(H/T: @baseballcrank) Dear sweet merciful Jeebus no.
Shia Says Spielberg Has “Cracked” Indy 5
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In the UK to promote Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, LaBeouf talked to the BBC and revealed that he had spoken recently with Spielberg about another Indiana Jones movie: “Steven just said he cracked a story on it before I left. I think they’re gearing that up.”
Now, I admit freely that both my wife and I enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull… well enough. We had low expectations – “Do not do to this franchise what Lucas did to Star Wars
” (i.e., murder it and prop up the corpse on the front porch) – and Lucas managed to exceed them, more or less. There were aliens. Commies were punched. They brought back Marion. LaBeouf’s character didn’t even offend me. I did not declare kanly against Lucas. Everything was… acceptable.
So that’s where it should end. Before Lucas drags down Spielberg with him.
Moe Lane
I agree, its time for Indiana Jones to call it a wrap. But the end of Crystal Skull was clearly a set up for a whole new set of movies starring Shia LaBouf as Indy Jr.
Producers spending 10s of millions dont want to risk it on a new idea, they want a sure thing.
That would not be… so bad. But you’d need a director who loved the B-movies of the Fifties.
I also like Shia LaBouf. He’s proven himself as an action star and come a long way since Even Stevens. I would like to see an Indy film that hands him the title role.
I was very worried about him in the spot, but I think that he did a credible job with what he was given. I’d like to believe that at some point before shooting started he stopped to think, I am in an Indiana Jones movie. This, specifically, was one of my childhood dreams. I must take this seriously.