For and Against a Reboot

Hanselation

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CGI-Clone

Montana Smith said:
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What we need is a young Harrison clone!

I believe that's exactly that what George Lucas has in his mind - Cloning Harrison Ford by CGI in the near future. After all the meaningless informations about Indy 5 within the last years interviews of GL, SS and HF, I see Indiana Jones' next appearance on the big screen as CGI-Indy earliest in 5 years. Depending also on contract negotiations related to the rights to clone Harrison by CGI - And I don't think Harrison would allow that...but in another way: everybody has it's price.. :confused:
 

Montana Smith

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Mickiana said:
A sort of Jurassic Park of Indiana Jones???

Or like this?

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Stoo

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inky_skin said:
Harrison has been synonymous with the character since it's inception
DeepSixFix said:
Read up on the history presented on this site and elsewhere and you'll find a rich history of cinematic fedora-wearing, bullwhip cracking adventurers long before Ford.
Hi, DeepSixFix. I think Inky specifically meant the character of Indiana Jones.

With all due respect to you: Multitudes of movie heroes from the past wore fedoras and there are a few others who've cracked bullwhips but (as far as I can tell) there were NO "cinematic fedora-wearing, bullwhip cracking adventurers" before Indy. Those who've used whips usually wore cowboy-styled hats, not fedoras, so where is this "rich history"?:confused: If you could point out these characters, it would be greatly appreciated.

I don't see a "reboot" as being a major concern right now but it, most likely, will happen after Lucas, Spielberg and Ford are dead & buried.:dead::(
 

DiscoLad

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Centerfield said:
THIS IS NOT A RUMOR OR INTERNET BUZZ... I am simply asking what people would think about re-booting the Indy franchise... different actors, stories, etc.

With the right talented people in the right places, it's possible.
If they wanted to keep an older, battle-tested Indy in place (but younger than Harrison Ford) Dennis Quaid is a thought...

To go younger, but not Young Indy age, you could take a look at Matt Damon or Jeffrey Dean Morgan or, whom I think would do a great job, Patrick Wilson.

Could also have different writers and maybe directors for each new entry.

Just brainstorming something that will probably never happen...


Sounds alot to me like you want it to be like 007. (y)

Which Im cool with, but it just has to be done right or Indiana Jones will be digging himself into a deeper hole than KotCS had dug him in. New writers everytime around would also help get new stories and all that in and it would be new and interesting everytime. I guess it all depends on who is running things by directing and producing.
They had just better get it right the first movie or people are going to want to pay to see a sequel.
 

The Drifter

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I'd rather the movies end with Harrison. If part four was the last movie that stars Harrison, than please let it be the last one with the character of Indiana Jones. I do not want to see any other actor portray him on the big-screen.
Now, if we had a television series like the Young Indy Chronicles (which I hope to one day own), I could see other actors playing him.
I'll even say that I would not mind a CGI movie in the same vein as Beowulf to have Harrison's likeness. But, a live-action movie without him leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Spin-offs are a different story. I would enjoy a spin-off staring Mutt Williams, or someone else in the Indyverse that was influenced by Dr. Jones.
 

DeepSixFix

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Lonsome_Drifter said:
I'd rather the movies end with Harrison. If part four was the last movie that stars Harrison, than please let it be the last one with the character of Indiana Jones. I do not want to see any other actor portray him on the big-screen.
You're going to get a re-make of "Wizard of Oz," friend. Deal with that. I doubt very much "Indiana Jones" will be spared the re-make treatment if he can bring in an audience. Kids today, or tomorrow, don't really care about Harrison Ford. They want to be entertained by someone cool, hip, and young.

Wizard of Oz Remake
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71708
 

Sharkey

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DeepSixFix said:
You're going to get a re-make of "Wizard of Oz," friend. Deal with that. I doubt very much "Indiana Jones" will be spared the re-make treatment if he can bring in an audience. Kids today, or tomorrow, don't really care about Harrison Ford. They want to be entertained.

Wizard of Oz Remake
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71708
Who can say what cinema will be like in 70 years? Lucas already says he makes film for home video nowadays.

If we do get an Indy remake we'll probably get a SOFT HE LO STARK film first...
 

Dr Bones

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Ford may well play Indy again, but I think it's inevitable they will recast or reboot Indy one day.

Spielberg wanted to do James Bond style movies so it's not a far stretch to see Indy played by other actors in the future as with Bond.

