Saw this interview with Shia....he's looking more and more like a "Greaser". If the "Greaser" rumors are true, maybe there is substance to everything else the article claimed. And for Indy4: the interviewer asked if he was "training on a motorcycle" and he seemed to have a nervous smile and said "no" (looking at the interviewer like he wanted him to be quiet)...and then said "I can't confirm anything" http://www.collider.com/entertainmen...id=4492&tcid=1
Good find Johan, Shia slipped up in a big way when he was asked about the training on a motorcycle. I saw him on the MTV Movie Awards a few nights back and he was rocking the slicked back greaser do then as well. When he's serious and not all smiles, he does look a bit like a younger Ford, or more like the love child of Indy and Marion.
I can't see Shia a greaser/motorcycle tough guy. I can see see him as a greaser wannabe who's an outcast and wants to be part of a motorcycle gang..but is excluded...
God bless him. The more I see from this kid, the more I like him. He seems like the most genuinely decent young person in Hollywood right now, maybe the most genuinely decent person of any age.
MsIndy07, I was a huge doubter of Labeouf until I saw both A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Disturbia. The guy is actually a talented actor, and after seeing Disturbia I see the reasons behind Spielberg's casting him. He has similar mannerisms, a dry sarcastic sense of humor, and looks like he could be a cross of Ford and perhaps Marion. Check out Disturbia if you can, and I think you'll feel more confident in Spielberg's decision. He's going to have to get a few hairs on his chest though in the next few years if he was ever to continue the series in any way. I hope that doesn't happen, but if it did the guy is gonna have to mature in a big way.
Sciwolf, in interviews he does seem to be a pretty decent genuine guy. He impressed me with the remark that he just wanted to be an actor, and never a celebrity because to him that was "poisonous".
God bless him. The more I see from this kid, the more I like him. He seems like the most genuinely decent young person in Hollywood right now, maybe the most genuinely decent person of any age.
Totally agree. Each time I see him interviewed (or read transcipts) he comes across as just a normal decent bloke. Excited to be in it, with a natural and dry sense of humour. Its these kind of qualities that will resonate as any of the character possiblities (younger Indy, Son of Indy, random sidekick). Aren't these traits we all appreciate in Ford that come through to and add to the character already?
Personally, I still hope he's playing Indy circa the 1920's. But if he is to be the son, then why does he need to be Ford-like in terms of bulk and adventure?
Henry Sr was professorial, unadventurous and totally unromantic.
Indy shares the unromantic side (moves from gal to gal i mean) but has a hands on approach to archeology etc.
So Junior Junior, if we must have one, should I think be totally different still. A nerd, loner, maybe even with a poetic soul. Laboeuff could play this easy. Better than having a like-father-like-son affair. Its what gave the biggest payoff in LC after all. Of course, in the end, Junior Junior will come good, find his Courage and blah blah blah.
A father-daughter dynamic would have been so much more interesting.
A father-daughter dynamic would have been so much more interesting.
Right on!! I really hope that Shia ia playing a younger Indy, we have already had a father-son duo in an Indy film. In the same token they have already had a younger Indy. Funny both of these dinamics were in the same movie, LC. So what is Old Georgy Boy thinking??
A father-daughter dynamic would have been so much more interesting.
True...
And if I remember correctly, Indy even had a daughter in the bookend scenes of Young Indy, didn't he? (Of course those got deleted, so they don't really count anymore)
Anyway, I'm still hoping that Shia plays a young Indy...
It could be really tricky to let Indy have a son... We've seen that so many times...
It could turn out 'end of McGyver-ish' really fast!
1 in a billion that he plays young indiana. he said himself that he is a sidekick type character. what more do you need. indy's son, that's the new character arc for indy, gettin to know the son he never knew he had.
