Chris Pratt is the perfect actor right now to play a younger Indy but if anything I could see Spielberg going down the ILM CG de-aging route for Harrison like they are doing for Scorsese with Robert DeNiro on The Irishman. If its good enough for DeNiro + ILM then its good enough for Harrison but the voice is still a lot older not sure how they could ever fix that. It also seems a lot of time, effort & money for nothing.Z dweller said:The expected duration of the casting process for the WSS remake had me thinking.
Let's assume that the final Indy 5 script calls for flashback scenes with a younger actor.
Presumably the search for such actor would be shrouded in secrecy, in order not to give the plot away.
How long before shooting would they start looking?
Could they be looking already, for all we know?
IndyForever said:Chris Pratt is the perfect actor right now to play a younger Indy but if anything I could see Spielberg going down the ILM CG de-aging route for Harrison like they are doing for Scorsese with Robert DeNiro on The Irishman. If its good enough for DeNiro + ILM then its good enough for Harrison but the voice is still a lot older not sure how they could ever fix that. It also seems a lot of time, effort & money for nothing.
Doing the former would be the smarter move in more ways than one.Lambonius said:The only question is whether or not it will happen through flashback scenes in THIS movie, or if they'll save it for a full reboot in the next one.
Lambonius said:Christ Pratt is both too old and too jacked to play a convincing Indy. If they recast, they'll go with a lesser-known actor who is on the young side, because recasting is a long-term investment in the future of the IP. They're not going to cast someone who is pushing 40 like Pratt. No way, no how.
Controversy aside, CGI de-aging is also a terrible long-term investment for the future of the franchise. Disney wants to set themselves up to be able to milk the Indy IP far into the future. The only logical course of action from a business perspective is to recast with a much younger actor.
The only question is whether or not it will happen through flashback scenes in THIS movie, or if they'll save it for a full reboot in the next one.
Face_Palm said:Nobody really gravitated to a 20 year old Indy...
Face_Palm said:I don?t think Pratt will be cast. But Harrison was 40 in Raiders, we should expect the new Indy to be about that age. Nobody really gravitated to a 20 year old Indy...
Randy_Flagg said:I agree, I think 20 is a bit TOO young. It worked okay for the opening to LC because the point was to show his roots, but I don't think it would sustain an entire movie. The absolute youngest should be late 20s, but preferably no younger than mid-30s. Indy needs to seem knowledgeable, worldly and bit weathered, which is something a 20 year old simply can't convincingly portray.
Randy_Flagg said:I agree, I think 20 is a bit TOO young. It worked okay for the opening to LC because the point was to show his roots, but I don't think it would sustain an entire movie. The absolute youngest should be late 20s, but preferably no younger than mid-30s. Indy needs to seem knowledgeable, worldly and bit weathered, which is something a 20 year old simply can't convincingly portray.
If only the Spielberg who made that shot would turn up for Indy 5 instead of the post his popcorn era Spielberg I still think that transition shot is one of the greatest in all the Indy films. Perfect staging, editing, sound, music & atmospherePale Horse said:Best casting, ever....
Who was, if I recall, 20 years old while filming this....