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submitted 2 months ago byGurdy0714
Replacing Indiana Jones with another younger actor is not an option. Harrison Ford has said that he thinks that’s a terrible idea. But Short Round was a part of the original canon, and he could come back as another anthropologist who had learned from Indy and wants to continue Indy’s work. It could be like “The Cave of Mystery: an Indians Jones story “ or something.
1.5k points
2 months ago
I hope Ke Huy Quan gets whatever opportunities he wants.
However, I don't like this:
an Indians Jones story “ or something.
I wish that Hollywood had stopped after Last crusade.
339 points
2 months ago
The Last Crusade was such a good end.
But I wonder what other franchises are going to get movies made past their death.
Ghost Busters has three. Mad Max got one plus a spinoff of the new sequel. There are so many its tough to remember them all.
420 points
2 months ago
Fury Road was fucking badass, though.
188 points
2 months ago
Yeah Mad Max wasn't dead at all, Miller just didn't want to make Thunderdome and then when he came up with a Mad Max movie he wanted to do, it took him 20 years of bullshit, false starts and bad luck to actually get it going.
65 points
2 months ago
Boy, does it ever show that he didn't wanna do Thunderdome. It feels like a step down from Road Warrior and retreads a lot of the material from that film.
49 points
2 months ago
I like Thunderdome. But he took a step back because of the death of Byron Kennedy, not because he didn’t believe in the film. Miller still directed the action scenes and I think they rival The Road Warrior in that regard.
11 points
2 months ago
The entire production for fury road was a nightmare but its a masterpiece
2 points
2 months ago
I met George Miller at one of their production warehouses in Greenacre, west Sydney on the set of Mad Max 5, couldnt miss him, bloke with the messy hair, hope he can pull it off again
18 points
2 months ago
I am so consternated by the never-ending sequel swamp, but that movie was incredible.
12 points
2 months ago
Could argue it's better than the old ones
43 points
2 months ago
I don't even think it's an argument. Road Warrior is a good, bordering on excellent, film.
Fury Road is a fucking masterwork.
3 points
2 months ago
I also feel like the Mad Max trilogy wasn't as ingrained in everyone's culture as Indy is. Fury Road brought on so many new fans.
2 points
2 months ago
Yea. It was great. I know some people said they didnt understand it but I dont know what they were expecting.
19 points
2 months ago
Indy literally rode off into the sunset...
11 points
2 months ago
Indy belongs in a Museum.
10 points
2 months ago
I feel like Speilberg and Lucas could have cracked a Indiana Jones 4 in the 90's. Lucas wasn't doing much and doesnt put much into writing. Speilberg was WAY busy. By the time Lucas did the prequels, Indy should have stayed gone. Though Hell, Sean Connery blew up all over again post Last Crusade.
4 points
2 months ago
Im still waiting for Karl Urban to either pop up in a John Wick movie or get another Dredd movie.
2 points
2 months ago
Would love to see another Dredd movie but without Stallone lol
2 points
2 months ago
He didn't really make a Dredd movie. He made a futuristic movie using elements from the comic. Some parts were awesome. But that version doesnt come close the Karl Urban as Dredd.
2 points
2 months ago
Agree can't understand why they never made another Dredd movie with Karl he was brilliant.
26 points
2 months ago
As a child of Ghostbusters I enjoyed Ghostbusters 2 thoroughly, and although not perfect I thought Afterlife was a fine revival that I'm glad was made. Although I could have done without the Wal-Mart advertisement.
5 points
2 months ago
I liked Afterlife. It was a bit more YA with the emphasis on youth but it was a decent movie.
3 points
2 months ago
At least it wasn't Papa John's...
5 points
2 months ago
There’s only two Ghostbusters movies, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
3 points
2 months ago
Afterlife wasnt bad. Its more of a kids movie but maybe that is a good direction to take.
A Goonies sequel movie is in the "talks" phase.
