lao che & sons
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your story has potential , but I want to see a screenplay before I judge
visionz13 said:NO MORE, I REPEAT, NO MORE MARION GETTING KIDNAPPED!!!
How about no more Marion, PERIOD!!
I just saw some pictures of Sean Connery recently, he still looks good. What if he was believed to be dead when say *his plane crashed* or something, but he actually isnt. Indy starts recieving letters with clues to something, and that eventually leads him to re-teaming with his father, and now we have three generations of Jones'. Why cant we get Connery back? Money talks.
I predict correct, so you expect.
emtiem said:Okay, here's some ideas I've been having. Not fully fleshed-out and with some vague details in some places, but some areas where I could see the film developing! I've taken some the aspects of City of the Gods which I thought were particularly good and which I'd like to see make it to the next film.
Start the film in perhaps Mexico: Indy is on a field trip with his students (it'd be fun to have him dressed sort of half-college Professor and half adventure Indy etc. etc.......
emtiem said:Cool- glad you like it! I thought it being in the 50's a glamorous Hitchcock-feel might be nice to kick the film off: Indy as The Wrong Man and all that! (And obviously there's a shocking North By Northwest ripoff in there too! Actually, why not go the whole hog and have him chased down on foot by two MASH-style helicopters!) Not sure if I made it clear but the idea is that Indy is framed in order to stop the press conference and discredit anything he's already revealed to anyone: someone wants his discovery kept quiet!
Add in a bit of Da Vinci Code-style secret society stuff and you've got some slightly new ground for Indy, although obviously he'll need to get back to riding a horse at some point! I must have a think about it a bit more and work out where he goes...
Darth Vile said:I think there are many here (as we've discussed it in other threads), who'd like to see a "Hitchcockian" type Indy on the run movie... as it harkens back to a distinct genre type of enjoyable romp.
Hans said:I want willie scott back darn it
lao che & sons said:I much as I love Willie Scott there is no way that she could come back and make it be a coincidense. And because I believe she because a film star in the 40's it would take more than a coincidense to get her back.
sandiegojones said:Agreed. No Marion except for a small cameo (if it takes place after KOTCS).
What would be really interesting would be to have the film take place about 2 years prior to KOTCS and we see Henry Sr. die in the film. That could give the film an emotional lift that was missing from KOTCS (as well as making Indy's remarks to Stanforth in Skull more meaningful).
I like the idea of an Ancient Greek artifact or perhaps or perhaps a Norse one. I'd like to see some snowy environments or more sea faring set pieces. Deserts and jungles have been done enough I think. Sticking with ancient religions is good, but it doesn't have to be Judeo-Christian.
I could see Indy being in Thailand, Cambodia or Vietnam. The French were involved in Vietnam in the mid to late 50's before the US began fighting. I don't see Indy going into the 60's so this is a good place to end since the Vietnam War really changed things from that decade on. Perhaps Indy could have some French colleague there and then they get caught up in battle and then could have an "Apocalypse Now" style journey along a river to an ancient temple. Thailand has awesome beaches and temples. Plenty of natives in the jungles too.
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Indy's brother said:Wasn't Indy billed as an "Atomic Age Adventurer" for KOTCS? In keeping with that theme, how about something like this? An unexplainable/out-of-place artifact like the Dropa Stones (which apparently make some kind of eerie noise when oscillated, btw) hint at an alternate history of earth. A prehistoric earth with advanced technology whose history has been obliterated by an ancient full-scale global nuclear war. This could explain away all out-of-place artifacts. Abandoned ruins like the cliff-dwellers, or the Mayans (simply vaporized by a neutron bomb before they could use their own weapon?). Or the as-of-yet unsubstantiated lost city beneath Death Valley that supposedly contained mummies of 9 foot men buried along with mummified dinosaurs could be used. At least for inspiration.
The artifact/macguffin that drives the story would be the key to finding or triggering an ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Fits the Cold War atomic age themes, eh? Kind of derivative of ROTLA, I know, but not biblical. There are all kinds of ways to approach this Indy 5 concept, the small pyramids in Greece that resemble fallout shelters. The vitrified forts of scotland, tektite found in places all over the globe, etc, etc... There's a huge amount of theories and half-baked evidence online supporting the concept. I know it's a sketchy plot idea, but what do you guys think? Anyone want to build on this?
yeah!! the fountain of youth would be cool!! the Soviets should still be the bad guys though.I♥Indy said:How about indy must find the fountain of youth