Two years ago, Shia LaBeof said Steven Spielberg had just “cracked the story” on a fifth Indiana Jones movie and was “gearing that up”. Because 2008′s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was such a great movie, of course. So great I had to Google it to remember the stupid title. We hoped this sequel plan would be chased off a cliff by a monkey army and/or put into a fridge at a nuclear test site (because, despite what they would have you believe, you don’t survive nuking the fridge).
It seems the sequel may have been scrapped when George Lucas retired for really real this time you guys. Producer Frank Marshall (Indiana Jones, The Goonies, Back to the Future) spoke to Collider about the future of Indiana Jones. It should be noted his wife, Kathleen Kennedy, runs Lucasfilm now that Lucas has stepped down.
“I say, for me, [Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is] the last hurrah. I know that yes, we talk about it, but there’s no idea, there’s no MacGuffin… Yeah, no [George Lucas] isn’t [hungry to do another Indiana Jones]. And he’s obviously passing the baton to my wife, so.” [Collider via Blastr]
Our long national nightmare is finally over. Indy 5 has gone to “the space between the spaces” or whatever stupid woo they were talking about at the end of Crystal Skull.
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I wish they’d do a Clone Wars-style animated series with Indy. They could skip around his time line and do all sorts of stories. It would be really awesome. But…probably won’t happen.
Sigh.
Not Clone Wars style, god no. Indy in full CG?
However, Tron: Uprising style? Hell to the yay-yo.
you know it amazes me that people keep bringing up the refrigerator thing.
everyone realizes that in the first movie he basically proved the existence of God right?
in the second movie he jumped out of an airplane and used a inflatable raft as a para shoot, oh and a guy pulled hearts out of other peoples chests
in the third movie, he once again basically proved the existence of God.
if you ask me, the most believable thing in the indi movies was the fridge scene.
What if scenario; Indy can’t die. God won’t let him. He has to round up and destroy every last religious object left in the word and destroy them before he can finally rest. Sort of like the last Templar in Last Crusade.
Shia can die, or be dead, at the start. From fire. With monkeys.
Don’t forget him water skiing behind the submarine for half the length of the Mediterranean in the 1st one. And the rollercoaster mine car ride in the 2nd one.
Yeah there was nothing ridiculous in the first three. I think Shia as a biker was what broke the camel’s back. If they had somebody who looked like they were the prodigy of Indiana and Marianne less people would complain.
That’s progeny. Not prodigy.
Well, that’s a relief indeed…
Thank god, not because of Lucas, or Spielberg’s now-failing sense of what works, but because of old man Ford questing for polygrip or depends.
Indiana Jones and the Wal Mart of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Diarhea from Hell.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I was hoping for a fifth to erase the memory of the fourth. I love the character so much.
More Mista Jones!
I agree. It’s a win-win situation. If they make a movie even marginally better than Crystal Skull (which should be pretty damned easy to do) then we get a decent (maybe even GOOD?) final Indiana Jones film.
And if it’s as bad as, or worse than, Crystal Skull, so what? Crystal Skull was so fucking bad, another shitty Indiana Jones film really wouldn’t ruffle my feathers too much. The bar’s been lowered.
AND, as the bar is low, there is also not 20 years of build-up and expectations to weigh down the production. I feel like they could just have fun with it and not worry too much and just bang out a fun Indiana Jones adventure. And learn from the horrendous, borderline-war crime mistakes they made on Crystal Skull.
So yea, I’m all for another one. Why not. Who cares.
still listed on imdb.
I never bothered to see the fourth movie, everywhere I turned the response was the same. Bad.
Cool! Now George Lucas can finally get to making all those artistic, personal, experimental films he’s been talking about making for about 20 years now!
I swear, more and more George Lucas reminds me of that guy who has this GREAT idea for a script or a novel or something, and it’s all in his head, he just needs to find the time to “get it all out.” Which is another way of saying, he will NEVER make a personal, experimental film, and he’ll keep dipping into the Star Wars and Indiana Jones well until the sun blows up.
Say what you want to about Francis Ford Coppola’s work these days (that weird, reportedly abysmal Twixt shit), at least the guy is actually doing what George Lucas has been blabbing about doing for decades now.
OR they could…you know…come up with a NEW FUCKING CHARACTER ENTIRELY. They were so good at that back in their respective hey-days.
But I guess with Lawrence Kasdan passing, the singular voice of reason is gone too. Shucks.
“And he’s obviously passing the baton to my wife, so.”
Clearly, this is the real reason Lucas is passing on the fifth film. He’s too busy nailing this guy’s wife.
+1