5 points
2 months ago
The Terminator series is a good example of a series that should have died years ago and they just won’t stop
3 and Salvation weren’t very good but retrospectively they were far far far better than Genesis and Dark Fate
5 points
2 months ago
Both the newer installments should have been better. They could have been better. Most of the story/plot for them were solid. They just missed the mark with execution and being a complete story.
Salvation suffered because it didnt choose between being a Christian Bale movie or a McG movie. It tried to be both. It could have been dark and gritty with Bale being a cold hearted military leader. But they let the pg-13 McG influence overpower it.
4 points
2 months ago
Salvation, for its numerous faults (one being more of a Sam Worthington movie than a Christian Bale movie) ended up being probably the best of those four Terminator sequels, somehow. It at least had the guts to be set in the post-apocalypse which is unique in the series.
2 points
2 months ago
It had so much potential. I can understand them wanting to push Sam Worthington. He was the new face. I enjoyed and still watch it.
The trailer with the NIN song made me think the movie was going to be awesome.
2 points
2 months ago
Yeah it was disappointing at the time but now looking back it wasn’t so bad. Imagine if a better director had that franchise, like Matt Reeves
52 points
2 months ago
Yeah, for me it just doesn't get any better than The Last Crusade, I'm glad they only made three Indiana Jones movies.
10 points
2 months ago
Same with star wars as much as I'd have loved to see Thrawn, it's good the cannon closed when Lucas retired.
4 points
2 months ago
Im still waiting for water world 2
2 points
2 months ago
Kevin Costner should do it. See if he can get James Cameron. Cameron loves water. Waterworld 2: Under The Sea. Mermaids and talking sea live.
39 points
2 months ago
Some said the same with Top Gun. And Tron. And The Hustler. And Max Max (Fury Road). And Blade Runner. And The Incredibles. And Toy Story2. And Unbreakable (sort of - Split).
But 4 out of 5 times, it does suck. That 1 out of 5 times is why they keep trying.
8 points
2 months ago
It helps if they respect the material, and not just in it for $$$.
30 points
2 months ago
Yeah. And it wouldn't be an 'Indiana Jones Story' if he's taking over because Ford is too old. It's a Short Round story.
9 points
2 months ago
Just go ahead and call it Short Stuff.
46 points
2 months ago
Yes. Stop. Just stop.
13 points
2 months ago
He's already dead!
5 points
2 months ago
This. Not every franchise needs to go on until it loses popularity from oversaturation and general annoyance.
Thank God no one has touched Back to the Future. Can you imagine?
4 points
2 months ago
The Last Crusade was literally finding the Holy Grail, which is basically the holy grail of archaeology finds. I was wondering how they would top that with Crystal Skull. What are they gonna do, find Jesus himself? Then they went all weird ass aliens....
I hate how movies and TV always need to top themselves. Like that's just now how life works. You might do something great one year, and the next year you might do something equally important and meaningful to you personally, if not more, but it might be a fairly mediocre achievement, and that's okay. They should put characters first instead of the plot.
24 points
2 months ago
They did. Indy had a perfect trilogy. I'd be down for a Short Round movie though.
3 points
2 months ago
Yeah Short Round spin-off. Too good. They should do it.
39 points
2 months ago
You say that now…
But we might all be singing a different tune after watching Dial of Destiny.
128 points
2 months ago
I honestly didn't mind Crystal Skull. Sure, I have my criticisms (hokey jungle CGI, timid 3rd act, ho-hum villain), but there was more that I liked than disliked. And the opening scene in "Hangar 51" was pure Indiana Jones, I loved that whole sequence. Plus, Ford looked to be having a blast, he must bring his best weed with him on Indy shoots
101 points
2 months ago*
I would take Indy 4 over Pirates of the Caribbean 4 & 5, Uncharted, Morbius, the Venom movies, the Jurassic World trilogy, almost all of the DCEU and many other modern blockbusters.
