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Harrison Ford to be Indiana Jones once more

Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford may well be donning the hat once more.

According to The Insider, Harrison, who turns 67 later on this month, will play the role of Indy in the fifth film in the series and it is claimed it will be his last performance as the adventurer.

It is claimed filming will not start until next year, and it will not be released before 2011, when the star will be 69.

A source said: “Harrison has kept himself in good shape and could still do a lot of the stunts in the last film.”

The source added: “But it’s obviously not going to get any easier the older he gets. He certainly would never have imagined playing Indiana Jones when he was nearing 70!”

Nothing like an unsubstantiated source! However, this does tie into Shia Labeouf's claim that Steven Spielberg had got a story sorted for the fifth Indy film.

Do you want to see another Indy film? What would you want to see in it?
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Shia talks Indiana Jones 5

While chatting to the BBC about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Shia LaBeouf mentioned news about a certain archaeologist.

"Steven [Spielberg] just said that he cracked a story on it before I left and I think they're gearing that up."

That is pretty much all he says apart from that fact that there are "definitely no special effects in that movie."

I think the last part is in reference to the fact that the Transformers film is chock full of CGI (rather like the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).

This is what you call early days, but it does look as if they are kicking around the idea of a 5th Indiana Jones film. It is sad that this news doesn't thrill me as much as it should do. The most recent film was such a disappointment.

If they do make another I hope the story is great, they cut out silly CGI and actually let Indy solve the mystery instead of some gibbering idiot.

How do you feel about the possibility of a new Indy film? What do you want in it and what don't you want in it?

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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Summit Entertainment snapped up the feature film rights to the book, "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero."

The biography was written by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.

Published in 2006 from Atria Books, the book postulated that Harry Houdini was really a spy for Britain and was also asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II's court in prerevolutionary Russia. In addition to this, the book "portrayed the master escape artist and magician as a debunker of con artists who pretended to be spiritualists, leading to the controversial theory that Houdini's death was caused by the spiritual movement as payback."

The studio is not looking to make a biopic but rather an action thriller featuring a character who is part Indiana Jones and part Sherlock Holmes. Summit hopes to cash in on worldwide recognition of Houdini’s name while potentially launching a franchise.

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Chariots of the Gods - Is an adaption needed or wanted?

Paradox Entertainment has acquired screen rights to the 1968 controversial best-seller"Chariots of the Gods" reports Variety.

Having sold 68 million copies worldwide over the past few decades, Erich von Daniken's book explores evidence that different ancient civilizations were visited by extraterrestrials.

That premise will be turned into a science fiction film. The idea has already formed the basis of various films and television from the "Stargate" franchise to the most recent "Indiana Jones" adventure and we all know how that turned out

Paradox controls the Robert E. Howard estate and is developing a movie version of "Conan" with Millennium Films.

Not sure whether a Chariots of the Gods adaption is a good or a bad thing. It has been around for ages and has been used many times before. At the moment I'm not too excited about the whole thing.

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Indiana John and the Silver Platter

FCT found this cool little fan made film based on the exploits of Indiana Jones

Indiana John and the Silver Platter, made by the Lund Family.

Director Andrew Lund’s flick sports 5-year-old John Lund as the title character, going up against the bad guys (Stephen Lund and Michael Lund) on a very cold, snowy day. There’s a great section of him outrunning an avalanche and the fight scene is a riot. I heartily recommend this one—it’s very silly and a lot of fun.

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Classic 1960's book covers for Highlander, Temple of Doom, Shaun of the Dead and more. Wait a minute...!

Check out the work of Mitch Ansara in his "I Can Read Movies". He has taken 20 films and imagined what their '60s novelization covers may have looked like. All very Saul Bass. I think they are excellent.



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Cool poster redesigns for classic films - The Dark Knight, Die Hard, Deer Hunter, Rain Man, The Great Dictator, Indiana Jones and American History X

I spotted these over on /film and had to share as I think they are brilliant.

21-year old (so young and yet so talented) UK artist Olly Moss has decided to create a series of movie posters reinterperated in a kinda minimalistic post modern German-ism style.



Check out more of his work over on Ollymoss.com

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Happy New Year everyone

A belated Happy New Year to you all (yesterdays posts were all prescheduled as I wasn't near a computer).

Did you all have a good time? Drink too much? Make resolutions that you have already broken.

We had a quiet one. Put our 2 year old daughter to bed then Catherine, my son and I watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (I enjoyed it more seeing it the second time now that the anticipation for it had gone - still full of faults but an enjoyable romp) before turning over to Jools Holland on BBC2 and welcomed in the New Year. Then it was in bed for about 00:15!

