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Father, son, Holy ghost?
This rumor has been sort of fluttering around the Net like a wounded butterfly since before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released last summer. Lucas had been hinting about it:"If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one..." And now it seems that Harrison Ford has also hopped on board admitting to the LA Times that a new film is in "Think Mode" and saying about a possible 5th sequel "It's automatic, really, we did well with the last one and with that having done well and been a positive experience, it's not surprising that some people want to do it again." Nobody has heard from Steve Spielberg just yet. So what does any of this mean?
It means both Lucas and Ford know that the last film failed, maybe not financially, but it failed to compliment the franchise in any way. Before the film was released I think everybody was worried that an "old" Indiana Jones movie would be watered-down, limp-wristed, and 10 years overdo. The tragedy is that that is exactly what the film turned out to be. Maybe I feel so strongly about it because I was the guy sitting out in front of the Seattle Cinerama for seven hours, (because Raiders of the Lost Ark is my very favorite movie of all time...) missing game 1 of the Lakers/Spurs series, and feeling pretty good about being a movie fan, not knowing that the movie I was about to see would let me down in almost every conceivable detail.
Better throw in a SPOILER WARNING! right here for those that didn't witness Jones 4...
I didn't hate LeBeouf, I didn't even mind the nuclear-bomb-refrigerator-escape-prairie-dog-square-dance sequence. I thought Harrison still has "it". And while I'm at it I didn't even really mind the "UFO" stuff either. But there was so much more wrong with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that those things I mentioned were just minor grievances, (to see what I originally wrote about Crystal Skull follow this link to my previous writing gig, the Premiere Magazine message boards where I went by the name Rockatanski...) I can defend Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, ( a future installment of my Defending columns...) I can't in all good conscience defend Crystal Skull. So when I hear that we might be getting a new Jones flick I'm wondering if the film-trinity of Spielberg/Lucas/Ford want to make-up for a flimsy fourth movie, or plan to sink the franchise altogether in the bog of eternal stench. From where I'm sitting there doesn't seem to be much hope in saving this series. Or at least capturing what was great about it 20+ years before. I guess I'm going to leave this up to you guys. Do you want to see another of this generation's Dr. Jones on the big screen again?
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