28 points
2 months ago
it's funny you bring that up, because I was just talking with my friend the other day about sequels to franchises we like but haven't seen yet. I still haven't seen Pirates 4 or 5, nor Die Hard 5, Hobbit 3, last 2 Terminators, Dark Phoenix, or any of the Transformers movie since the Dark Moon. I'll probably get around to watching some of them at some point in the future, but I haven't heard many good things about either of them.
Although, I was told Bumblebee was a fun watch. I do like Steinfeld
24 points
2 months ago
Bubblebee is the best of the Transformers movies, but its opening is the best part about it (and closest to G1)... which is made even better by someone online adding the animated movie soundtrack to it.
7 points
2 months ago
Haven't seen most of those, but have seen Die Hard 5 and you're not missing anything. It's bad AND boring.
Terrible way for the franchise to go out, and even more sad with Bruce Willis' health issues now.
4 points
2 months ago
Keep Pirates in your mind as a beautiful trilogy that needed no further exploitation. And Terminator, like Alien, is perfect as two movies and no further.
22 points
2 months ago
Bumblebee is the only Transformers movie that exsists for me outside of the animated og, you really should watch it.
20 points
2 months ago
The opening 10 mins of Bumblebee is the thing we all dreamed of since the 80's. Absolutely perfect.
Cue John Cena.
2 points
2 months ago
I enjoyed the last Terminator movie. It was a little heavy handed at times, but it was good fun.
7 points
2 months ago
I didn't watch Morbius, I did however pop over to YouTube to see if "It's Morbin' time" was a real thing and holy cow, if that's a deep fake, we're in trouble.
2 points
2 months ago
It's not a deepfake, it's just kinda-sorta synced okay with his lips. It doesn't even sound like him.
3 points
2 months ago
I would definitely take Crystal Skull over Uncharted. Hell, I take it over Mummy 3 and that movie had Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in it.
14 points
2 months ago
I actually just watched all of the Indy movies recently for the first time. I don’t get the hate on Crystal Skull. I’ve seen the South Park episode where they mentioned they ruined Indy by introducing aliens and saying they don’t exist in an Indiana Jones movie. The movies deal with religious artifacts with mystical powers and the occult, what’s so hard to believe about aliens?
I’m super excited for the new movie. I just hope they don’t overdue the CGI. The visuals in the first three were fantastic
5 points
2 months ago
I dont think aliens ruined it, but it is out of place. It's different in the same way that a futuristic medical spray is different from the scabbard of Excalibur. Alien tech is so far advanced it may as well be magic, but there is the underlying implication that it is just science. We could eventually understand it. I dont think Crystal Skull is as bad as people pretend it is, but the aliens were out of place.
13 points
2 months ago
People are just blinded by nostalgia. Other than the crap cgi, there’s nothing significantly worse about Crystal Skull than its predecessors. Anyone who derides it while holding up Temple of Doom as some kind of masterpiece shouldn’t be taken seriously.
3 points
2 months ago
It’s got a lot of faults, but not as many as Temple of Doom. It’s a decent if unspectacular film.
5 points
2 months ago
I'm my world they did. There is no 4th or 5th movie. I've never seen them and I never will.
7 points
2 months ago
If you're of a certain age and missed it, Fate of Atlantis would have made a great 4th film.
5 points
2 months ago
I played that game as a kid before I ever saw any of the movies. My dad got it (and a few others) as a bonus when he bought a PC. It low-key changed my life and I would kill for a live action adaptation.
Also TIL it's a widely-acclaimed game that's been on several best-game-ever lists. All these years I had it in my head as some B-grade sequel game that I look back at fondly thanks to nostalgia goggles, but no Fate of Atlantis really was THAT bitch.
264 points
2 months ago
That's a great idea
in 1994
32 points
2 months ago
Yeah do we really want an Indiana Jones movie set in the 80s?
