avidfilmbuff
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I mentioned in a previous post that each of the Indy films seems to be a tribute to a different type of escapist entertainment. Raiders is a Saturday matinee film, Temple is 1930's pulp fiction, Crusade is a 1930's Hollywood Blockbuster, and Kingdom is a 1950's B movie. So if there is a fifth Indiana Jones, how would it be made to emulate. Well I know that many Indy fans are wishing for a more darker film, which gave me an idea. Why not make the fifth Indy film in the style of a Hammer horror film. For those of you who don't know, Hammer is a United Kingdom film production company that was notable for making horror films in the 50's, 60's, and the 70's. Reportedly, George Lucas is himself a huge Hammer fan, which would explain why Hammer alumni Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were cast in the Star Wars films, besides the fact they are both terrific actors. But anyway, back to Indiana Jones, here is my proposition for a Hammer Indiana Jones film.
The film begins with some unrelated adventure. When he gets back to Marshall College he receives a letter from an old professor of his, played by none other than Christopher Lee, to meet him in Dartmoor, all you Sherlock Holmes fans should know where that is. When he arrives, his old professor asks him to recover some macguffin, which I have no idea what it would be. When he finds it he makes the shocking discovery that his old professor is actually the head priest of a sinister neopagan which wishes to use the macguffin to bring about evil spirits to help them take control of the world. The climax would be Lee successfully managing to raise the evil spirits, which instead destroys him, and it's up to Indy to drive them back to where they belong.
Making a Hammer Indy film would make for a perfect opportunity to make the darker Indy film that everybody wishes for. So how about it everyone? A Hammer Indy film?
The film begins with some unrelated adventure. When he gets back to Marshall College he receives a letter from an old professor of his, played by none other than Christopher Lee, to meet him in Dartmoor, all you Sherlock Holmes fans should know where that is. When he arrives, his old professor asks him to recover some macguffin, which I have no idea what it would be. When he finds it he makes the shocking discovery that his old professor is actually the head priest of a sinister neopagan which wishes to use the macguffin to bring about evil spirits to help them take control of the world. The climax would be Lee successfully managing to raise the evil spirits, which instead destroys him, and it's up to Indy to drive them back to where they belong.
Making a Hammer Indy film would make for a perfect opportunity to make the darker Indy film that everybody wishes for. So how about it everyone? A Hammer Indy film?