Disney acquires rights to Indiana Jones

[The Terminator]

I've been seeing disdainful posts about Disney/Indy, but I'm not seeing where they "Disney-fied" and therefore ruined a property. On the Nerdist podcast, Avengers producer Kevin Feige said that Disney has been great about letting productions do their thing. Being owned by Disney certainly hasn't hurt Marvel's output.

And to further support that claim: Disney CFO: ?Star Wars? Will Follow Marvel Strategy

Crystal Skull got Disney-fied without Disney being involved

I think that for a more modern Indy to work, esp. if it's present day, the writers would have to come up with too many lame reasons and excuses for why Indy wouldn't be using all of the high tech gadgets available to him because I think that the use of present day high tech gadgets would ruin the Indy feel.

Yeah not too many people would pay to go see Indy sitting infront of a computer screen for two hours surfing the net, because who need to go out into the field when everything is online already :lol

 

[batguy]

Modern Hollywood doesn't give much of a ***** about these timeframe issues.

Every day in Hollywood you see characters running from the cops in epic car chases. But it's not 1976, it doesn't work like that anymore in real life. In 2013 all the cops do is put a chopper over the running car and follow it until it either hits gridlocked traffic or the driver gets impatient and foot-bails.

In the years since "Indy" was established, that kind of show has become its own fantasy genre. The elaborate ancient temples & buildings, the impossibly amazing booby traps (which have no apparent power source to move those multi-ton stone shapes, and still work perfectly after sitting idle for 2000+ years), the supernatural forces they uncork and have to deal with, etc.

Everyone from "Indy", to "The Mummy", to "Lara Croft", to "Duck Tales" . . . they all play in that sandbox. Hollywood won't give a crap about what's plausible historically, they'll just go on merrily showing that world functioning in any decade. Including this one.

 

[tk5378]

I might get tar and feathered for saying it, but I think it would be awesome to see a series of animated (traditional or cg) of Indy adventures, having Ford provide the voice. Think of all the adventures he could have in a season?

 

[Cookiee Monsta]

I might get tar and feathered for saying it, but I think it would be awesome to see a series of animated (traditional or cg) of Indy adventures, having Ford provide the voice. Think of all the adventures he could have in a season?

Don't need Ford if they go the animated route. Plenty of guys out there that can do a bang on impression of Harrison.

 

[seelsa73]

Don't need Ford if they go the animated route. Plenty of guys out there that can do a bang on impression of Harrison.

Not to mention Harrison Ford would never do a tv series, especially if it's just his voice.

 

[MFP 2020]

I watched "The Purge" last night, and for the merest fraction of a second, I thought Ethan Hawke might be able to pull it off. He still seems kinda frail, though.

 

[teragon]

I'm not especially fond of seeing new Indiana Jones movie coming, the trilogy was just fine as it is, but about all this modern day Indiana talk I must say it may be less boring than what you guys think : just look at the Uncharted PS3 games from Naughty Dog, it's basically Indiana Jones without a hat and a whip. Speaking of whip, archeologists did not commonly carry whip in the 40's I guess, so I don't see why it would be more absurd today than in the forties.

Although I kinda like Probe Droid's idea, nice way of keeping a believable Ford in the mix !

 

[shaderun97]

What do you guys think about Disney taking the Star Wars route before SW7 was in the works- novels, milking anniversary editions til the cows come home, special edition memorabilia? I, for one, would love to see something else in the vein of The Lost Journal of IJ, or the IJ Handbook. Opinions?

 

[joshvanrad]

Indiana Jones died when he climbed into a fridge to try and survive a nuclear explosion. Whoever put on the fedora after that is just an imposter. Indy is dead.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I say, keep Indy in the 1930's. Get a new guy the play to the role and don't even try to "Make it real" with a Ford cameo. I think of Bond who gets replaced frequently. I have never sat down and said......Only Connery can be Bond! Just make a good Indy movie without Russian bad guys and I'll be happy to go see it.

 

[fifthchamber]

I'm still all in for them building a game series using Harrison Ford and the original "team" (Williams on music of course) and making it follow something closer to what we got with the recent "Tomb Raider" game.....Indiana Jones could be placed at any point in his career, on any particular adventure, and with the current game systems, something like that could be so damned good it would easily carry the franchise through the next 20 years or so....All you'd need is the vocal talent, and having the crew in on the game would push it higher for us fans too....They're older now, so less believable as adventure characters physically, but you put them in say, 3-4 GREAT games? I mean games that go higher and longer than either "Tomb Raider" or "Uncharted"? You have a WORLD CLASS series being done PROPERLY right there......

No need for any more movies....Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones, and if he's not there, it'll always be less a film than it could have been...

Don't do that, make a game WORTHY of the name Indiana Jones.....Do it right, and you have a renewed franchise, and a good enough lifespan to keep it going for as long as you can imagine new adventures to throw Indy into....

That's the best way to proceed....I think.

 

[Vivek]

Disney Still Planning New Indiana Jones Movies

Disney's Bob Iger: "We'd love to make another Indiana Jones movie but we're pacing ourselves right now," launching Star Wars first.

 

[Solo4114]

Ugh. Really? No thanks. It's not gonna be Ford anymore, which means, what, we're into a YIJC situation? I enjoyed YIJC for what it was, but to be honest, I don't want to see Ford in the role anymore, which means I don't want to see future films. The only time period I'd want to see Indy involved in is WWII at this point, working with the OSS or somesuch. Otherwise...just leave it.

 

[Jeyl]

Ugh. Really? No thanks. It's not gonna be Ford anymore, which means, what, we're into a YIJC situation? I enjoyed YIJC for what it was, but to be honest, I don't want to see Ford in the role anymore, which means I don't want to see future films. The only time period I'd want to see Indy involved in is WWII at this point, working with the OSS or somesuch. Otherwise...just leave it.

We'll always have Mutt…...

 

[Curmudgeon]

I wish they wouldn't make anymore. I don't want to see an Indiana Jones movie with the pacing of Avengers, which is what I feel like Disney would end up doing.

 

[Solo4114]

We'll always have Mutt…...

 

[Paul Andrew]

Man I dunno. That last one did not inspire confidence. Also, some things are best left awesome. Let's not bone it up.

 

[Goonie]

If George is out of the picture, could be better. But who could fill Spielberg's shoes?

 

[Wes R]

Maybe if it was 10 years ago and they had Ford and Connery in it but Ford's getting too old for it. Even if it was amazingly made there's just a time to retire. Nobody would dare make another with with shia lasuck.

 

[Goonie]

Maybe if it was 10 years ago and they had Ford and Connery in it but Ford's getting too old for it. Even if it was amazingly made there's just a time to retire. Nobody would dare make another with with shia lasuck.

I chatted with Sean Patrick Flanery at our comic expo last year, and you know what? I think he could reprise the role and easily make the switch from the small screen Young Indy to the big screen Indy. For a guy that's pushing 50, he's in great shape.