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Which way?

Personally, I think Lucas will stick with his revisions and release his re-cut versions.
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Why did he take Old Indy out? Some kind of contract issue with Harrison?

Maybe they'll put him back in for the DVD, only this time without eyebrows.

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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
Why did he take Old Indy out? Some kind of contract issue with Harrison?

Maybe they'll put him back in for the DVD, only this time without eyebrows.


They took old Indy out because the audience reaction generally wasn't too great toward Old Indy. Many felt that Lucas needed to "get to the story," so Lucas cut old Indy out.

Strange, Lucas isn't exactly the type to cater to public outcry.
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An official statement from the book The Cinema of George Lucas.
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i hate he recut episodes, reminds me when universal cobbled old battlestar glactica episodes together, it sucked then and it sucks now
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I hate the re-cut episodes as well. I can't understand why that in this one instance on such an issue, he caters to his fans when he never has before.
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In this case, he obviously changed his mind. I'm 100% sure that it wasn't originally his "vision" to have the series edited into these 22 films. If that were the case, he would have made them that way from the beginning.
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Audience reaction? They were made for TV! Who gives a crap about TV audience reaction? If they can have a nightly show where scantily-clad women force insects down their throats to the point of regurgitation for cash, then I'd say pretty much ANYTHING goes!

I've never seen any of the Young Indy's myself. Just never caught 'em when they were aired. I've been waiting for the (inevitable) DVD release. I hear Ian McDiarmid plays a small role as Indy's uncle. And was it actually Harrison playing Old Indy? In make-up or something?

--ID

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No make up...just a beard. And it wasn't really an 'old' Indy, it was just set in the fifties or something!

I may be wrong though....I thought young Indy was quite boring anyway.

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Originally posted by: HotRod
No make up...just a beard. And it wasn't really an 'old' Indy, it was just set in the fifties or something!

I may be wrong though....I thought young Indy was quite boring anyway.


Ford had a bit on at least one episode as middle-age Indy...


http://www.indianajones.de/youngIndy/pics/ford_04.jpg

but in several episodes (I believe it was several) actor George Hall played the 93 year-old 'modern-day', eyepatch wearing Indy.

http://steveandamysly.tannerworld.com/databank/image_youngindianajones_old1.jpg

Of course you realize that by George Lucas continuity standards it means that Ford as Indy will be killed off at the end of IJ4.
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That George Hall guy looks nothing like Harrison. He looks like the grandpa from the "Werther's Original" commercial.

Now I'm kinda glad they cut it out. Maybe they'll have it as an option on the DVD. Or paste Hayden Christensen's head over his too.

--ID

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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
Or paste Hayden Christensen's head over his too.


Now way in hell.
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Yeah, you're right and this comming from a guy that wants Christensen in ROTJ and he fits perfectly in the scene. *rolls eyes*
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ROTJ and the Young Indy series are two COMPLETELY different things, though.
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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
That George Hall guy looks nothing like Harrison. He looks like the grandpa from the "Werther's Original" commercial.

Now I'm kinda glad they cut it out. Maybe they'll have it as an option on the DVD.


When turn 93 you do, hope you look the same do I!
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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
That George Hall guy looks nothing like Harrison.


I believe you mean "Harrison Ford looks nothing like that guy."
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I have seen an interview with Harrison Ford recently, and there is NO way that guy is coming back to do Indiana Jones. NO way.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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I just saw him two or three days ago on the Today Show talking to Matt Lauer and he said they're closer than they've ever been to making the fourth one, and he thinks it's really gonna happen this time. That was after some promotion for his new film Firewall, where they showed him in clips doing all his own stunts.

--ID

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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
I just saw him two or three days ago on the Today Show talking to Matt Lauer and he said they're closer than they've ever been to making the fourth one, and he thinks it's really gonna happen this time. That was after some promotion for his new film Firewall, where they showed him in clips doing all his own stunts.

--ID


I will be looking forward to it! Man, it's gonna be SO cool to see Ford back in the hat and the whip after all these years! The last appearance he made was in Young Indy, so he proved there that he can play an old Indy. People are making too big of a deal out of hating this.
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Though he looked elderly in "K-19", I'm not as concerned about Harrison as I am about the time period. The fifties? The sixties? No Nazis? And what artifact is he looking for?


--ID