon chase scene in Last Crusade is worth double the price of admission. Ranks up with French Connection as one of the best chase scenes in movie history, IMO.Also the fun genius of taking a hot James Bond action star and casting him as a fussy goofball professor.
Eh, the tank chase is fun, but the pacing is really slack. Should have cut at least 3 minutes out of it and tightened it up. I was shifting in my seat a bit during my very first viewing. The mine cart chase, by contrast, never lets up for a second.
YOUR pacing is really slack! This whole COURTROOM’S pacing is really slack!
(Old Man Schultz sees beat up Crystal Skull Blu-Ray)“You finally really did it! You maniacs! You made a fourth one! Ahh, damn you! Damn you all to hell!”
That scenario is pretty much accurate, yeah!
Of course, instead of the Statue of Liberty casting a shadow on kirivinokurjr’s tear-stained, yet enraged, face, we see an over-inflated photo of Steven Speilberg giving all of Hollyweird the finger whilst perched atop an ever-growing mountain of cash. Our cash. Damn us all to hell, indeed.
I used to think “money” because the last one did make $700+ million, and how many action movies with 60+ year old stars can you say that about? But I really think Ford only agreed to be Han Solo in the last 2 Star Wars movies (a role he openly hates) for a guarantee of making this. He really seems to love doing it (despite being the grumpiest bastard of all time) and he also seems to have…contempt for his own mortality. I’d be a little surprised if after this movie people don’t say “wow, he got the absolute shit beat out of him in this movie,” at his request, because he doesn’t seem to give two fucks about death or injury, and I kinda respect that in a 78 year old man.
Yeah, to be fair, he was easily the best thing about those new “Star Wars” movies (a low bar to clear, but still). And he’d most likely be the best thing about this new Indy.I just have my doubts about there still being a good screenplay left you can write for that character that isn’t just basically a reboot.
would it be the worst thing if they pulled a “Mad Max” and he was more of a background character relative to Phoebe Waller Bridge and/or Mads Mikkelsen? Because those are 2 pretty good actors right there. I just (possibly naively) hope this franchise can go out on a high note instead of following the apparent trend line from the last movie, which I felt was pretty good until Shia Laboof showed up.
Well, they’re definitely not doing a reboot!
I had the same theory about an Indy movie being a stipulation for Ford. It does have a logic to it.
I remember watching him being interviewed during the Force Awakens tour and someone asked him why he came back despite obviously hating Han Solo and he said “a huge pile of cash” or something to that effect, and I remember thinking how cynical and depressing that was for someone with a LOT of cash already, and his legacy completely sewn up, deciding on a cynical cash grab in his 70’s, and hoping it was something more than that, and then maybe a few months later the rumors starting popping up about people working on a script for Indy 5, and despite the anxiety about a 78 year old man being able to pull off the action scenes for that type of movie, it was kinda hopeful to see maybe he’s doing it for the love (AND huge piles of cash).
I’m assuming that comment was a joke (in which case it’s only 85% true.)The interviews I saw with Ford had him give the same coldly professional response every time. Basically: “I saw the narrative utility in the character so I said yes.”Not that Ford has any reason to give a shit about the narrative integrity of a new SW movie, of course. The big pile of cash certainly didn’t hurt!
Last Crusade is a little too comedic for me, but I still love it. And choosing Connery to play Indy’s dad was one of the best casting decisions in the history of Hollywood.
I mean, at least they were smart enough to stop making Star Wars movies in 1983.
Well, not to get into a whole other thing here, but I lowkey enjoy the SW prequels, in spite of all their flaws.
Unlike the sequels, they have real heart and a real story. They had me invested in their emotional stakes. And even though not all the ideas work, they’re undeniably creative in their approach.
Plus, I’ve come to like Hayden Christensen’s performance quite a bit as a character who is traumatized, struggling and not too likeable.
I’m with you. Plus they become infinitely more enjoyable if you allow for the possibility that Yoda really doesn’t like the Jedi (the organization at least) all that much.