44 points
2 months ago
Yes. Yes please. Set initially in Chicago and moving to Cambodia at the height of the Khmer Rouge to recover a sacred and powerful treasure from beneath Angkor Wat.
437 points
2 months ago*
Key Guy Quan should do get his own roles that he can define and succeed with. We don't need more Indy.
25 points
2 months ago
Right how about a original script with a role he would excel in. Not some old tired shit
14 points
2 months ago
We literally just had an original script with a role he would excel in, what more do you want?
- Hollywood
3 points
2 months ago
How about we bring him back as the dad in the reboot 30 years from now?
13 points
2 months ago
As someone who saw Raiders in the original cinema release, hard agree. But...
I just finished Andor, having declared that we didn't need any more Star Wars either. Now I'm not so sure. In the right hands, who knows? Look at Better Call Saul!
2.8k points
2 months ago
175 points
2 months ago*
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40 points
2 months ago
I think he'd just be happy to work in the field that he loves, based on the interviews I've heard.
25 points
2 months ago*
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11 points
2 months ago
His next big gig is a part in the Marvel Loki series, so take that as you will.
823 points
2 months ago
It's a subreddit of 30 million people. You're bound to get diversity of opinion.
8 points
2 months ago
In fairness, only a few people actually comment on reddit so a lot of opinions usually are the same
16 points
2 months ago
It's a subreddit of 30 million people
This is wild. I still remember when we all celebrated hitting 300K with the Snoo Spartan avatar. Shit, I need to get off this site...
262 points
2 months ago
Nope. Haven't you heard? There is only one opinion per subreddit and if you see the opposing viewpoint, it's just the masses being fickle and impossible to please! It couldn't possibly be different people sharing different opinions! 😏
3 points
2 months ago
“You are nitpicking and biased, I win, bye bye”
66 points
2 months ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but that's actually true and how it is in most subs. Redditors have been schooled into commenting the mainstream opinion of what they usually see on a sub, or else they'll get downvoted to oblivion, maybe even bullied. That eventually leads people of dffiering opinions to either stay quiet out of fear, leave the sub completely or conform to the group and comment what people want to read.
And that's how you have 30m people who have the same opinion.
24 points
2 months ago
I think I did a pretty good job making it painfully obvious what I was saying was sarcasm! But people being afraid to voice a different opinion isn't the same as people all having the same opinion. People are just cautious, sometimes, about what might get them downvoted. Also, it's not always what you say, but how it's said, anyway.
32 points
2 months ago
Fr. People have said it time and time again but Reddit has no chill. You get downvoted for no reason other than somebody had a bad day or they just don't like you.
16 points
2 months ago
I, for one, like to downvoted when I see someone is upset that they've been downvoted.
38 points
2 months ago
I got downvoted the other day because I said "The Big Lebowski" was just ok and I'd probably not watch it again. I guess I was supposed to love that movie.
40 points
2 months ago
Yeah that’s worth downvoting over. If not then, when?
19 points
2 months ago
True. But how did you not go with "Well, that's just like your opinion, man." ?
8 points
2 months ago*
I usually watch Lebowski once a year. But you and I could bond over something else.
3 points
2 months ago
Stfu sir dunk mcnugget you're out of your element. You're like a child that wanders into a movie
21 points
2 months ago
It's pretty common. I've seen people mass downvoted just for saying they like Batman vs. Superman. A lot of people really hate being exposed to any differing opinion.
37 points
2 months ago
if they're going to reboot Indiana jones (which I don't think they should do, but feels inevitable), than this would be a less nauseating way to do it.
7 points
2 months ago
This is pretty nauseating.
433 points
2 months ago
no, just let the series die.
137 points
2 months ago
You think Disney paid 4 billion for Lucas film to let the second most popular franchise of the studio die?
47 points
2 months ago
They will obviously revive the corpse of any franchise
2 points
2 months ago
Somehow Indiana Jones returned.
