With 'The Force Awakens' on track to become the highest-grossing film in box office history, I believe it's very likely that Disney will adopt the same strategy of going back to the roots of the film series, when they finally start working on Indy 5.
Obviously, not everyone is happy with TFA, despite ticket sales.
Lucas called it a ?retro movie? and jokingly admitted to having ?sold his children to the white slavers?, while hard core SW fans are annoyed by the extent to which TFA?s storyline is simply a rehash of
A New Hope.
But do Disney care?
I very much doubt it, in fact I expect them to give Indy 5 exactly the same treatment.
At this stage, I am pretty sure that they?ll make it a prequel set in the late 20s or early 30s, with a new actor in the main role (at least for most of the movie, I still think it?s possible Ford may get a bookend-type part, but only if they get going in the next year or so).
In terms of storyline, to a certain extent is inevitable for any Indy prequel not to be based on the familiar elements: a potentially dangerous macguffin coveted by bad guys, booby traps, puzzles to solve, exotic locations.
The key question is: will they just shamelessly rip off
Raiders, or try to be a bit more inventive?
Personally, I credit Disney with the ability to come up with an original story without resorting to too much copying/pasting in the script, and find a good actor to play younger Indy (probably a semi-unknown like Ridley and Boyega), so on the whole I?m optimistic.
What are your thoughts?
