Udvarnoky said:
I'm feeling some downright "Raiders112390" pangs of paranoia about Disney's commitment to this project.
I know I sound paranoid, but I really do feel that after Carrie's passing, I think Disney want Harrison out of the way. I mean, look at all the positive buzz TDK got because of Heath Ledger's passing. It was a great film regardless, but it got even more buzz with a dead Ledger than it would've with him alive. They can bank on the public's good will and nostalgia for a deceased Ford. I'm sorry, I know it sounds paranoid, but I don't trust large corporations. They just saw not six months ago how sudden death can come with Carrie dying at a decade younger than Harrison is. They saw Harrison's near miss with a plane only a few months ago. The man is going to be 75. And they want to push it back even further??? Come on now.
Stoo said:
His Disney "paranoia" didn't start until recently (which was a 180° degree turn from 2012).
A select few have been aware of the dangerous Disney acquisition. This news shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone with a brain.
A lot changes in five years. I didn't realize how insidious Disney was then. In 2012, Disney was the childhood movies I loved. Not a soulless corporation. I got older and wised up.
Not to bring politics into it, but this will now be the third term an Indy film is released during an election year:
TOD - 1984 - Reagan vs. Mondale
KOTCS - 2008 - Obama vs. McCain
Indy V - 2020 - Trump vs ????
It doesn't bode well. Raiders and LC, which were better received than the other two, were released in the first years of a new Presidency (1981, first year of Reagan's presidency; 1989 first year of GHW Bush's).
2020 will mark 39 years since Raiders, 31 years since LC, and 12 years since KOTCS.
Also, if they move real life time between films in tandem with time between Indy's adventures, 2008 (1957) to 2020 would bring us to 1969 in Indy's world. Not an era I want to see Indy in. Early 1960s I could accept. 1969...Altamont, Woodstock? Meh...