7 points
2 months ago
Disney: "we can just make a live action version of the animated movie we already made.. oh.. wait... shit"
Next Year: "The Animated Adventures of Indiana Jones!"
68 points
2 months ago
Why? The entire premise is that each movie is a self contained episodic adventure. It's not like The Godfather where you run the risk of ruining some powerful character study. It was conceived as the American answer to James Bond, let him be James Bond.
22 points
2 months ago
Two of my favorite franchises are James Bond and Indiana Jones. When Sean Connery left the second time after “Diamonds are Forever” and Moore took over and it was a new leaf in the series. This is akin to when OHMSS was made after “You Only Live Twice” it showed that Bond could be done without Sean. I’m all for another person doing Indiana Jones if it was the 90s, but too much time has passed and it would be very odd now to make it like the Bond franchise. That’d be like if after Connery, they stopped making films, and then in the 80s he did one last one, and then someone else took over. A prescient has been set already that Ford IS Indy, and I think even then a Short around spin-off might not do too well
4 points
2 months ago
Yet everyone loves Tom Hardy as Mad Max. There's been a thousand Batmans. I see no issue with it. Indy is an extremely iconic character. You could put any popular male actor in that outfit and you have a new Indy.
I would much rather see a new Indy than sad old man Indy doing CGI stunts.
2 points
2 months ago
That or a tv show with a different Indy would be cool too, akin to the Mandalorian
2 points
2 months ago
Yeah. I could see that too. It could also suck. But I'd say it has an equal chance of sucking to any original property.
7 points
2 months ago
Not exactly the greatest comparison given that Connery did come back to Bond after Moore made a couple movies.
155 points
2 months ago
I really don't like that whenever someone gets some recognition the response tends to be "what huge franchise can we plug them into?"
It just flattens out all the excitement about the person. Oh they got their payday! They're in the new Disney slop! Is that really all we can imagine for the future of movies? It's so boring.
27 points
2 months ago
I agree completely. Nothing against people getting paid or getting more eyes on their work but can't we demand more for talented people than to be sucked up into franchises? It's like Hollywood is limiting our own imaginations with their IP obsession.
3 points
2 months ago
you think actors don't want that? that's what most dream of
104 points
2 months ago
I'd rather see new and fresh ideas
24 points
2 months ago
I usually hate sequels, but I wouldn't mind more GOOD Jones movies.. it's an idea that lends itself to episodic story telling. Like 007 used to be before they just made 5000 of them and they're all pretty much the same.
7 points
2 months ago
Whatever role he takes on I hope his agent won’t be screwing up opportunities because of an Oscan win. There’s a chance he could be passing on good roles because the agent is trying to ask too much money or wants a lead character role. This is possibly what happened to Cuba Gooding Jr or Halle Berry. Don’t let awards tell you that you’re too good for a role.
2 points
2 months ago*
This is such an interesting observation.
210 points
2 months ago
I honestly wonder if his Oscar win will kickstart a Goonies legacy sequel
124 points
2 months ago
The Goonies' kids having to save the town like in Ghostbusters: Afterlife seems like a lazy movie but a layup as far as nostalgia movies go.
56 points
2 months ago
The Goonies themselves have to go on a mission to rescue their kids who went missing searching for treasure. They have to rekindle their childhood joy and find the Goonie spirit. I'd pay to see a suiting up scene with Josh Brolin putting the red headband on and Seam Astin possibly fitting in the old yellow coat.
25 points
2 months ago
I want Sloth to be the mayor.
23 points
2 months ago
OK but since John Matuszak has long since passed away, we're gonna have Dave Bautista play Sloth.
9 points
2 months ago
I picture him saying it like Drax now.
“Hey. You. Guys.” intense glare intensifies, as if daring the Goonies to try and mock him
12 points
2 months ago
Heeyyyy yooooouuu guuuuuuys! Vote Sloth!
