Udvarnoky said:
I don't care how relaxed post-production is -- it's not going to take two years of active work. Time is still money. The movie will be on a shelf for year.
Your missing the point still! All this post production work cost a LOT of money. If they rush it like most films do to make a release date it adds tens of millions of dollars in overheads to the visual effects & post production editing budgets.
By going slow they can save up to $100m which increases massively the break even point for the studio. POTC4 box office in US was very low. Only outside US box office saved that film from financial failure.
POTC5 is going slow due to them using way cheaper VFX studios overseas & slow unrushed post production. This means it costs a lot less so the profit margin is massive & the studio risk to Disney very low.
What typically happens on most sequels is they get a release date, then a rushed story, then a budget, then realise its not going to make the release date so they rush post production through which adds tens of millions to the budget. Its the modern lazy way to make Hollywood sequels.
POTC 5 is going very slow because its a cheap way to make the movie so they do not really care how long it takes as they know US box office will be lower its all about outside US box office which was over $800m on POTC4.
Back on topic when/if Indy5 gets made they could have a very minor crossover element like include some treasure from the POTC series which is part of the pre title series adventure.
I still think Atlantis would & could work for an Indy 5 concept. Make it a quest for camelot then turn that into camelot (via the knights of the roundtable myth) is actually an underground chamber which leads to Atlantis & a larger than life captain nemo (another Disney property no less!) character who may or may not be an Atlantian or some other unknown race. Leave it all unexplained take the less is more approach if there making 2 more Indy (filmed back to back) with Harrison part 1 can be the cliffhanger with him facing certain death & part 2 can be the resolution & explanation as well as some background to Atlantis before it all concludes with Indy barely escaping & Atlantis collapsing forever creating a new landmass (which is actually an existing landmass).
If its only as good as KOTCS & at times touches some of the OT quality your talking $1.5-2b per movie. Everyone is happy. Harrison will retire. Spielberg got his chance to redeem KOTCS (which I thought was excellent) & Disney get their $4b Lucasfilm investment back.