There's four movies. So, actually, it
is a series by now. Not to mention a decent Expanded Universe, but an admittedly under-exposed one...
Still not a series its an 80's trilogy + part 1 of Harrisons new Indy trilogy! Bond was 12 Fleming books & 2 other books of short stories created by Fleming. All richly detailed providing a lot of material to draw from.
And I'm pretty sure I've read elsewhere that part of Berg and Lucas' deal in the start was for at least five Indy movies. So...yeah. And even if Indy WASN'T meant to be a series, what the heck does that matter? The concept is too awesome to waste on just a handful of movies, when Indiana Jones is actually a much richer, more diverse premise than people give it credit for. There's more than just four mythic artifacts in the world to look for, you know...
Harrison IS the widely accepted concept of Indiana Jones you know! That's the huge problem for Disney its not just me but to most of the audience
I can't decide if I'm amused or saddened by the mixture of cynicism and total disrespect to the many young, talented modern actors at work today. Can you choose for me? Please? Just choose wisely...
Its not disrepect its based on watching many movies for years there are no standout talents capable of doing Indiana Jones justice IMO. That's also ignoring where are the next Lucas/Spielberg behind the scenes building the story & adventure?
Quite a few of them are, yes. But was, say, Peter Jackson just doing it for money and trading on goodwill for the character by making his Kong remake? No, it was because he has a mad crush on the old film and wanted to make a gushing love letter to his favorite movie of all time. The final product isn't perfect...but made purely as a cash grab? Excuse me while I wipe my eyes from laughing.
King King was terrible just a vanity project to try & lure Jackson away with the promise of bringing LOTR grosses to Universal!Universal funded it on that basis not to keep Jackson happy!!
The show tried to give Indy further character development and show different layers to who he is and how he became who he was in the films...but hey, its not Harrison Ford, so it was a total mistake to flesh out the character? Ugh...
It was a history lesson show but even then to me it did not work as Harrison only appeared in part of 1 episode as guess what going back to my earlier point......Harrison IS Indiana Jones! It was well made, everyone did a good job but Lucas only made it as he saw a way to get education funded to kids by using Indiana Jones world to tell the story via history lessons intermingling with the 30/40's world. If Lucas could have got the money another way it would probably never have existed.
The hilarious irony of your username is that your stance is entirely in favor of the Indiana Jones series
not lasting forever. Not even having
a proper life, for God's sake.