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They need to bring back Short Round!
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Yeahhhh....2020, huh?
I wasn't happy at all with the fourth movie. And Harrison Ford was pretty long in the tooth. Can't imagine how he'll do in another 3 years from now.
As for the score to the Crystal Skull, I wasn't impressed at all. Maybe I need to listen to it.....for a second time.
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My take: although they publically stated again and again that Ford will be the only Indiana Jones ever this release date delay indicates that Disney has decided to re-boot without Ford.
And I believe that would be the right decision.
I love Ford. I love him as Indiana Jones. But how can he be that Indiana Jones who withstood the most difficult physical endurance tests when he is approaching 80 years?
C´mon, even the seemingly indestructible Ford will not be able to perform that way again. So an Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford in 2019 (with the release date one year later) would stand on the sideles mostly - and they would get him a young sidekick (not LaBeauf but someone else)... and that I would find very disappointing.
What I want to see is Indiana Jones in his prime. And yes, it started as a Bond-like series, now it should be allowed to go that way and re-cast, setting his adventures in the 30´s/40´s where they can be the most effective.
As for John Williams - yes, I hope that he could score that film and many more to come. But again, be reasonable. It would already be fantastic to have him score the ninth Star Wars film as well. But old age will catch up with him and force him to work less or not at all.
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Apr 26, 2017 - 12:28 PM
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Tom Servo
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My take: although they publically stated again and again that Ford will be the only Indiana Jones ever this release date delay indicates that Disney has decided to re-boot without Ford.
And I believe that would be the right decision.
I love Ford. I love him as Indiana Jones. But how can he be that Indiana Jones who withstood the most difficult physical endurance tests when he is approaching 80 years?
C´mon, even the seemingly indestructible Ford will not be able to perform that way again. So an Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford in 2019 (with the release date one year later) would stand on the sideles mostly - and they would get him a young sidekick (not LaBeauf but someone else)... and that I would find very disappointing.
What I want to see is Indiana Jones in his prime. And yes, it started as a Bond-like series, now it should be allowed to go that way and re-cast, setting his adventures in the 30´s/40´s where they can be the most effective.
As for John Williams - yes, I hope that he could score that film and many more to come. But again, be reasonable. It would already be fantastic to have him score the ninth Star Wars film as well. But old age will catch up with him and force him to work less or not at all.
I still think that the main difference between Indy and Bond regarding recasting is that Indy began life as a cinematic character, played by one actor and every audience member was introduced to him as such. Bond being a literary character means that his initial introduction was in print and thus uniquely created in the mind's eye of each respective reader. In casting Bond, you will of course never match up to every single reader's imagined version, but all you need to do is hew close enough to how the character is described in print. With Indy, everyone knows him as Harrison Ford. Any recasting would basically require another actor to mimic Ford.
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Harrison Ford will be 77 in 2019 (when they will likely be filming if they're going for a summer 2020 release). Unless Indy is a supporting character who calls the shots from his rocker on the porch while some other whippersnapper runs around snatching fedoras out of closing doorways and clinging to the sides of trucks—in which case, what's the point?—action will be required. Now, people can still go running and be in relatively good shape at the age of 77, but let's face it, they look creaky with age. That's just a plain cold fact of life. It happens to everyone. It'll happen to me. I have no idea how they are going to put a 77 year-old Harrison Ford into Indy-style action sequences. I don't know that I want to find out. But it's going to happen, that much is certain.
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Apr 27, 2017 - 2:08 AM
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Thor
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I can perfectly well understand the point about Ford -- fit for his age as he may be -- not being able to do the 'stunts' of an INDY movie the way he did in the past, even with CGI help or other things. But who says an INDY movie has to be written like that? He can have more of a mentor role, or the film could be more focussed on other aspects or have other angles than the previous movies.
Just look at things like the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA reboot or STARGATE: ATLANTIS or, heck, even ROGUE ONE. They're all part of the same universe, but the approach is vastly different from preceding films and shows. More down-to-earth, less 'gung ho', more serious, perhaps. But still works like gangbusters. I don't see why an Indiana Jones film can't be made the same way. In the YOUNG INDY series -- despite the actor's young age -- a lot of the episodes dealt with exciting character dramas and interactions, and less on the action. And it worked! Including the bookend bits with the 90-year-old-something Indiana Jones kicking off and finishing the 'flashback' stories.
There are two common phenomena I see at play here; one is the 'ageism' that is very prevalent in our society. For some reason, many think you're automatically washed up once you pass 60. Whereas the truth is, many artists have delivered their best work in their 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s. Second is a form of 'xenophobia', i.e. fear for an approach that might be strange or different than what one is accustomed to. If one is truly a fan of the Indiana Jones universe, one should also be open to other forms of exploration of it, IMO, and not only the same recipe regurgitated time and time again.
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