Indy Jones
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TheFirebird1 said:
Fare thee well, Indy 5, we hardly knew ye.
In all honesty, though, I'm still holding onto some hope for the film actually getting released. A man can dream, or at least try to.
Even if this spells the end of Ford's run on the character, Disney won't sit on those rights--they're worth too much. Indiana Jones will return. They didn't buy the distribution rights to future Indy films from Paramount for nothing.
A new film is the lynchpin. We won't likely see a lick of anything else Indy without a film for Disney to piggyback on, promotionally. Frankly, a new film starring Harrison wasn't likely to be the kind of revival that Disney wants out of the franchise. A fifth film with Harrison reads, to me, as an olive branch to the old guard of the series (Lucas/Spielberg/Ford/Marshall and Kennedy) before they get someone in the role that will bring new, younger fans in.
If a franchise can't grow it's fanbase, it's doomed. Indy has prettymuch been a (well-loved but) dead franchise since before KOTCS. New generations aren't invested in our Dr. Jones (if they even know who he is) and honestly new installments with an old man ain't gonna bring in the youngsters.
Now, before someone here over-reacts to my statements (*cough*), I'm not anti-Ford and I'm not pro-change-the-series. I don't want a hip new reinvention of Young Indy set in the modern day with music by Justin Bieber. I'm a realist, and a fan of the character. I want the character to survive and for the franchise to come back from obscurity (a cartoon series and new video games would be damn nice), and if getting a new face in the fedora will do that, then I'm open to it. If Disney got someone like Chris Pratt (I said it! Get your crucifixes!), then that gets fans of his to maybe be fans of Indiana Jones.
A big mistake of fandoms is an immense resistance to change. I don't know about you, but I don't want to hide in my house like a common troll keeping Indiana Jones to myself, stuck with only the same content and never getting anything new. When I see Back to the Future fans talking the same topics over and over and over, I cringe. It's a dead franchise.
I want to see Indy be mainstream again. I want to see kids come out of an Indy movie totally digging it, perhaps inspired to seek out some info about archaeology. For my customers/coworkers to be even aware of who/what Indy is. Indy needs to be relevant again. If we have to lose a fifth film with Harrison to get that, I can deal with it. I don't want this character to be locked to a club of 30 y.o.+ man-children. Let's get some fresh blood.
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