Yoda is the biggest little Jedi apologist on Coruscant. For Yoda, “Jedi” means “the empowered good guys”. He wasn’t training Luke to defeat Vader, he was training Luke to become a Jedi. It’s all he talked about. Luke even stopped battering Vader into the floor when he realised he graduated.
So, uh, why did he train Luke to do the force choke thing? That’s definitely not a Jedi move, that’s a Sith move.Plus, he pretty much presides over the dismantling/slaughter of the Jedi while hiding the full extent of his powers the entire time.
I also think it’s important to remember that Luke only beat Vader by succumbing to the dark side…he had no chance until Vader brought up his sister and he got all butthurt and ragey.
Pshaw! You probably like sand too!Seriously, you do you. The presence of an actual narrative plan is a strength.
I totally dig sand! It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. What’s not to love?
To this day, I remain skeptical how much of an actual narrative plan there was vs how much was Lucas knowing where he had to park the car after the ride was over leading us to believe he had this all mapped out the whole time.
Cause from a narrative standpoint, TPM is prettymuch the story equivalent of Lucas doing donuts in a parking lot for a third of the trip before remembering he has some place to be and should probably quit fucking around.
Thanks to all the recapping in AotC, the only real contribution TPM has to its own name is why Nute Gunray wants Padme dead so badly.
And even that’s only really good for a handful of lines tops.
I thought The Force Awakens taught us that no amount of money can be paid to Harrison Ford for him to give a shit about acting any more.
my thoughts exactly. The trilogy is perfection and nothing else needs to be done.
The cicadas are posting on Kinja now! It’s the End Times!
Maybe they’ll cast Oscar Isaac to say “Somehow…Rene Belloq has returned”
Genuinely hope this becomes some kind of passing of the whip to Phoebe Waller Bridge, though it’s an interesting question if an Allan Quatermain style serial hero (even a female one) has a place in the 60s and 70s. I suppose Johnny Quest made it work, though some aspects of that series have not aged gracefully (then again, earlier aspects of the Indy series haven’t either – and they will remain some of my favorite films to my dying day). Whatever they do, just stick the landing, and we’ll forget all about that mess with the fridge and the nuke and the aliens.
Wasn’t the last movie suppose to be passing the whip to the Transformers kid?
Yes, but in a tragic twist, that kid grew up to be Shia LaBeouf
Just recast him. Absolutely nobody will care if LaBeouf is replaced.
With, you guessed it, Frank Stallone
There is rampant speculation that that is what’s happening.Personally, I’d just prefer the most brief, fleeting reference to “his son” and that’s it.
If only he had grown up to be…you guessed it, Frank Stallone.
That’s what every news story about Indy 4 wrote, and then they specifically made fun of the idea at the end of the movie. And then every entertainment news site continued to claim Indy 4 tried to pass on the fedora and the whip to the Transformers kid because who cares about accuracy or facts. It’s just entertainment “journalism.”
This is Even Stevens erasure and I won’t stand for it
Pictured: Harrison Ford significantly younger than he is now.
I didn’t want to see a 66 year old swinging around on a whip, I definitely don’t want to see a 79 year old doing it
Well, for at least parts of the movie he will only be 78…
Agreed. They should wait until he’s at least 90.
Let Lou Reed rest in peace!
What about a 90 year old flying around in space?
Every year there is a shitty singer who can’t dance on Masked Singer and I am like “ITs SHATNER!!!” but it never is. Maybe next year
I thought the usual response was “That’s Wayne Brady”
Oh, I want that.
What about a 90 year old flying around in space?
When did that happen?
It still could. Shatner said he was open to revisiting the role at some point.
It still could.
It won’t.1) Shatner’s 90.
2) Shatner’s well-known as an asshole.
Well, he’s not actually doing that anymore, is he?
*yet
Dude’s 90. Kirk canonically died almost 30 years ago.
Perhaps so, but if JJTrek was useful to Star Trek at all, it proved anything is possible if the money is there, which makes showrunners/directors willing to stomp all over canon.
So let’s bend overbackwards to put a 90-something in Star Trek?Yeah, I don’t see that happening.
I’m not saying it would be a *good* idea, just that it could happen.