I think Lucas and Spielberg have done well to go this long without handing it over for a shamless rip off and fast buck. Despite their recent lack of form, I have to hand it to them for not selling out and passing the franchise on to someone who will just reinvent the wheel....badly... as is happennig so much these days.

Luckily there's enough Marvel, DC and horror dross that fanboys will lap up to keep the rehashers busy and away from Indy for a while.
 

DeepSixFix

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Dr Bones said:
Ford may well play Indy again, but I think it's inevitable they will recast or reboot Indy one day.

Spielberg wanted to do James Bond style movies so it's not a far stretch to see Indy played by other actors in the future as with Bond.
On this note, interesting quote from dailymail.co.uk from Stallone on whether he'd pass the torch on Rambo...

"Asked recently if he would consider making a Rambo prequel to the four films he starred in, Stallone said: 'I certainly think this is worth pondering because it's intriguing to find the whys and wherefores of how people have come to become what they are.

'That trauma, the loss, and the tragedy of being in Vietnam would certainly be a great challenge for a young actor, and it would be ironic that Rambo directs younger Rambo after having played it for 20 plus years.'"


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-Schwarzenegger-red-carpet.html#ixzz19eux5PGW
 

foreignerfred

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If done well, I think the film adaptation of Uncharted could do for Indy what the Bourne movies did for Bond.

Bond movies were beginning to run their course when The Bourne Identity came out. The phrase "Better than Bond!" and variations splashed acrossed magazine covers and entertainment websites. Not long after, Bond was rebooted with a new actor in Casino Royale, adopting, unsurprisingly, a Bourne-influenced revamp.

A faithful adaptation of Uncharted could easily lead to "Better than Indiana Jones!" headlines, causing George to consider the possibilites a reboot or prequel might offer (his bank account).

Lucas might be moldy, slow, and unmotivated, but he gets competitive when he feels like people are beating him at his own game (ex. Avatar beats Lucas to 3D innovation success, and now we're getting the Star Wars series 3D re-releases [yes, I know he's been talking about doing that for a long time, but it seems clear to me the Avatar situation goaded him on. "That should've been ME!"])

There will be another actor in the role of Indiana Jones eventually. It's only a matter of time. We all know it. We can't stop it. Some of us don't want to.

Harrison, Steven, and George created a character that became a legend, an American icon...that's bigger than ALL of them.

(Brolin for Indy)
 

WillKill4Food

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foreignerfred said:
Not long after, Bond was rebooted with a new actor in Casino Royale, adopting, unsurprisingly, a Bourne-influenced revamp.
But Bond had already been "re-booted" several times before. It was a given that someday someone would replace Brosnan as 007.

As such...
foreignerfred said:
There will be another actor in the role of Indiana Jones eventually. It's only a matter of time. We all know it. We can't stop it. Some of us don't want to.
I don't think that's a realistic assumption. James Bond has influenced pop culture more than Indiana Jones. Ian Fleming's Bond had made his way into the public conscious before Dr. No ever hit theaters.

I don't think Indiana Jones will get a reboot. I hope the series doesn't. After seeing KotCS, I personally wish they had just left the trilogy as it was. That's not to say that I hated the fourth film, per se, but I think the others were better.

Regardless, I don't think the series is sustainable. The Indy fan base isn't as wide as the Star Wars base, and Indiana Jones offers a different kind of story. I think the time has come for a new adventurer from someone other than Lucas (I would still be open to Spielberg directing, though). Perhaps an Uncharted film would offer that, but I don't know. The Mummy films might be the closest we've gotten to that in recent years, but Rick O'Connell couldn't fill Indy's shoes.
 

Indy's brother

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I'd like to see an Indy movie with Ford that is more universally accepted before a reboot. And even then, I'd have a time accepting it if Ford was still alive. It would seem weird to me watching an Indiana Jones film knowing that Harry was still around. He was right when he said that he "earned that hat". The place (well, one of the places) where the Bond argument fails is that we haven't seen 007 go through the aging process and character development as we have with Dr. Jones through their respective franchises.
 

Mickiana

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What I want: Another Indy flick with Harry, but an improvement on KotCS; Maybe a sixth one if they have it in them; when they don't have it in them, pass the license over to young, fresh talent and reboot it.
 

Mickiana

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I don't think it depends on Harrison so much as it does Lucas. We are all fearful of his aura of lethargy, which seems to be the only thing in the way of bringing Indy5 to light. Or maybe there is something in the pipeline. Secrecy has always surrounded it.
 
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