This is why Chris Columbus never got to write Indy IV

rodekill · Wed 04/02/2004 15:58:52

River Phoenix was amazing as young Indy. He nailed the character.
Too bad the guy in the tv show was terrible.

I suppose it would be interesting to move the series on with a new actor, like in the Bond series, but man, would it ever be hard to accept someone else in the role...

Trapezoid · Wed 04/02/2004 16:25:48

Quote from: rodekill on Wed 04/02/2004 15:58:52
River Phoenix was amazing as young Indy. He nailed the character.

hmm... KINKY.

Meowster · Thu 05/02/2004 06:50:36

I must have missed the entire beginning of the film. Whoops, blink and you miss it, I guess. Or you know, miss the beginning of the film and you miss it.

Isegrim · Thu 05/02/2004 17:24:02

I just stumbled over that post and, hey, it's too early for April fools' jokes, isn't it? That script can't be serious... (Or... can it in fact? Well, since Star Wars episodes 1 and 2 I lost my faith in George Lucas' films anyway)

DGMacphee · Thu 05/02/2004 17:33:14

Yes it is serious -- it was going to be Indy III.

But it was written in the mid-80s by the guy who made the Home Alone films.

All it needed was Molly Ringwald as Indy's chick and the cheese-factor would have been off the scale.

Meowster · Thu 05/02/2004 19:08:48

The fact it was written in the mid 80s explains soooo much.

Who's Molly Ringwald?

LordHart · Thu 05/02/2004 21:15:20

Shes the redheaded chick from Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles... you know, one the few members of the Brat Pack who went downhill at the end of the 80's...

...what am I saying, they all did!

Las Naranjas · Thu 05/02/2004 23:24:47

It beats me why the kept on Harrison when Corey Feldman was crying out for the roll.

DGMacphee · Fri 06/02/2004 01:59:12

And Judd Nelson was perfect for Marcus Brody.

Emilio Estevez could have played Beloque.

See, I don't understand why they didn't let John Hughes produce the Indy movies instead of Lucas!

Esseb · Fri 06/02/2004 02:03:45

We all know Tom Selleck is the best Indy and Danny DeVito the best Sallah.

Bluke4x4 · Sun 08/02/2004 16:54:01

Eric Bana could make a pretty good Indy, if he had more than one facial expression.

And Chris's spelling! You know he's "troobled" when he can't get the "soond" of the word right! And was it a cliche when the knights klinked together and the sound of heavy metal (music?)? Who knows.

DGMacphee · Mon 09/02/2004 05:58:30

Bad news on the new Indy Script (from IMDB):

'Indy 4' Faces Script Delay

Legendary film-maker George Lucas is delaying the filming of the long- awaited Indiana Jones 4 - because he's unhappy with the script. The Star Wars director, who's acting as executive producer alongside director Steven Spielberg, is allegedly dissatisfied with the screenplay handed in by Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont. And it now seems the sequel's projected 2005 release date is unlikely to be met, with shooting on the Harrison Ford-starring movie now likely to start next year instead.

Meowster · Mon 09/02/2004 07:30:07

Apparently, in the new movie.... rumour would have it he has a brother. Apparently that's part of the reason George wanted the script 'polished' again. Hmm.

If that's true... what would you all make of a Brother for Indy? I don't think I'd like it, if it involved being a long lost brother or something... and probably they'd incorporate lots of wholesome family bickering in it, basically recycling a lot of Last Crusade...

They never mentioned a brother in any of the Young Indy series, or any of the movies. Hm.

See, another reason I suspect they would give him a brother is because Harrison Ford is kinda old, so the attraction of the movie to the younger female population would be diluted. By adding a 'hot young star' such as Ben Affleck they'd be increasing the movie's pulling power immensely.

And I don't like Ben Affleck.

MrColossal · Mon 09/02/2004 07:34:55

i highly highly highly doubt anyone writting the script for indy 4 cares at all about the Young Indiana Jones series.

they probably care more about the Indy games than the tv series

Meowster · Mon 09/02/2004 07:42:02

George Lucas specifically told writers for the Indy Series not to involve certain parts of Indys history, in case they ever decided to incorporate those areas into a movie.

Las Naranjas · Mon 09/02/2004 07:54:40

"Certain parts" may not mean anything not already included in the first 3 films [including the prologue to Crusade].

And I apologise for the lack of italics.