Harrison Ford on Star Wars rumours
A short and to the point update on Star Wars: Episode VII from Harrison Ford. Will he be returning?
You don't need us to tell you that there's been quite a rumour mill at work surrounding the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII. JJ Abrams is directing the film, and reports had suggested that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were all set to return for the new movie.
Fisher had seemingly confirmed her involvement at one stage (although it's since been claimed that was a joke), and now Harrison Ford has been asked whether he'll be back. The actor revealed that he hasn't as of yet formally signed on for the film, but it's now looking very likely that he will.
"I think it's almost true", he told WGN TV. "I'm looking forward to it. It's not in the bag yet, but I think it's going to happen".
Well blimey. Presumably a big announcement, once all the key cast are in place, is on the way. We'd expect that once JJ Abrams has successfully released his new film, Star Trek Into Darkness, into the world.
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Really, really dubious about this. Think I would prefer it to remain in my childhood, where it was the most amazing thing ever...
" "I'm looking forward to it..."
Says the guy who wanted to be killed off in the first movie.
...right up until the point when the Teddy Bears' Picnic ruined the second half of the third film
This makes perfect sense.
Empire Strikes Back, easily the best of all the Star Wars movies, made Harrison Ford a superstar.
Raiders of the Lost Ark confirmed it.
Ford can still bring it, as we saw in the fourth Indy picture, even though that one kind of wafted away in the end on that silly Lucas-inspired bit of interdimensional alien hoo-hah.
Yep... Actors are often such hypocrites. Mind you after all the crap he has been doing for the last ten years it will probably be a relief for him to make a big block of money for doing very little.
Star Trek was the most amazing thing in my childhood.
I've managed to carry on with the older Leonard Nimoy and the older William Shatner running around, AND with the younger Chris Pine and Zach Quinto carrying on.
It wasn't the aliens that bothered me (read up on the Mayans and the Crystal Skulls, the film does actually have some depth.. and at the end of Raiders some guys faces melt off, in Temple a guys heart is removed without him dying and in Crusade the knight has been alive for years!), it was three things...
1. The fridge
2. Tarzan
3. Indy got married?!?!?! (WTAF?!)
The ending sucked, as most have acknowledged.
Your issues?
1. The fridge rocks. Absolutely hysterical.
2. Tarzan was ridiculous, you're right there.
3. Indy got married, and that was cool and appropriate for the character. Most real Indy fans loved it. I've noticed there's kind of a girls have cooties sort of thing going here.
Not really as it does have a lot of similarities to Raiders (melting face/ info overload).
1. Although I do support it being hilarious, no amount of religious/ alien spacemagic will allow a human being to survive a nuclear explosion in a fridge and then be able to open said fridge from the inside.
2. WORST PART OF FILM! Ha.
3. It's not the fact 'girls have cooties', it's that Indy is a player, regardless of age. (IMO as a 'true' Indy fan (enjoying all 4 films (obviously minus these three points)
I only didn't like them because I had read they were supposed to be Wookies.
Having only seen Raiders about 40 times since the first time in the theater the day it came out, I vaguely recall that the ending of the action in the film is prefigured by the plates that Indy and the others look at early on. It's entirely consistent with the storyline from start to finish.
What Lucas did is ruin the story, which was supposed to be a '50s Cold War flying saucer thriller by saying no aliens and instead putting his half-witted alien concept in, instead.
1. These are movies. And actually, since Indy was not next to the relatively weak nuclear blast in that fridge, he might well have survived. The radiation is another matter, but, what the frak?
2. The Shia character was a bit problematic, but okay, EXCEPT, as you point out, in the Tarzan sequence which was not only over the top but so long it took me out of the picture.
3. Most from the beginning Indy fans agree that Marion was by far the best of the Indy Girls, because she's the real match for him. At this point in his life, Indy has a grown son and is 58 years old. With Harrison himself 65 at that time.
He's not Bond.
Yes, but the fact that all the Russian lass wanted was information and tha ended up being her undoing was a decent (even predictable) end, but fitting nonce the less.
1. If some one were to jump in a fridge when a nuke went off then I think I've read somewhere that you could indeed survive, the point I'm making is that you cannot open a fridge from the inside, so he'd suffocate anyway. (Also misleading for kiddy winks, 'but Indy did it'!!)
2. Don't hate the character, just the scene.
3. No cause Bond has been going for 50 years with film no. 24 on the way and on his ninth actor, don't compare the two, they are incomparable.
(Other than the fact they are both indeed, players)
I'd say it was more lame of Lucas to have to marry Indy, even if Marion was the most suitable for him.. ( IMO she shouldn't have even been there... )
I like the Cate Blanchett character, but the ending was not good enough for her.
1. I'm sure INDY can open a fridge from the inside. It's the least of his many feats ... :)
2. I agree, the character's fine (don't like the hate he engenders), the scene is awful.
3. I do compare Indy and Bond because Indy was presented to Spielberg by Lucas as a character "better than Bond" when he talked up doing Raiders.
Unlike Indy, who does age through history, Bond is ALWAYS a contemporary figure. He is not fixed in history. He is never a period character.
Bond doesn't become the older guy that Indy is in this movie. Daniel Craig, good as he is, will be gone after the next two movies because he will be too old for the role.
I also did, but I also liked her demise, better than ants which is what I though was gonna happen first time I watched!
1. Well if you put it like that! (; haha!
3. In that case Spielberg made a horrible comparison because neither are the same and/or better than the other.
They are individual pieces of art, both amazing (well most of the Bonds are!).
I don't like Spielberg to be honest, South Park does an apsolutely hilarious (and lifelike) portrayal of him in a few episodes!
(And Lucas for that matter!!)
I agree with you that Bond, which I love, and Indy are not the same thing. But they're both intended to be archetypal figures of Britain and America, respectively.
They're both reality (roughly) based action heroes with no super powers. Neither is super rich, unlike Bruce Wayne, so more relatable.
They're both aspirational figures. Bond as, well, all the stylish, glamorous, and lethally capable things that are Bond. Indy as more rough and ready as Americans like to think of themselves, but also a serious intellectual who can dress up nicely when he needs to. He is, after DR. Jones.
... Oh, Spielberg, right. Not sure what I think of him personally. I think his self-importance caught up with him in the Oscar contest around Lincoln. (Hauling out Bill Clinton to push the movie at the Golden Globes was too much.)
But he's made some of my all-time favorite movies -- Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders, etc. -- and he can really bring it when he wants to.
Those three films are decades ago though.
His latest achievement for me was Jurrassic Park, twenty years old.
He's a douche.. (;
Cheers for the chat, watch them South Park episodes!
And I shall watch 'the fridge' in a better light! Haha!
Oh, those are the epic 3 for me that cemented it if you will, there's also Saving Private Ryan. Munich, Last Crusade, Jurassic Park. I think Lincoln is quite good, I liked Minority Report, etc. He's very good.
yes, good chat!
I would definitely have liked them to look at entirely new characters. I really hope all of this is only about cameo appearances.
Yeah, that would have been cooler but would have been less of a surprise when the natives kicked the empires ass!
Unless you're twenty, the new star wars already ruined it
Couldn't stand Shia in the movie. Wrong actor at the wrong time. Just didn't fit the Indy movie image that I was looking for in the fourth film. Thought they could have gone in a different direction with the movie considering the way it ended. Loved seeing Marion back. Also, it just didn't have that Indy feel to me, though it did have its moments.
He's not who I'd pick to play Indy's son, but ...
I'm fond of about half of the movie. It is great having Marion back.