May 26, 2008

I’m a fre­quent reader of Ain’t It Cool News, the grand­fa­ther of all movie rumor sites that was started by rotund Aus­ti­nite Harry Knowles in 1996. If you want to know some­thing, any­thing, about an upcom­ing movie that’s sci-fi or arty or action related it’s the place to check out first. More than likely that movie you care about has already held a pro­mo­tional screen­ing and some­one has writ­ten in to the site say­ing if it was good or not. On top of that they put to print many movie rumors such as upcom­ing projects, scripts that are in the works and what par­tic­u­lar peo­ple in Hol­ly­wood are going to be work­ing on next. It’s an amaz­ingly com­pre­hen­sive site for the movie nerd like me.

And so I was perus­ing it the other day and came across a head­line, writ­ten with, as usual for AICN, with too many excla­ma­tion points -

Lucas Talks INDY 5!!

Wha…? More Indi­ana Jones movies? Isn’t Har­ri­son Ford get­ting too old (Of course, it’s not the age, it’s the mileage.) to do this kind of stuff any­more? Shouldn’t he be the lov­ing father in a San­dra Bul­lock or Kate Hud­son movie? Why not an arty drama, Har­ri­son, like the Michael Dou­glas role you turned down in Traf­fic?

But then again George Lucas has never seen a bad oppor­tu­nity to return to the well too many times. The sec­ond Star Wars tril­ogy was enough to prove that and once again Lucas is bring­ing the anger to him­self. From AICN, quot­ing a Fox News article -

“I haven’t even told Steven or Har­ri­son this,” he said. “But I have an idea to make Shia [LeBeouf] the lead char­ac­ter next time and have Har­ri­son [Ford] come back like Sean Con­nery did in the last movie. I can see it work­ing out.

“And it’s not like Har­ri­son is even old. I mean, he’s 65 and he did every­thing in this movie. The old chem­istry is there, and it’s not like he’s an old man. He’s incred­i­bly agile; he looks even bet­ter than he did 20 years ago, if you ask me.”

Come on, George! Leave. It. Alone! It was bad enough that you guys had to make just one more Indy film, we might have another 2 or 3 films where Indy is hob­bling around while his son is the hero?

Good God, man, when are you going to know when to say when? Stop it! Just stop!

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