Here’s one from the helluva good idea department. Marvel offerings are soaring, and Star Wars is being reinvigorated by director JJ Abrams. Now, Disney has just started to turn its attention to reviving the Indiana Indiana Jones bullwhipJones franchise after buying the rights from Paramount in 2013. I’m cautioned that while things are very early, I hear the studio has set its sights on Chris Pratt as the swashbuckling archaeologist they hope to build the new franchise around, the role made famous by Harrison Ford in Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
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Wow!! This could be awesome for Chris Pratt. Like him very much so I hope this comes to fruition
ReplyDeleteI said this somewhere else, but I'll say it here...No...I like Chris Pratt, I do, but he's got the Guardians Franchise and the new Jurassic Park movies...IF they have to redo or continue on with Indy whether it be in Prequels or a New Character, pick someone new, otherwise he's going to end up like Jennifer Lawrence or Shailene Woodley or other actors that are just in everything...
ReplyDeleteSo Hollywood is in the phase where they hire Chris Pratt for everything. He's very talented, but he's not Harrison Ford.
ReplyDeleteI really like Chris Pratt but I jut hope we don't get oversaturated with him to where we get sick of him.
ReplyDeletelol Chris Pratt seriously. He's already in GOTG and Jurassic Park
ReplyDeleteIt's officially "reboot everything!" day.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable what a couple of pounds down can do for an actor!
ReplyDeleteI liked him back in his Everwood days, but this seems huge. Indiana Jones is a Legend!
Chris Pratt CAME TO STAY, BITCHES! i'm so glad! He's so talented and beautiful. He's easy to love :)
ReplyDeleteI like Chris Pratt but, seriously, DON'T DO THAT!! There's no need for reboot.
ReplyDeleteAnything original Hollywood? :( seems like it's all remakes or stuff.
ReplyDeleteThat time of original ideas has long since passed.
ReplyDeleteI'm saying we need an Indy revival, but I could totally support this casting. I can really see him playing the part.
ReplyDeletehe needs tot hank Marvel for all the attention he is getting. I can see him in the part. He kinda looks like Harrison Ford xD.
ReplyDeleteI feel like Hollywood is giving up on original ideas, all there is now is remakes or books being movies. And the worst thing the good original ideas always flop.
MTE!
ReplyDeleteAs long as Ford lives Jones must not be recast!
ReplyDeleteGive someone else a chance! This could make some actor who is just making it into a star.
ReplyDeleteYeah, file this one under "horribly bad ideas". There is only one Indiana Jones at that's Harrison Ford.
ReplyDeleteLet it die...
ReplyDeleteIn fact just kill it! Kill it with fire!
No more Indy Jones movies please!
The last attempt at a backdoor reboot was horrible enough. Don't make it any worse for the once great franchise!
That said, I am all for a new series about an adventurer/ archeologist travelling the globe!
I just think some things run their course and should have a DNR order on them...
Yeah, how about NO.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand why are they touching on a classic? On the other hand...it's CHRIS PRATT!
ReplyDelete:-( NO! :-(
ReplyDeleteThere's actually a TV show called Reboot. Crazy world!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108903/
If this would be a spin off, I could get on board with it, but as a reboot, I think I'll probably pass. I hope they don't over use Chris Pratt, even though I wish him a successful career.
ReplyDelete"That said, I am all for an entirely new series about an adventurer/ archaeologist travelling the globe!
ReplyDeleteI just think some things run their course and should have a DNR order on them."
I enjoyed the last one (please don't hate me! XD ), but with SL being a wreck, HF getting up there, and with the series hitting the late 50's mark, unless they dig up "time travel", I generally agree with you. I think they could just make a new series that doesn't necessarily relate to Indiana Jones at all that could be uniquely as good for this generation of movie goers. It's not that I'm completely against it, but for me, it would take a lot of effort for it to feel right.
