Exclusive: Indy 5 Is A Go! Frank Marshall spills the beans
The hat is officially out of the bag. On Monday Shia Labeouf let slip that a follow up to Indiana Jones And TheKingdom of the Crystal Skull was on the cards and now Frank Marshall has pretty much confirmed it, suggesting that Indy V could be approaching the pencil-chewing script development stage.
Although he didn't specify timelines, Marshall told Empire that ideas would be worked on with a view to green-lighting production sooner rather than later. "It's really about the script," says the veteran Indy producer. "Once we see that, we'll see. We're not going to wait another 20 years. We'd all love to make another one. I'm anxious to hear the idea!"
But are Mssrs. Spielberg, Ford and Lucas equally sold on a fifth outing for the whip-cracking archeologist? "Yeah. We had a great time making the last one and, as Harrison said, we need to make this one soon. We're not getting any younger."
With Ford fast approaching his 67th birthday, time is definitely of the essence. Up may have raised the bar for the ageing adventurers, but Indy showed signs of creakiness in The Crystal Skull and it's safe to rule out too many rolling boulder chases or collapsing rope bridges from a further sequel. Hopefully the same goes for the gopher.
One caveat to all this is the lack of a concrete idea. As Marshall told us: "Until there's a script, nothing's definite. I haven't heard the idea." Here's your chance to play George Lucas and post your most mind-bending McGuffins below...
indiana Jones and the appalling treatment of Frank Darabont
Now David Koepp's drivelsome Crystal Skull script has been filmed so averagely, perhaps the next Indy movie could be a simple remake of 4, using the rejected Darabont script that everyone except George "revenge attack on my phantom childhood" Lucas thought was the best script since Raiders. ... Read More
The nature of the McGuffin, in my opinion, is beside the point. It's the involvement of the hero. In any installment after Raiders, Indy got involved only accidentally. In Temple of Doom, he falls from the sky; in the Last Crusade he was looking for his father, not the Grail; and in Kingdom it was another family affair. The Skull itself was a distant second. In other words: he tags along. I'll take any McGuffin, or McMuffin for all I care, as long as it's Indy himself who initiates the adventure... Read More
(Cont'd): Indiana Jones And The Devils Of The Catacombs
Indy is saved by a knock at the door - It's Marions friend & he bundles her out the door.
Willie & shorty have some kind of quest or small mcguffin willie wants appraised - she is broke & needs cash. But there is more she is not saying. She asks about Marion's old school friend suspiciously. Cut to marion on her dinner date & the friend is inquiring about what Marion knows about "The Chinese Boy".
Shorty is in trouble, Willie is trying to bail him out, marions Fr... Read More
Indy is approaching retirement & feeling old. Hes settiling in & adjusting to Marion & Mutt. He promises no more adventures. Marion is getting dressed to go out with an old female friend when there is a knock on the door (Or newfangled doorbell). Indy answers & it's an asian man who indy dosnt recoqnise at first untill a womans voice speaks appearing in shilloutte from the shadows, it's Wille Scott. Indy is shocked & before he has time to respond he realises the man is a grow... Read More
Mutt and Indy set off in search of a mysterious island that was believed to exist between Russia/Japan and the west coast of North America. They find a lost civilisation made up of both Inuit and Russian explorers. The only way off, they discover, is to go further back in time. Indy stays on the island but gives Mutt his fedora as a keepsake. Mutt returns. Many years later, Mutt finds the Cross of Coronado in a cave. His find is stolen by a young scout, but he eventually gets the Cross back from... Read More
Not content with ruining one perfectly good trilogy...And is there ANYONE out there who really thinks the Star Wars prequels are fit to clean the crap of the shoes of the original trilogy) Mr Lucas (and Mr Speilberg - Im suprised at you!) are ruining an absolute ICON of the 80s. Crystal Skull was mediocre at best. Worthly only of 2 stars if you took the rose tinted spectacles off. I mean come on - do we really want the memory ruined still further. Please empire, I beg of you if you have ... Read More
Give the endless period of chronic mastication, the next caper would surely have to be set in the 60's, and that has to incorporate the Space Race and The Chinese.
That said, EVERYBODY wants the return of The Nazis, and I'd like to see an adventure partly-set in Athens, with Indy chasing for the powers of the Greek Gods.
Did anybody see those illustrations from the potentially great sequence at the Peruvian graves that was never filmed? Pity. The film needed it. ... Read More
indy and the cross of nazareth ...or something like that
The 2 best indfy films are raiders and last crusade because they deal with biblical artefacts / legends so they need to carry on this theme. kingdom was bad because it dealt with aliens which should be left to the x files and the like indy is not sc-fi!!!
a possible plot could revolve around some baddies getting hold of a fragment of the true cross from jesus's crucifiction and it having some of his blood on it which could be used to create a new 'son of god' using the DNA (if around then?) ... Read More
If they're going to do it please do it without Lucas, the man is a Phantom Menace! I did like some of the ideas used in Indy 4 - Indy's age, the 50's setting, Area 51, the Russians, the b-movie atomic theme, but the film just didn't know when to stop with the ridiculous slapstick and bloody CGI which was obviously Lucas' contribution to the film! Spielberg and Ford need to take more creative control and make it darker and more gounded in reality like the first three movies! ... Read More
Last time we heard something about a new Indy movie being "a go", we had to wait almost 20 years...
I hope this is true, but I also hope that if the do get on with it, they'll dump the lousy CGI!!!
IT DOES NOT LOOK REAL, CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? "Raiders" looked 1000 times better and it's over 25 years older that "Kingdom" ... Read More