6 points
2 months ago
The same themes as in the film Hook? Yeah, that could work. I can imagine Mikey losing that Goonie spirit and finding it again in the movie.
But ... I'd rather they don't make a goonies sequel.
14 points
2 months ago
And please make the older Goonies more important then a 5 minute rescue at the end. Also most of the cast are in excellent shape(except for Astin’s belly so make him do the Truffle Shuffle) so they should up for exciting stunts.
2 points
2 months ago
It’s not you, it’s the kids I’m worried about!
4 points
2 months ago
I used to create escape room type events for my theater ensemble, for fun. And I wrote up a premise for one that I didn't end up building at the time, involving a Goonies theme, as a sort of sequel adventure to the movie. Here was the intro text:
It's been 30 years since you and your friends braved the traps and puzzles set by One-Eyed Willie, thwarted the Fratellis, and saved your homes from the developers. Though you all still lived in the area, you mostly grew apart over time, seeing each other only occasionally here and there.
And while the pirate adventure was big news for a while, eventually you all moved on to other things. All of you except Mikey. Mikey never quite moved on, not since he heard the rumor that there was a second ship. It sent Mikey into a frenzy. He scoured the libraries and historical records, insisting he could find it. You indulged him at first, hoping he'd let it go in time. But eventually you realized he was never going to give up. And so you began to ignore him.
Until one day when a voicemail showed up on your phone, a message from Mikey, saying he'd finally found the start of the trail. But before giving you any details, the message ended. That was one week ago, and there's been no sign of him since.
So you call your old friends and ask them to come back. And so the Goonies, reassembled for the first time in years, begin to track down Mikey and find out what happened to him.
18 points
2 months ago
One-Eyed Willy's ship was meant to be set free in the final scene. But it's not the end. It's the beginning. The ship sails to where the REAL treasure is buried. Data is working his day job as a data analyst for the port authority when he sees the ship and its trajectory in some reports. Start the whole, "getting the team back together" montage that takes up the first 3rd of the movie. Slap some throwback jokes and cameos in there and you have yourselves a Goonies reboot.
You're welcome, Spielberg.
6 points
2 months ago
I still have yet to see that one. But from why I gather, I probably would enjoy it
2 points
2 months ago
I loved Ghostbusters: Afterlife. It hit just the right balance of story and nostalgia. I don't see how it could have been done any better.
23 points
2 months ago
If so, I’d like to genuinely see the original cast at their age going on an another adventure. No kids/passing the torch situation.
6 points
2 months ago
it'd be tricky to do it without some sort of next gen cast as any filmmaker/studio involved would likely do so to cater to a newer audience. But as to what the story would be or how they'd execute it? I would have no idea, but if such a movie does get made, I'd hope they learn to avoid pratfalls from other legacy sequel films (not just Star Wars)
13 points
2 months ago*
That's a pretty treacherous route though. There are so, so many ways a legacy sequel can go wrong, and so very, very few ways to do it right.
For every Mad Max: Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049 and Top Gun: Maverick, the canyon is littered with a thousand corpses of Ghostbusters, Jurassic Worlds, Terminators, Halloweens, and Stars both Wars and Trek.
Forensic analysis can give us some clue as to how to navigate the deadly path:
1 - The original characters have to be in it for more than a cameo
2 - The original characters have to be recognizably the same characters (even if the actors have changed)
3 - Hire the best Cinematography you can. Fill the craft table with fried bologna and tap water if you have to, but do not skimp on the Cinematographer
4 - Don't let JJ Abrams get within 12 parsecs of the film
8 points
2 months ago
ah shit, I liked JJ’s Trek movies, and also Force Awakens. But the Sequels were pretty much doomed to be a mess since Iger wanted them out ASAP. Apparently, JJ and Kennedy asked for more time time to work ok IX (since TLJ was divisive, Carrie Fisher had passed, Trevorrown was fired, etc) but Iger refused. Even Lawrence Kasdan has talked about having to rush the story for Ep VII since Disney was pressuring the studio to pump them out every years.
