Harrison Ford says he has ”no doubt” that a fourth Indiana Jones movie will come together. ”We’re closer than we’ve ever been. There’s a script upon which there’s pretty general agreement,” he tells EW writer Gregory Kirschling in the magazine’s new issue. Why the holdup? ”George [Lucas] has been a bit busy making these sci-fi films he likes. And Steven [Spielberg] has had a film or two, in turn. So it really is not that easy to pull the pieces together, but I think everybody feels it’s a worthy ambition. I know in my heart it’s gonna happen.” Besides, he says, ”I’d like to get it over with so I don’t have to answer the god-damned questions [about it] anymore.”
Among the oft-asked questions: Can the 63-year-old actor still handle the franchise’s action demands? It appears so to Kirschling, who watched Ford throw himself into some punishing-looking stunts on the set of his new movie Firewall. Oops, don’t call them stunts. ”I don’t do stunts! I do physical acting! That’s a big f—ing difference,” Ford tells Kirschling. ”I have no ambition to do stunts. I have an ambition to tell a story with physical action.”
Okay, then, what story with physical action would you like to see Ford tell in Indy 4? And which costars should he tell it with? (I’d suggest sending Ford’s whip-wielding archaeologist to find the Fountain of Youth, but I think Hugh Jackman is going to beat him to it in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain.)
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You have an item about a Magnum P.I. movie and a too old Harrison Ford playing Indianna Jones one more time. How about focusing on original movies. Did we learn nothing from last summer?
Harrison would be better off playing Ulysees Grant in Spielberg*s Lincoln Biopic. HOW ABOUT ERIC BANA AS A *new* Indiana Jones?
Send Indy to look for the Crown of Thorns. And please, if he’s going to have a son (i.e. a younger sidekick to take the brunt of the physical demands, which is a rumor I heard), make it someone cool, like maybe Joaquin Phoenix? His brother did a good job playing Young Indy, so why not keep it in the family?
Harrison Ford is not too old. I’d like to see someone tell him that to his face. The guy’s in great shape and can pull it off. And a new Indy movie isn’t a remake, it’s called a sequel (right?), and it’s about time.
He’s not too old but they need to do it soon.
I dont think Ford is too old but I am curious if they are going to have Sean Connery play his dad because at this point he looks more like his older brother.
Boy, Harrison Ford sounds cranky. Maybe he’s got a loaded adult diaper and wants Calista to empty it as soon as possible.
The physical action in Indy 4 will be Ford crawling out of a wheelchair. Yes, he’s too old.
A Search for Atlantis .. and whether or not it will be an actual location or a metaphor, I’ll leave that to the screenwriter.
So long as it actually happens and Michelle Yeoh still has a part, I don’t care what it’s about, although Atlantis does intrigue me.
I’ve long assumed the story might have something to do with the Far East, perhaps something related to Buddhism (a natural religion to go to if one looks at the olther films focusing on Judaism, Hinduism and Christianity respectively).
As a die hard Indy and Harrison Ford fan I can’t wait for this to happen. I’ve been snapping up every tidbit of info on the project I can find for years now. I don’t believe he’s too old, even if the past few years havn’t been as kind to him…and from what I’ve heard they might go with a story arch that is found in the latest Indy games. In Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine he’s up against communist Russia and Stalin which, in my opinion, successfully accounts for the age difference.
everytime I see this Indy 4 noise, it makes me cringe…can’t we remember the good old days when H-Ford made cool action movies like Indy 1 (not 2 or 3) and do we REALLY need a geriatric Indy 4 to make us all cry? please, H-Ford – grow up and do roles for a 63 yr old…
When I said Indianna Jones one more time I meant a sequel. Listen to him do interveiws. You can almost hear him say “Kids get out of my yard”. Maybe if they got a younger guy to play his son or grandson. But, there is something to be said for not ruining the memories of great movies by running the franchise into the ground.
the age factor doesnt scare me…but george lucas’s involvment does, will he kill the whole movie with his new found passion for CGI everything movies…i would hate for a phantom menace lie movie for poor indy
Harrison? YOU ARE TOO OLD! Play the grand-pas you SHOULD be playing or retire. You haven’t made a good movie in 10 years or more. Please don’t ruin Indy, like you’ve ruined the rest of your legacy. Next thing you know we’ll have to put up with Han Solo with a space walker. Geesh.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm…Harrison. 63 has never looked so good.
Pass the Indy torch on Harrison. Yuck – don’t want to see a senior citizen doing physical stunts (oh excuse me – I mean “physical acting”).
Although never the friendliest of actors, he is such a cranky-pants (would it kill the guy to smile?!) and more unlikeable as he ages. The only sequel Harrison should consider doing is Grumpy Old Men!!
Thanks to Blade Runner and Star Wars, Harrison will always be a star in my eyes. I loved the Indiana Jones series and would love to see them brought back.
If Roger Moore and Sean Connery could play Bond well into their old age, I think we can give ole’ Harrison one more shot at the role.
I’ve got to agree with the folks who said they need to do this movie now or never though. The talks for Indy 4 have gone on for more than 10 years, enough to make the series itself more a piece of modern archeology than something recent.
Send Indy to look for the Crown of Thorns. And please, if he’s going to have a son (i.e. a younger sidekick to take the brunt of the physical demands, which is a rumor I heard), make it someone cool, like maybe Joaquin Phoenix? His brother did a good job playing Young Indy, so why not keep it in the family?
Qoute BP !
Sooo True !
I think Harrison Ford can do what EVER he makes his mind up to do! 63 to old? sheesh He looks GREAT! Always has! Now if he could only get some more meat on Callista’s body he’d be on the top of my HERO list!
