Oh yeah! And that bit in the doc where he pulls George around like a ragdoll next to him to joke that he did it cause he owed George one and he lived nearby. Never seen older George in that mode.
Mix of both
Not the first time Mangold has made a puzzling summary of Indiana Jones. I remember he said something to the effect, and I'm paraphrasing here.. "At the end of the day, Indy just wants to stay home and read a good book."
I often wonder if George ever considered asking Harrison to appear on Young Indy again. The ideal time would have been for the tv movies on Family Channel. Obvious choice is Peacock’s Eye. But given his real life passion for planes Attack of the Hawkmen too. In my personal head cannon during WWII Indy finally got some real Pilot training.
Ford was asked to appear to see if the ratings would improve. They didn’t. Or at least not enough to keep the show going.
I used to want the Belloq episode, but considering how much Indy in the show did not seem like the "real" Indy, I'm afraid Belloq might also have been too different from the guy we knew in Raiders.
Not surprised, I'm sure they processed all of the "old" footage through their AI to upscale.
It sounds like they all used making Indy 4 as an excuse to meet for lunch. Until that AFI special, which is when they got serious about it. I wish they'd gotten on the ball earlier. A fourth Indy movie in the mid to late 90s with Connery would have been all we needed to wrap up the series.
I liked Connery in LC, but I'm not sure I would have wanted him back in another film. The father/son arc was resolved in LC, and bringing him back would have just been a way to throw in more of the same humor, except that the humor wouldn't really work as well since they supposedly found a new level of respect for each other after LC. What made it funny in LC was how they were always at odds with each other.
This actually makes me wonder what Sr. in KOTCS would have been like. Connery was asked to return but I can't imagine if that would have been Stanforth's scenes or something else.
I doubt it. Nobody was upset about Sallah or Marcus not being in Temple of Doom, nor Short Round not being in Last Crusade.
I think Stanforth was always in the script as Brody's stand-in for the university scene, and it was the scene at Indy's house where he substituted for the would-be Henry Sr. cameo. We don't have the earlier version of Koepp's script that would let us know how it played out exactly, but I bet it was pretty close and just a matter of delivering the same thematic notes from a different character's mouth.
I have seen some comments that the 4th and 5th movies feel like need or unneeded, depending on opinions, extras unconnected to the classic trilogy. Which I find ironic because for many years a lot of fans felt that way about Temple of Doom. Some still do!