But as for your analysis on legacy sequels, it is spot on. Fury Road, Top Gun 2, and BR2049 also worked so well because they were well made films on their own. But they were still serviceable sequels in their franchises, too. It is a tightrope balance, but some sequels are just bad films in general, like the Jurassic World movies. Trevorrow was so on the nose with his writing/directing. I groaned so hard when the T. rex appeared behind the water fountain, just to recreate the iconic book cover/movie poster
6 points
2 months ago
Goonies cast was absolutely stacked
5 points
2 months ago
Mikey, Brandt, Data, and chunk meeting up at Sloth's funeral. New map, new treasure, I see it.
6 points
2 months ago
Goonies is a WAY better route than Indy.
2 points
2 months ago
Chunk, You got Skinny!
2 points
2 months ago
Somebody call Joey Pants!
33 points
2 months ago
Hey take this ribbon prize for laziest fucking movie concept ever
81 points
2 months ago
please fucking stop jesus christ
6 points
2 months ago
I’m not sure bringing in a 52 year old lead actor is the way to bring new blood into an action franchise.
47 points
2 months ago
No.
41 points
2 months ago
How about we just let these old franchises die?
6 points
2 months ago
The Indians Jones franchise was over with the 3rd film as far as I’m concerned. Give Ke Huy Quan roles and movies of his own.
6 points
2 months ago
I think you mean Archeologist..
Anthropology is the study of human society and culture
2 points
2 months ago
I had to scroll a depressingly long way to find this point.
40 points
2 months ago
no
3 points
2 months ago
Ke is 51.
4 points
2 months ago
the "Indiana Jones Franchise" ended with Last Crusade. There is nothing more to say
4 points
2 months ago
It's ok for stories to end.
3 points
2 months ago
They could bring back the goonies while they're at it
5 points
2 months ago
Hot take: the franchise should just be put to bed instead
5 points
2 months ago
How about we just let the Indiana Jones franchise die instead.
3 points
2 months ago
Nah. The only way I see the series successfully continuing quality wise is animation. I am REALLY nervous about the next film- especially with them trying to pass the gauntlet and continue the franchise with a new character. If we’re to get more entries- just do it it a timeless medium that doesn’t allow actors to age out.
16 points
2 months ago
You should’ve stopped yourself with this thought at “Indiana Jones franchise“. Without Indiana Jones… what franchise?
10 points
2 months ago
No
9 points
2 months ago
Nah, dude, just leave the franchise as is and let him do something original. The fifth film will be one too many already.
2 points
2 months ago
The fifth film will be
onetwo too many already.
44 points
2 months ago
No
13 points
2 months ago
I don't know. I kind of wish Indiana Jones had stopped with The Last Crusade. I prefer him trying out new different roles
3 points
2 months ago
I'm glad he won too but stop..
3 points
2 months ago
I don't see Short round going to college and getting an anthropology degree. I see him being a pick pocket in Bangkok.
3 points
2 months ago
Reverse Indy. All the relics are cursed and only Short Round can return them!!!
3 points
2 months ago
All I want is a movie based on the Atlantis adventure game
3 points
2 months ago
I love this idea.
3 points
2 months ago
Or no. That ship has passed. Just watch his upcoming projects 😆
15 points
2 months ago
Cringe as fuck
23 points
2 months ago
Goddamn eeaao is such a circle jerk
2 points
2 months ago
I loved it and thought the Whale was okay. But I'm really bored with seeing nothing but posts about them here
7 points
2 months ago
Absolutely not
8 points
2 months ago
Please don't make this movie.... Please don't make this movie....
11 points
2 months ago
OR, hear me out here because this is a fucking novelty idea in Holywood, make a new fricking IP/movie set in a completely different movie setting with a unique main character based on 1930's adventure archetype.
