Mad Magazine Indy parodies

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Was just watching the Godfather featurettes, with Lucas and Spielberg, and thought everyone should know their movie history. From the Big Book of the 70's, courtesy of JuniorJones of course!

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Thanks InBanana, it seems I'm not using the Archive to its fullest extent!

It's hard to believe only 13 Mad movie parodies have been published since Indy 4.
 

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We recently discovered Raiders parodies in National Lampoon and Playboy. The latter contains side boob and is probably the most risque image on the Raider. It gets a pass because it's the best art of them all, by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder who helped launch MAD in the 50's and came back during the 80's. Just don't get any ideas about what you can post at the Raven!

I looked at Heavy Metal; they illustrated Blade Runner but not Indy. Where else might we find comics parodies?
 

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Raiders and Temple Mad artist Jack Davis, born 1924, is "the only surviving artist of the EC horror comics." Here's some of his 2014 work, still good. Maybe when Indy 5 is cast and filming in 2018 someone should commission some new art based on whatever images have leaked?
 

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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (currently on Netflix) is a great look at National Lampoon during the early 70's peak of satirical publishing. Karen Allen wound up in the deleted scenes. And there's a thanks in the credits to some other OCD fansite.
Thoughts on Animal House (1080p; 1.78:1; 10:17): Ivan Reitman, Kevin Bacon ("Diller"), Karen Allen ("Katy"), Martha Smith ("Babs"), Stephen Furst ("Dorfman"), Tim Matheson ("Stratton") and John Landis relate personal anecdotes about making the film.
 

Moedred

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There have been no new film spoofs in Mad since 2019... until now, sort of, through a crowd-sourced campaign. Desmond Devlin: "Mad spoofed eight Star Wars movies in a row. That's every one except for the finale. Come on! Somebody's got to finish the saga." Plus Blade Runner. So there's hope for an Indy 5 spoof.

It's great to see Ford on the cover. Like the 1985 gift to subscribers, Mort Drucker's Mad Show Stoppers, which featured Indy on the front and Vader on the back, but contained mostly parodies from the 1960s and 1970s.

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Claptrap ships in June. Only a few hundred orders so far buy nearly $80K raised? They mention "two Megalomaniac backers" and until revealed, I have to imagine Spielberg and Lucas.
 

Moedred

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Claptrap ships in June. Only a few hundred orders so far buy nearly $80K raised? They mention "two Megalomaniac backers" and until revealed, I have to imagine Spielberg and Lucas.
The two megalomaniacs, who got to choose one parody each, are Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4 director) and attorney Lucas A. Ferrara (who chose Psycho). From the oldest updates:
Fundraising veterans also suggested that we offer one big ticket item. Ours was the Megalomaniac option, where a single backer could unilaterally choose a movie, order us to parody it, and receive all the original pages of the spoof. This one perk cost more than all the other perks put together. Frankly, even with an Indiegogo campaign lasting 60 days, we never really expected these to sell. They were both gone by the second week. Josh Cooley made his feature film directing debut last year with a small, low-budget indie project. It did okay. Perhaps you’ve heard of TOY STORY 4?
Then, along came Lucas A. Ferrara. Lucas is universally regarded as the greatest lawyer alive today. (If we don’t say that, he might sue us!) But even more importantly, he’s a Megalomaniac backer. That’s the tip-top tier where one single person got to unilaterally choose a movie, and make us parody it. But Lucas likes a LOT of different kinds of movies. So he took his time deciding, especially after he found out just how many stellar, essential, “how did they skip THAT?” films had never been parodied. Emails flew between the three of us, as he variously considered picking a rock musical, a superhero film, a Biblical epic, a period drama with an ensemble cast, a rollicking comedy-adventure, and an admired film about family and race, among others. Any of which would have been terrific choices, by the way.
Here's how voting shook out for the most wanted unmade Mad parodies (top 3 are made it):
1. THE BLUES BROTHERS
2. THE PRINCESS BRIDE
3. CITIZEN KANE
4. The Terminator
5. Fargo
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7. Enter the Dragon
8. Black Panther
9. Pirates of the Caribbean
10. Dr. Strangelove
11. Taxi Driver, also The Thing (tie)
And these had multiple votes. So if there's a follow up book, some of these are what to expect. (Die Hard was announced later.)
A Hard Day’s Night, A Night at the Opera, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension, Almost Famous, Big Trouble in Little China, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Blazing Saddles, Boogie Nights, Bourne Identity, Caddyshack, Casino Royale, Contagion, Die Hard, Dune, Fight Club, First Blood, Forbidden Planet, Get Out, Great Escape, Guardians of the Galaxy, Halloween, It, John Wick, Labyrinth, Leon The Professional, Mary Poppins (1964 version), Niagara, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Reservoir Dogs, Road House, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rudy, Seven Samurai, Singin’ in the Rain, Smokey and the Bandit, Some Like It Hot, Somewhere in Time, Spartacus, Ten Commandments, To Kill a Mockingbird, Young Frankenstein
From Tom Richmond a while back:

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