Raiders112390 said:
Let's say you're in charge of Indy at LF. Let's also say Indy V is released with Harrison and it was a success.
1) Where do you from there? Total reboot? Prequels?
2) What remains canon?
3) What do you do about the YIJC? Options are:
1) Render it non-canon
2) Keep it canon, but don't reference it.
3) Keep it canon and reference it
4) Keep core details (like Indy serving as a spy in WWI and certain flames)
canon, but disregard the rest
4) If you do prequels, what year do you start? When do you stop?
5) Do you do any interquels (IE WW2 era Indy films) that exist in the current continuety?
6) What happens to the novels, games, comics, etc?
1)
Curmudgeon created a robust foray into this very topic:
Post-"Indy 5" Film Models
2) Success (or failure) of #5 with Harrison wouldn't affect canonicity one way or the other.
Unless, of course, the new movie has Indy saying something like, "After riding with Villa, I returned to school and never got involved in The Great War. Played piano instead. I was crazy about ragtime."
3) See your other thread on this:
Should future Indy films retcon the YIJC?
4) See your other thread on this:
How far back should a (post Harrison) prequel go?
5) No films or TV shows set between 1935-57 unless they are animated or use a perfect CG replica of Harrison Ford.
6) What happens to the novels & comics? They get reprinted & repackaged for a new wave of consumers.
Olliana said:
If I have to read 'flashback' or 'book-ending' one more time, I'll go berserk.
Even more irksome is the constant misuse of the word, "cameo". You'd think that film enthusiasts would learn the proper terminology when discussing things like, y'know, films!
TheFirebird1 said:
4. Start after 1930. Finish around 1945. Don't really want to see a new Indy in the 20s (that's what YIJC was for) or in the 50s-60s (that's Harrison's time).
Hello, Firebird. The '50s-'60s are Harrison's time but 1935-45 is not?
This question is about prequels and anything during those years wouldn't be a prequel. Plus, the "Chronicles" end in 1920 (with unproduced episodes set in 1921) so that decade is not 'what YIJC was for". Prequels should start no earlier than late 1920 and stop in late 1934. It's not rocket science, mate.