I think physically he could look the part (even JP has a touch of scientific type), but I'm not sure if vocally he could be as funny as Harrison Ford!?? The only other actor that vocally ever remind me of Ford is Karl Urban, which is why I suspect they cast him in a blade runner-esque role on Almost Human.
ReplyDeleteIt's reasonably old dude. And about a virtual world.
ReplyDeleteHe's 70 Mac. While do find the reboot unnecessary. If you're doing it you have to recast. At least it's not Shia.
ReplyDeleteWow.chris pratt is really taking over hollywood
ReplyDeleteAt least recast Shia with Pratt then and have him take over the franchise with Ford stepping in like Sean Connery did in Indy 3
ReplyDeleteI like that idea. As long as the events of Kingdom are forgotten and Mutt or whatever is re-written to be less douchey (though Pratt's natural likability could work no matter what).
ReplyDeleteI know, but still.
ReplyDelete"Reboot" is super old haha
ReplyDeleteFair.
ReplyDeleteNot at all surprising, it would be stupid for Disney to acquire the franchise and not make more films. As much as I enjoy the movies, it's not like I find them sacred or anything (or Harrison Ford for that matter) so, whatever they do, I hope they respect the originals and make it entertaining, that's all I ask.
ReplyDeleteI do think Chris Pratt would be a good fit to take over the role though.
I'd rather a network just reboot "Veritas: The Quest" and we'd have what you're asking for. Except in TV form. :)
ReplyDeleteOn the big screen, I'd rather them reboot Tomb Raider again.
No hate here.... well not directed at you at least XD
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean...
I may like a new series too... if it is done well. I just think the odds are severely stacked against a reboot working.
Enough with the revivals/reboots already! Think of something original for a change.
ReplyDeleteI had a feeling this would happen, Disney's not going to let a marketable property go away.
ReplyDeleteI'd kinda prefer if they made an animated show on Disney XD though. Get Ford on board with the voice acting and introduce a new generation of kids to the franchise through the animated show (much like how the new generation of kids are being introduced to Marvel through the 3 soon to be 4 animated shows).
New actor, new stories... FINE! New actor, rehashing old stories, NOT FINE!!!
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt an Indiana Jones reboot could make money (not that I want a reboot), but Chris Pratt is as good of a choice as any. Certainly better than Shia LaCrap.
I'm one of the few people that liked KOTCS. It's the one time where one can kind of see Indy being a real fish out of water in almost every way, as he is betrayed by his own government, has to live in vastly changing world (The late 50's), one of these 'punks' is his son and he has to reconcile fatherhood, which is fantastically ironic given his line of work (archaeology and anthropology are about the preservation and understanding of humanity) and events in the previous film, he has to more seriously re-examine his "skepticism" on both family and beyond humanity matters, and where the whole film plays homage to the previous three with tie-ins and parallels (The Arc was said to be "not of this word" , the skulls are reminiscent to Temple's stone idols, and with role reversal of Indy being a son and now a father in changing times through yet another World War...)
ReplyDeleteIt's biggest problems IMO are with Henry Sr.'s continuity (which I'm sure has everything to do with SC), a little too much CGI at times, where it's time period is (which could be remedied with time travel--I just can't imagine a supernatural 1960's, but maybe I'm wrong), and with SL ruining his career.
But I think they could get away with a 20-something slightly more educated "Mutt" and recast with Pratt. It might work, because Pratt is not quite Ford, but yet he could be an evolved SL. His comedy and sentiment in GOTG IMO is right in between those two. Pratt just doesn't remind me of Ford at all, but does remind me of River Phoenix...
I'm with you. I just don't see going on with anything Indy, unless the hat is somehow passed (which it was at the end of KOTCS) and set in the same universe. If they would make Pratt an older Mutt and they could somehow not make the series feel too modern (1960's/70's), it might work...
ReplyDeleteI didn't think of this before either (and it probably wouldn't work because they would have to change the Franchise's name, since Indy was nick-named Indy since he was a boy), but they could do prequels with the "Fedora" character...