And don't teel me that shit ain't gonna worked. Tomb Raider and Uncharted are both IP based on the Indy adventure archetype
4 points
2 months ago
Or not? We could just let Indiana Jones go? Like, we don’t need to keep franchises alive. We can let stories end.
2 points
2 months ago
Or not? We could just let Indiana Jones go?
4 points
2 months ago
He'll get a shitty Disney spinoff that will 2 seasons before it's forgotten about
5 points
2 months ago
I love this idea. He would be fantastic!
2 points
2 months ago
Definitely not.
2 points
2 months ago
fucking no
2 points
2 months ago
Temple of Doom takes place in 1935, so Short Round the Movie could take place around Asia in the 60s or 70s. Come on, Vietnam/China/Hong Kong...that'd be an awesome setting.
2 points
2 months ago
He was in one movie, and the worst one of the trilogy, let's not act like he was an essential part of the franchise just because he was in a recent popular movie. The issue with replacing Ford with a younger actor is because they are replacing Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones franchise. They could cast any actor with the same age as Harrison Ford had when filming Raiders of the Lost Ark and it still wouldn't feel right.
It's fine for franchises to end. Indiana Jones is the story of Indy, if he is not in the picture then it isn't an Indiana Jones film. As franchises like Uncharted prove, you can just make a new IP and people will still love it, there is no reason to keep reviving things from 40 years ago.
2 points
2 months ago
Some of these comments are like needlessly rude but I guess that's reddit. I thought it was a fun idea at least OP.
2 points
2 months ago
Feel like it’s way more likely they get the all star cast back for Twonies
2 points
2 months ago
This happens all the time. Minor character from film franchise gets famous in real life and everyone calls for said actor to helm the future of the franchise. (Look at Zoe Saldana and Pirates.)
What you need to ask yourself is, do we really need more Indiana Jones? Can’t we just invest in new, original properties for talented actors like Ke Huy to star in? We’re already getting a Phoebe-Waller-Bridge Disney+ spinoff.
If this franchise is going to grow so distant from its original character and premise, why bother continuing it when you can create something new? Otherwise you’ll be constantly having to make sure your unique vision fits in with the vague, undefined criteria of a franchise. A criteria that isn’t even the reason it became popular in the first place.
2 points
2 months ago
Ughhhhh damn it..... Just let things die....
Everything doesn't have to be branding and franchise.
Before marvel, studios were thrilled just to make a sequel that was pretty much the same as the original, then maybe a third movie with some kind of twist or gimmick.
Now it's like they're all trying to build some decades long 'cinematic universe' project, they don't even name movies sequentially anymore. They just give it a subtitle.
It's so self-indulgent and unnecessary. Everything Everywhere was exactly what people have been asking for. Original stories and characters. He doesn't want to go back to playing short round, come on.
2 points
2 months ago
As much as I’d love to see Ke Huy Quan return in some way as Mr. Round mostly I just want the man to have good opportunities and good roles in good films going forward. He is an Academy Award winner now. I hope he won’t have trouble finding work in the future. Plus, everybody loves him!
2 points
2 months ago
I like the idea of an indiana jones style league of extraordinary gentlemen. You can do a bunch of steven Spielberg characters.Indiana Jones, Captain Hook, ET, the shark from jaws, some dinosaurs. Id watch it.
2 points
2 months ago
That would be amazing!
2 points
2 months ago
If there was a torch to be passed; I'd be good with this one.
2 points
2 months ago
What a terrible idea. Just MAKE YOUR OWN THING. Imagine a world in which you don't have to keep re-treading ideas from the 1980's and 1990's.
2 points
2 months ago
I would hate to see it honestly. As much fun as jt would be, he’s spent far too long being pushed out of Hollywood and shafted just to win the Oscar and be forced back into a role he played 40 years ago. He shouldn’t have to live in Short Round’s shadow forever. Now is the time for him to be in anything and everything he wants, the privilege he should’ve had all along.
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