Gobi-1 said:If they were to do a series they should make it exactly like the old serials from the 1930s. Have one storyline told over 12 to 15 episodes. With all the episodes save for the last ending with a cliffhanger. The individual episodes could be around ten minutes so you could get two episodes per half hour show. Or they could pull a Clone Wars and just show one ten minute episode over 12 to 15 nights.
inky_skin said:Given that Uncle George is currently enthusiastically promoting the Clone Wars animated outing at the movies, could Lucas Animation play a viable part in the future of Indy ?
- The fact that, although Indy IV was divisive amongst fans and critics, it made a decent box office return - so the franchise is still (relatively) healthy and therefore viable for further entries
- Indy V, on film, with the major principal leads returning, is - despite fansite clamour - unlikely. Animation would get around this, with actors providing voiceovers only - or substituted with voice artistsQUOTE]
1)Just a point of clarification; I think $700million+ qualifies as a little better than 'decent' box office. Despite what some very vocal fans said, the majority of the audience liked the film.
2)I take it you missed Ford this week. Lucas is in story mode for #5, HF is interested in returning, and Speilberg is thinking about it. Ford has also said he's not interested in taking the character to the animated medium as it would diminish the work that they'd done to this point.
Personally, I'm hoping the "other projects" over at LFA include the back-burner Frankenstein feature ILM has been toying with for a decade now.
Dewy9 said:If there can be Indy comics, novels, and video games, how would an animated TV series cheapen him?
DIrishB said:Agreed. I don't understand the naysayers.
How do side projects affect the quality of the original in any way? If an Indy animated show is no good, its no good, but it doesn't detract from the quality of Raiders, or Last Crusade, etc. And if it sucks, it won't last. But then again, it could be surprisingly excellent. Why not at least look forward to the opportunity of a new Indy story which could actually be good, instead of bashing on something thats only rumor anyway? Its not like footage, or news pertaining to plot or the approach they'd take has even been released yet. Hell, the existance of such a show has only been rumored!
How can any of you make up your mind already, knowing nothing about this theoretical show? Merely because it would be animated in some way instead of live action? Seriously? I wouldn't call that fair or logical decision making.
Fate of Atlantis wasn't a live-action movie...it was a pixelated video game. And so was Infernal Machine, etc. Both of those were great games, and both featured great, Indy-like stories. Why the same can't be applied to a 2D animated show (my preferred approach) or even 3D/CGI (not my preferred approach, but I could live with it) in some people's mind is beyond me. The new Indy comic releases by Dark Horse, Tomb of the Gods and Adventures, Vol 1 were both excellent Indy stories, each with their own style of art. The more simplistic art style from Adventures would probaby be the more likely choice for an animated show, but it worked in the comic and I'm positive it could work in animated form. The scripts for each are even perfect for such a project...violence is toned down without toning down the suspense or adventure.
The whole "I won't watch this" complaining makes no sense to me.
RONDC20 said:I'm right there with you. I just cant understand people's close mindedness about animation in general. How simply because it's animated that it must be for kids. I hate how people quickly write off animation.
This is a HUGE!!! Pet Peve of mine. This ignorance about animation as a medium. It's way better than it used to be, but we have a long way before we get to the point that the japanese are.
Animated Indiana Jones works. It works great.
BTW I'm still not hearing your opinions on thoes titles.
DIrishB said:I'd go with The Adventures of Indiana Jones.
RONDC20 said:I'm right there with you. I just cant understand people's close mindedness about animation in general. How simply because it's animated that it must be for kids. I hate how people quickly write off animation.
This is a HUGE!!! Pet Peve of mine. This ignorance about animation as a medium. It's way better than it used to be, but we have a long way before we get to the point that the japanese are.
Animated Indiana Jones works. It works great.
BTW I'm still not hearing your opinions on thoes titles.
Nurhachi1991 said:I would love to see an Indy TV series on adult swim or something no kiddy bs but a raw gritty series
it could take place in the 40s so the Nazis would still be in it there would be gore some language ect.
RONDC20 said:Things can get dark and gritty, but never too much so.
Deckard said:Die Hard's violence is all cut up anytime its aired on cable, ok.
What in Die Hard is more violent then the stuff in Raiders? You gotta cut the boobies poster on the wall in the elevator shaft and all the Mother F'rs. But they cut away when people are shot.
Now I love when people say Indy isn't violent, bcuz Raiders is my fav and I can go through the list which when you hear it, may seem more violent then thought. I'll stick to the stand outs.
Forrestal is impaled and rotting, Satipo is freshly impaled and bloody through most notably, his neck. Raven Bar, men are shot, lit on fire, a man is burning and shot in the face, gushing blood from his wound and mouth. Guys are stabbed, shot some more in Cairo, they deal with pretty much slavery, also again in ToD with the kids, the German Mechanic is chopped apart by rotor blades, his blood splatters a Swastika. How do you think Cartoon Network feels about the Swastika? Men go over the cliff, Indy is shot in the arm, our heroe's blood splatters onto the camera and all over the cab, then a guy gets ran over, Toht's skin melts, then his muscles etc, all dripping down onto his suit, Deitrech's head implodes inward on itself, Belloq is cooked and his head explodes. Men are set ablaze and tossed like ragdolls skyward before being crushed and forced into the ark, a space smaller then theyre own bodies, all after they are shot through by burning laser light, which fry their internal organs or eyes. I could move onto ToD but I think you get it.
Also Indy likes to use that occassional "...Oh Sh!t..."