He said he enjoyed working on transformers so much and the new indy with lebouf he would love to do it.
that does not mean it is set in stone but it is a direct possibility.
I think the new Indy is going to have to be as least as good as last crusade to get my thumbs up approval. lets face it nothing can ever touch raiders. it is the perfect action movie for that time, and every director who tried to copy its success failed even spielberg.
The Tv and Theatrical trailers look very good and harrison looks in top form, so this movie by all accounts should rock the socks off of indiana jones fans.
still the trailers for phantom menace were good as well and the final movie was a letdown.
I am going to an advance screening of indy 4 in boston on the 19th, i hope it is good. i'll give it a very harsh review online if it sucks.
the prequels did not have to be so lukewarm, no pun intended.
If the scripts and dialogue had been given additional work by an actual talented screenwriter, and the movies cut back on the cgi and had tighter editing.
i mean the themes are not to be completely disparaged only the means in which they were conveyed.
the new star wars trilogy more fits a greek tradgedy than it does a campbellian heroes journey. It is a lot like Oedipus Rex and Milton's Paradise Lost and Faust, except delivered with comic book visuals, eye candy and inane dialogue. It is almost like a childish version of the myths he was trying to follow.
In fact revenge of the sith is exactly like oedipus trying to avert his fate and causes it to happen, as anakin kills padme by trying to deny fate.
Star wars from the begining was dumbed down sugar coated and made more childish for the masses to get a bigger audience.
The original 300 page script had sex, violence and political activism as well as the flash gordon and burroughs and kurosawa elements.
As for Indiana Jones IV i thought speilberg and lucas initially said it was going to be low budget and shot like the old ones on location.
a 170 million dollar movie, is that the price of 19 years of inflation or is that the cost of the cgi. Spielberg, Lucas, and Ford don't even make a dime until it grosses over 400 million dollars so paramount can recover its costs.
Lucas original quote on special effects is genius " a special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. people tend to confuse them as an end to themselves. a special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing" - from star wars to jedi the making of a saga
are the prequels a special effect without a story? or our we oot fans so jaded we would not even notice one if it was there.
i think the fans would give the prequels and the special editions their own place in the star wars family if only george did not treat the originals like crap.
Back in 1997 i went to see the special editions trilogy and embraced them as an extension of the originals not a replacement. i hated the greedo shooting first thing but could live with it since the special edition was an alternate take on the films.
Little did i know as most fans that embracing the special editions was to giving lucas the opportunity to bury the originals.
had i known that then i would have boycotted the movies and the following prequel films until a restoration got underway to be able to show the originals in cinema again or on a future dvd release.