joelwatts said:Has he reflected publicly about his role in Hellboy?
How much knew Hurt about Indy's world before filming this movie? Playing Abner or not, is it possible he never heard about him before?A recent report pegs you as Abner Ravenwood, the father of Karen Allen's Marion Ravenwood and Indy's mentor. The man Marion also tells Indy is dead in Raiders of the Lost Ark?[A big grin spreads across Hurt's face] Hmmmm?
Kingsley said:Where there plans to shoot in Peru?
commontone said:Peru has a bad history with filmmakers. Werner Herzog and his main actor basically went insane there while filming "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (aMAZing movie btw).
commontone said:Personally I think they just weren't up for a complicated, messy globe-trotting adventure anymore, which is kind of sad. I'm sure the tax break thing sealed the deal, but I don't doubt they didn't mind being only a few hours from California.
Spielberg once said he doesn't want to make a film far away from home for his family.Adamwankenobi said:I'm not trying to criticize the film, but with all the location shooting done for Young Indy...
TheLastCrusader said:Spielberg once said he doesn't want to make a film far away from home for his family.
The Stranger said:I'm sure Indy 4 will be a FANTASTIC movie!!
And I would personally like a lot if John Hurt was really playing Abner. It would be a perfect way to create a deeper connection with the original trilogy and one of its most important characters, Marion Ravenwood.
If there's one thing I'm not convinced about (apart from aliens), that is definitely Shia LaBeouf as Indiana Jones' son. He is a GREAT actor, very talented and very nice... but I would somehow prefer if he was simply a "Short Round type" of sidekick, instead of the son of the main protagonist. Don't know... maybe the son of Marion with another man... or maybe one of the young relatives of some old friend of Indiana (Marcus, for example). Maybe it's just me, but I'm ok with something like that, while I still can't see LaBeouf as the son of Indiana Jones...
Kingsley said:LOL. Kinski was insane before filming that movie!
Yes, but Kinski wasn't looking for heavier stuff at that time... he was looking for money: "So I sell myself, for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."commontone said:Not to make this a Klaus Kinski thread, but I read that he was actually offered the role of a Nazi villain in Raiders (I'm guessing Tot). But, he said that while he would love to work with Spielberg, the script was "moronically ****ty."
He was a great actor who didn't think Indy was worth his time. Hurt's comments were nowhere near that critical, but it kind of puts things in perspective.
commontone said:They were only in Hawaii for 2 1/2 weeks. I'm sure they all could have survived on another continent for that long.
joelwatts said:When you think about how many matte paintings were used in the previous films, it doesn't really matter too much if they use a bunch of digital matte paintings in Indy 4. Its basically the same concept. So a 'digital' canyon wouldn't be any different than the matte painting cliff from the truck chase in Raiders.