I feel like I could walk up to him with a safety pin and poke a hole in his face, whereupon it would deflate and he would look 90.
I don’t understand why he didn’t want to play Han Solo anymore but still wants to play Indiana Jones.
Because he’s said many times he thinks Han is a very thin character, but Indy is not.
That’s not what your mom said.
That’s not your mom said.
I gotta say, I know it’s a double standard that works in men’s favor, but these action vehicles for guys that are (way) older than me is completely out of hand. I guess Dwayne Johnson can’t do every role but where are the new action stars? I don’t think I can watch another fighting sequence with a geriatric Laim Neeson.
I’ve seen the Rifftrax version of Dark Power starring the old dude who actually trained Ford in using the whip Lash Laru and it’s not a pretty sight.
Ok. I do though, and so does everyone who will buy a ticket, so I’m glad your will doesn’t dictate the Universe.
Do you really!? Like did you see Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? It was bad. Like worse then any of the Star Wars prequels or Disney sequels bad. There are three awesome pretty much perfect Indiana Jones movies. Does the world really need an inferior 4th and 5th entry with an old man?
“Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?”[Phoebe Waller-Bridge looks at camera]
[Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are bound by ropes as the death cult surrounds them. The head priest of the cult emerges from a cave in a long ornate gown.]Phoebe Waller-Bridge: “Oh God, he’s fucking hot!”
Sian Clifford: “Oh my god can you not for just five minutes?”
Head Priest of Cult: “Who are you talking to?”
G-ddammmitttt, take my star..and me!!
just please no asides like “oh, sexy grandpa”
“After many delays and switch-ups in the writing room, the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones series is a go and will begin filming next week in the UK,”
So, it’s NOT in production.
“Creator and franchise director Steven Spielberg”
George Lucas created Indiana Jones.
21 comments in and nobody has made the obligatory “It belongs in a museum!” quote?For shame, AV Club posters. For shame.
The hilarious thing is that joke and its equally hilarious reply were made in 1989, when Harrison Ford was 47.
THIS FRANCHISE BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!
Too busy trying to tenuously link Harrison Ford to something vaguely racist from two decades ago. I don’t have time for snark!
Get back to work, Barsanti!
I bet Harrison Ford kissed or hugged a colleague at some point in his life. FIND OUT when and who dammit.
fortunately, some Really Funny Champs have made the “whaddaya mean a fourth indiana jones movie they only made three of them hhahahahahahahaha” joke
It belongs in an exhibition!
I didn’t hate the fourth film, unlike most people commenting here. Yet I still have no idea why, when the star of the franchise is pushing 80, they are making another one. Even ten years ago this might have made sense, at least as some sort of passing the torch kind of venture, but now it just feels sad.
‘No worries, unlike George Lucas, Spielberg will serve as a producer and is still involved in various elements of the film’
and this is supposed to be a good thing after 4? spielburg had way, way more to do with the overall ‘meh’ of that film than lucas did. within the limitations of keeping harrison ford and not trying to awkwardly de-age him, the script wasn’t the problem.
No, Lucas personally chucked the vastly superior Frank Darabont Indy IV script which Ford and Spielberg both loved and were eager to do. Lucas shaped it into the crap that we got. At that point, it wasn’t surprising that Spielberg wound up phoning it in.
“Fly? Yes! Land? No!”
Anybody think there will be some sort of acknowledgement for Raiders’ 40th anniversary next Saturday? I haven’t seen much about it, at least nowhere near the limited fuss they made for Empire last year.
Yeah, I’m pissed there are screenings all over the country. Or at least in my city!
Whoops. I’m pissed there are NOT screenings all over the country.
I really and truly do not understand what is so fucking difficult about putting together an Indiana Jones animated series for a few years on Disney+ to keep the franchise alive until after Ford is retired. Hell… HAVE FORD VOICE INDY if you think you need to put some respect on his name. But keep this shit on ice for 6-8 years, and then recast the role for a live-action return. Disney didn’t include Indiana Jones in the Star Wars / Lucas acquisition just because they were tired of licensing the property for their theme parks. They plan to do something with it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there’s more good stuff than bad stuff in Crystal Skull.