And I WANNA SEE A Indy4 !!! Please~
It doesn’t expect it of Harrison Ford though it expects of Indiana Jones 4.
Because he grew old too much.
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I got access to a first draft of Indy 4. Harrison will be playing the ancient relic, and he has to dig himself up.
I’m sure they’ll deal with his age in the movie, so it will probably be ok. I have only one request, NO KATE CAPSHAW, please, I would rather they pair Harrison Ford with Tom Selleck and do a brokeback version of Indiana Jones than suffer through any scenes with Kate Capshaw struggling to act. But seriously, they need to get Karen Allen back, Indy and Marion belong together.
OMG! It should open with Indy going into a bar (like Arc did-only its a different bar) only this time he’s asking to see the owner of the bar because the only person serving drinks is some pretty little thing who looks for all the world like the personification of ‘delicate flower’.
So it’s kind of a shock when she glances up sharply and roughly says “who’s asking?” and bemused he says “Mr.Jones” to which she just tilts her head to the side and looks like she’s contemplating it. So even more bemused he says “And you, what’s your name Sweetheart?” and she looks angry for a second before calming herself down and smiling leans over the bar and says “Friends of the owner call me Ana” And he goes “Ana- that’s a pretty name,” and she says, still leaning over the bar and smirking goes “Yeah, you should know (pause, before she looks him in the eye smirking) Indiana?” and he looks startled to which she suddenly knocks off all the drinks on the counter between them while saying angrily “she always said you’d show up again one day, but I figured you’d be smarter than that-” and here she suddenly swings and punches him really, really hard (like Arc) “Dad”.
And then if I had COMPLETE control over the plotline there’d be a gangly kind of boy, probably blonde (maybe a dressed-down Hayden Christienson?) and he’d be her ex and somehow or other they’d have to go travelling to find her mother (presumed Marianne) who suddenly disapeered a few days back (and Indiana thinks is connected to his showing up, which the audience knows but they don’t) and somehow or other they end up in a restaurant and Indiana says “here let me go” but the boy holds him back and just shakes his head and Ana goes up to the table where a pretty girl around her age is and kisses her on the lips, and Indie goes “Well then she must be my daughter- she has good taste in woman” and the boy looks bemused and goes “And men” and then they have to fight people and the whole idea of it is Indie isn’t really quite willing to admit to the genes, but the one thing the two get along with is woman so there’s a few laughs (she never brings up the genes again) and also grows to get along with the boy too, whom he believes is hopelessly in love with his daughter, but that she broke up with him (or they never really went out and had like a one-night fling or something) and doesn’t want him so he tries to give the boys pointers about woman to which the boy listens respectfully but gives him a quizical look to which Indie takes to mean self-esteem issues and doubt.
So then they finally arrive and it’s- Steven Speilberg’s wife! and everyone (including Indie) is like “wahhhhhh” and then to further the “wahhhh” moment the to suddenly turns to the girl-presumed-Indie’s-daughter and goes something along the lines of “no matter what happens you know I love you, right?” and she goes “don’t be cheesy, she’s right there, and nothings in the way!” and he says “just in case there’s a trap” looking slightly hurt so then she pulls him back right before he leaves and kisses him and says the same line back and Indie goes “I thought you hated him!” and she goes “then why would I marry him?” and it all turns out that when she said “Dad” sarcastically she meant it sarcastically because he’d be her father-in-law…but theb Marianne shows up too and he’s slightly afraid (cause you know, what if they BOTH were his children?! type thing) but of course that’s not it, but the two woman started a bar chain on their own (with a name that somehow mocks their ex-love intrest) and Indie realizes that while spending time with the girl he thought if as his daughter he realized how much he missed Marianne and she tells him Steven Spealiberg’s wife is married (abd maybe makes an inside joke refrencing theur children or one of his movies) and he says “good-cause its you I missed” and they kiss and then pandora’s box looks like its about to be opened in the background but te boy (who is Indie’s son of course) yells stop and shoots the swords guy before he opens it. andthen Indie and Maruane go back to making out and that’s the end.
I love all the comments about him being too old when the movie hasn’t even been made. Who are you to judge? You aren’t. Lighten up, either you want Indy 4 or you don’t; if you have something against people older than you, well, that’s your problem.
Ya know, looked at all the comments about Harrison Fords age …… hmmmmm we are all getting older you know… the baby boomers blah, blah. Sean Connery and Gene Hackman are both in their 70’s … so everyone who is worried about his age look at yourselves. I think he is cool. But agree he needs a side kick.
Men get distinguished, women get old.. Harrison makes a good character to watch. Having distinction is what makes it interesting to watch on screen.
LISTEN, HARRISON FORD IS A WONDERFULL ACTOR. I. JONES WERE FANTASTIC MOVIE’s. I DONT CARE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE, IM GOING NO MATTER WHAT. AND HE IS ONE OF VERY FEW PEOPLE I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO MEET.
I second Eric Bana in the movie! He can play a student of Indie in the University yearning for adventure..maybe some ancient relic in the middle east or the Himalayas? And crossing through China they’ll need the help of a brainy girl like Michelle Yeoh.
If Indie is going to have a son to have and adventure with..some long lost product of his relationship with Marion…Brendan Fraser would be perfect. Give it a little comic relief and he allready has the action/adventure moves down!
As much as I LOVE and ADORE Bredan Fraiser! ( I do – he is wonderful- hilarious – gorgeous.. ok don’t get me started..) I don’t think he should do Indiana 4 – he has his one Action Hero Series with the Mummy stories.
But I do think there would be a possible SON/DAUGHTER with (well) any of the chicks he um romanced?( in lack of a better word.. ) in one of the other Indy movies.
And No, Harrison is not to old.. bet ya he can whooop us all