If they reboot INDIANA JONES, who would you pick to play Indy?

Original title is "Raiders of the Lost Ark" The opening credits say so. The "Indiana Jones and the..." was added later to posters and media covers for continuity reasons.
 
Pookie said:
With Disney taking the helm with the Indy franchise and the possibility of a reboot,
who do you think could handle the role?
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Ha! I just came across this thread on my feed after having a discussion with you about this over dinner just last night :)
Of course a thread you create would still be going while all threads I create die within a week!

Damn you woman!!!! ;)
 
augofett said:
Original title is "Raiders of the Lost Ark" The opening credits say so. The "Indiana Jones and the..." was added later to posters and media covers for continuity reasons.
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And really made for an awkwardly long title. Wish they had just left it alone.
 
I personally would like to see them use ODESSA Nazis as the bad guys. Perfect way to still use Nazis but in a postwar environment. I think that would've been a far better idea than using the Soviets in KOTCS. The fact it primarily took place in South America would've made it all the more logical.
 
I know it's inevitable that they will likely reboot the Indiana Jones franchise, but if all they are going to do is just cast a new lead and have him fight Nazi's I'm not likely going to be as interested. Why can't they think of a more dynamic enemy? They used the Nazis twice already. I'd be more keen on seeing Ford take the Sean Connery role to a new adventurer or have Ford pass the fedora to someone new so that they don't necessarily have to revamp the character entirely. I'm also not so sure about a stand alone Han Solo movie for that matter either. I don't need to know EVERY character's backstory. Ford just owns those roles to me because he so inhabited them.

Idk.
 
dascoyne said:
Use the Michael Douglas Ant-Man CG to de-age him
... why not?
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Not a bad idea but it would be too expensive and time consuming to do for a lead actor. It's one thing for someone who only has a small handful of scenes and is never on screen for that long during those scenes but for someone who's going to on screen the majority of the film, that would be quite the undertaking to say the least. Give it another 10 - 20 years and they'll probably be able to do it, just not right now.
 
Maybe write a few scripts and have Harrison lay down recorded dialogue. We all have seen Beowulf and see how they can animate a whole movie in a realistic fashion. I think films like that have their issues, but imagine in the future just how much better they will be. Maybe line up 10 scripts with all the dialogue finished and then well after Ford is gone, they can still have new films coming out with Indy still in his prime.
 
If you're going for a "What would happen if Indy DID look at the Ark of the Covevant as it was being opened?" thing, sure. :)
 
As for CGI de-aging -

Whenever a CGI'd young Arnold Schwarzenegger appears in the recent Terminator flicks, notice how he keeps getting his face damaged within a matter of seconds. Every shot with a photo-realistic human face costs a fortune.
 
batguy said:
As for CGI de-aging -

Whenever a CGI'd young Arnold Schwarzenegger appears in the recent Terminator flicks, notice how he keeps getting his face damaged within a matter of seconds. Every shot with a photo-realistic human face costs a fortune.
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In 2015. But computers are getting better and better. I'm pretty sure, one day there will be a revival of all the old (and dead) movie stars on the big screen. In new movies of course. :)
 
So, here's a separate thought, as I ponder whether Han Solo (or any of the other OT heroes, for that matter) will be killed in the new Star Wars movie.

When you're doing a story that is about a hero, especially one like the Indy films, I don't actually want to watch my heroes get old and decrepit and/or die. I want to see them ride off into the sunset, still relatively youthful, and that's how I'll remember them.

There's this impulse, this drive in Hollywood now to NEVER EVER LET THE STORY END. Fundamentally, I think this really, really hurts good storytelling. Think about it. When you tell a child a bedtime story and say "The end," and the kid says "And then what happened?" first, you don't want to answer because your kid is probably just trying to buy time before you turn off the lights. But, second, the answer is, eventually, "Nothing. They died. Go to sleep."

Now, think about this. Do you really want that to be the answer to "and then what happened" for your heroes? I don't. Unless it's some noble sacrifice or grand standoff or whathaveyou, I don't want my heroes to wither and die. But continuing to put Ford into this action-punchy-shooty-tough-guy role...it's just not what I want to see at all. On the other hand, I don't really want to see anyone else playing Henry Jones, Jr. aside from Ford. Not at this point. YIJC is fine for what it is, but I don't want that for my Indy films. I never even wanted KOTCS, really, and although I own a copy of it, I've literally never used the disc as anything other than a coaster. The Indy trilogy ends perfectly. Hollywood's desire to provide an answer to "And then what happened?" shouldn't be applied to all franchises.

It works great for superheroes, because superheroes live in a kind of unreality the way James Bond does (although, side note, I'd LOVE to watch James Bond die only to be succeeded by...James Bond, a la the "It's a code name" theory.). But Indy's always been a little different in that respect. By having one guy play one role for over 30 years, they're basically locked into Ford = Indy. And Ford = +70, which does not make for a compelling, believable action hero no matter how tough he is.


It's time to let this franchise go, folks, or do the "hand-off" film if you absolutely MUST make more.
 
I totally agree. Unfortunately the almighty dollar gets in the way of good taste. As you say, the Indy trilogy ended perfectly with them all riding off into the sunset. As much as I wanted more, it was the perfect bookend. I'm not keen on Indy ever being recast and wish it could pass gracefully into film history like so many other good stories have.
 
Wolfsburg said:
I totally agree. Unfortunately the almighty dollar gets in the way of good taste. As you say, the Indy trilogy ended perfectly with them all riding off into the sunset. As much as I wanted more, it was the perfect bookend. I'm not keen on Indy ever being recast and wish it could pass gracefully into film history like so many other good stories have.
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I suppose it's nothing new, really, when I think about it. I mean, Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes die at Reichenbach Falls...and then brought him back due to fan pressure and probably the fact that he had bills to pay.
 
I was just discussing this topic with "pookie" tonight while celebrating the New Year. It has been a couple years since she started this thread and we were just drinking a few and throwing around ideas. Then the discussion turned to Jock Lindsey, Indy's pilot. We thought that it could be cool to carry on the feel of the Indy films, but following Jock's life and adventures. A young Indy could make appearances, but by focusing on a new character we could almost start a new franchise from scratch but still have that familiar Indy feel. Maybe even get Chris Pratt to play Jock.
 
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