If you still watch Indiana Jones and you are over 30, you are a fool. Ever heard of Ingmark Bergman?
I have never heard of Ingmark Bergman.
I have heard of Engleberg Humperdick, does that count?
I have never heard of Engleberg Humperdick.This is fun.
I’ve never heard of John Heard.
It counts for something
Wasn’t he Crown Prince of Florin?
I love this so much…
Ah, I love it when people are done in by their own typos/hubris.
[B]ut some have guessed a ‘60s space race theme
NO NO NO NO NO NO!Look, despite learning that (apparently) Shia Labeouf is not connected with this in some way, my expectations of this project are not exactly sky high to begin with. I’ve more or less made my peace with the integrity of the original trilogy being permanently compromised by Crystal Skull. But do they not understand that a big part of why that last film is so loathed is all the alien/ufo b.s.? What’s next, “Team behind next Indy Jones pic pledge more CGI than ever?”Indiana Jones is like James Bond – his exploits need to remain firmly planted on Earth.
But if he stays firmly planted on Earth, how can he attempt re-entry?
A) Having just rewatched the orig Poltergeist I am on board with the overall concept of someone good directing and Spielberg contributing in the Spielberg way. B) It doesn’t goddamn matter because this is an intrinsically terrible idea.
Whatever happened to Mutt? Everyone loved Mutt.
He broke up with Shania Twain and has not given a interview in decades.
Indiana Jones and the Magical Adult Diaper? You can pee constantly and it never gets wet.
Indiana Jones and the Hemorrhoid of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Aching Back
Catheters. Why did it have to be catheters?
Indiana Jones and the Last Suppository.
“Spielberg has been adamant that Ford will be the only person to ever play the role of Indy Jones”
…ahem.
Leonardo di Caprio played Indian Jones?
Harrison Ford was going to play a teenager?
“Arthritis! Why did it have to be arthritis!”
only person to ever play the role of Indy Jones,
“It belongs in a heroin . . . I mean museum!”
In case you’re wondering, it looks like the screenplay was cowritten by Jonathan Kasdan, whose screenplay credits include Solo: A Star Wars Story (which was not great and very forgettable), and David Koepp, whose credits include Jurassic Park and nothing much good since. So….don’t get high expectations.
And I submit that even the script for Jurassic Park isn’t all that shit hot. Most of the characters and best ideas are from the Crichton novel, and it has no real climax. There are some good lines, mostly from Dr. Malcolm, but for every one of those there is the ice cream eating scene. I’m not sure though that the script for Solo is really to blame there, it just had overwhelming production problems and some bad casting decisions.
Those two folks were fired when Mangold came on board. Koepp even said as much in an interview. Mangold has enlisted the services of “Ford V. Ferrari” writers the Butterworth Bros.
If Disney screw the pooch in this one, I will fly to L.A. and stick a Golden Idol up KK’s ass.
Fine, I’ll let myself get a little excited about this. At least we’re getting a Mads performance out of it.
Not being willing to recast Indiana Jones is stupid.
Ford is just one of four people who’ve already played the character on film or television and, given that Spielberg directed them all, drawing the line now, decades after the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Last Crusade, seems disingenuous.
Everyone but the FAA loves Ford, but if they can recast Hamlet after Laurence Olivier played him, they can recast Indiana Jones and actually tell some World War II era stories with the character again.
Or just make a new franchise about a globetrotting adventurer and avoid the backlash of recasting the part, since there’s nothing special about Indiana Jones beyond Harrison Ford.
Um, Spielberg didn’t direct “Young Indiana Jones.”
Yes, it was so weird that they recast Hamlet after Laurence Olivier originated the role.
Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones
Why?! This is the biggest problem with this movie!Spielberg has been adamant that Ford will be the only person to ever play the role of Indy Jones, because come on, he’s irreplaceable.
This is fucking stupid. Nobody’s irreplaceable.
Please, someone stop this. I don’t care how many jobs are created by this movie. Someone kill this, now, before it HURTS someone.
Why would they call it Indiana Jones 5 when there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies? You’re being silly, LucasFilm.
damn dude that is literally the funniest joke i’ve ever heard, holy shit do you do standup? you should try standup i bet you’d kill, audiences have been starving to hear jokes nobody else has told and if you got on an open mic, after a year of covid, you’d bring the damn house down, i’m serious this could be your chance. a couple more zingers like that one — i’ve heard something about die hard and christmas, i dunno if i could make it work but somebody as funny as you could do something with that i’m sure — and you’ve got a legendary set, forget carlin, forget pryor, it’ll be your name on marquees and netflix comedy specials for a decade at least. it’s incredible to see the beginning of a legendary career unfold before my eyes, i’m just so blessed to be able to witness this
My mom is super-pumped for this. She saw I, II and III in the theatre, unequivocally loves III and didn’t see IV because III runs on TV so often she didn’t think she had to. She’s also 80 and likes to joke she has a shot with Harrison Ford, because, as she says, “have you SEEN men my age? He’s still hot!”
Indiana Jones should just be put in a museum, and left there. Make some videogames instead.
Y’know what, Crystal Skull was not worse than X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Mangold saved that IP. I’ll give him a shot here.
He belongs in a museum!
I think we can all agree that this is the worst thing to happen in the last two years
Indy IV was so bad that I never wanted to see the lady who I saw it with ever again, despite having had decent sex before the film.Need someone to see Indy V with who’s not my wife.
I miss the Craigslist ads too, buddy.
Yeah, no worries. James Mangold and Steven Spielberg are practically the same thing. Once they work out the CGI to make Harrison Ford look like he’s running, this should be first-rate.
NO CGI REQUIRED
Mangold has a very solid filmography. Frankly, I’d much rather the guy who directed “Logan” and “3:10 to Yuma” take a crack at the character than the guy whose recent output consists of “Ready Player One” and “The BFG.”
We already have Indiana JOAN. I think her name is Laura Kroft.
Who’s Laura Kroft (see upthread for the origin of this joke.)
It’s about goddamn time..
Disney+ – reboot Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, cast some guy, back up the Disney Brinks truck, tell Ford he literally needs to film 8 minutes an episode as “old Indy”… and ride that to another streaming bonanza.
At almost 79, Ford’s “geriatric adventures” might be more along the lines of a broken hip, chronic irregularity, and an enlarged prostate.Awww, fuck it. Who am I kidding? Even at his age I’d cram a fist full of Viagra down his throat, kick his walker right out from under him, and jump his decrepit old bones. In any event, I’ll be the first on line at the theater if Harrison Ford survives filming this one.
While I certainly would have preferred they not make a 5th movie at all (and, of course, I desperately wish they hadn’t made the fourth), the only two facts that encourage me is that James Mangold is directing and that Lucas isn’t involved in running the story into the ground.Old Man Spielberg did a dreadful job on the last Indy film and, to be fair, his heart clearly wasn’t in it.Mangold absolutely as the right sensibility to get the series back to its roots, meaning it’s original, “Raiders”style tone, without the light goofiness of “Last Crusade” and the cartoonish crapola of KOTCS.
Following the arc of the series, I presume Indy 5 is set in the 1960s and the titular archeology professor gives the hippies in his class a stern talking to before taking down a Manson-esque cult and recovering a magic belt that used to belong to King Solomon or something.
Is there any franchise more beloved that has a worse good:bad ratio than Indy? First film, easily among the top 20 movies ever made. Second film, mostly a pointless exercise in trying to gross out slasher-film obsessed 80s audiences. Third film, soft and doughy but generally fine, and truly excellent at certain points – Connery was great. Fourth film, absolute dreck.
I’m actually looking forward to this. Mangold is a good director and having fresh eyes on the series could be just what it needs. Ford clearly enjoys the character. If nothing else we won’t have to look at Janusz Kaminski’s blown out cinematography.
Kinja’s doing that thing again when I click on my notifications and it DOESN’T take me to the appropriate response. UUUGH.
Spielberg has been adamant that Ford will be the only person to ever play the role of Indy Jones
Except for River Phoenix, Corey Carrier, Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Doug Lee, David Esch, and John Armstrong, but that is where he draws the line.