I just want to thank everyone who has visited this little site since it started back in the middle of last year. It's been a fun few months since Chisholm said to me, "You should do a film blog and post reviews for us to read." Since then people from all over the World have found it and seem to like it. Big thanks to you all and to all the regulars to the site and the forum. I'm also blown away by the fact I've had a couple of proper interviews with some film makers and an favourite author of mine. Hopefully there will be more interviews to come in this year.

What was your film highlight of 2008? What are you looking forward to in 2009? I can't wait to see Zack Snyder's Watchmen (although I have a horrible feeling the court case will just delay it's release). I also want to see Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire and many other things.

Once again thanks. Now go out and tell a couple of friends about the site. Let's spread the word people.

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The Guardians most ridiculous plots of the year - Spoilers ahoy!

1. The Dark Knight - The Joker's criminal genius
Wait, so the Joker really orchestrated that big truck chase just so that he could get caught and go to prison, then he could kidnap that guard and grab his phone to make the call to set off the bomb he'd previously sewn inside the henchman in the next cell? That would kill the guy who stole the mobsters' money, thus enabling him to … er, what? Heath Ledger's Joker may have been a psychopath, but he had a nerdish capacity for forward planning.

2. Sex And The City - has Big ever used a phone?
OMG Carrie's getting married! Can you believe all the dresses? Can you also believe that Big tries to call her on the day, but some little scamp has run off with her phone? Couldn't he just call Miranda or someone? No, because despite having known them all for 10 years he doesn't have their numbers. Nor is he capable of just getting out of the car and walking in.

3. Iron Man - the cunning getaway
Ha ha! We have kidnapped imperialist weapons dealer Tony Stark. Now let's put him in a cell and force him to build us a missile. We won't need to put guards in with him because we've got these fiendish CCTV cameras. True, it's still possible for him to hide round the corner, but what can go wrong? We'll also overlook those working drawings. Wait a minute! That's not a missile, it's a robo-destruction suit. And now he's in it, killing us all! D'oh!

4. Hancock - immortal and invisible?
What? So there's this one guy on the planet who's been alive, like, forever, and can fly, stop bullets, leap tall buildings, etc, and nobody is the slightest bit curious as to who the hell he is and where he came from? What was he doing during, say, the second world war?

5. Wanted - The Loom of Fate
OK, we can swallow James McAvoy as an action hero. And we'll believe that there's a secret league of assassins who can bend bullets round corners. Even that they were descended from a guild of weavers. But hang on, the Loom of Fate? A mystical apparatus whose woven product has the future of mankind encrypted in its fibres?

6. Indiana Jones - Shia of the Apes
Luckily we've overpowered these Nazis but now they're chasing us down this convenient set of parallel tracks someone has cut through the jungle! Phew, none of us got hurt but where's Shia LaBeouf gone? Thank God (or Spielberg): he's turned into Tarzan. Here he comes swinging through the trees on vines, with a troupe of monkeys.

7. Mamma Mia! - the paternity issue
Which one of these three men could be Sophie's father? If only there was some reliable, scientific way of finding out. She can't get a DNA test, of course, because Abba never wrote a song about that.

8. Man On Wire - don't look down!
A man breaks into the World Trade Centre and walks a tightrope between the towers. Yeah, right.

Source: The Guardian

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If you could get one cool prop from a movie for Christmas, what would you pick?

Christmas is getting closer and geese are getting fatter my thoughts turn to presents, food, Father Christmas and not enought time off work. Obviously the whole point of Christmas is the gifts...and spending times with loved ones...and the birth of some kid back in thay...but mainly it's all about the gifts.

As this is a site dedicated to films (with a bit of comic, music and random stuff thrown in just to keep you guessing) I started wondering what cool item of movie memorabilia would be great to get as a gift this Christmas. You know what I'm talking about. That one piece of magic from a film that you always wish was yours, not replicas, I'm talking about the actual prop from the film (I know, I know, the real prop will more than likely be a sketchy pile of bits that on screen look great but in real life aren't so hot, but you know what I mean) - a proton pack, Indy's Fedora and whip, the actual Maltese Falcon, any piece of melted alien nasty from The Thing, the Spinal Tap Amp that goes all the way to 11, one of Nic Cage's wigs, the Cerebro helmet, that weird table made out of a wagon wheel with a glass top that you see in When Harry Met Sally, Rosebud, any Ray Harryhausen model, Little Geek from the Abyss, John Wayne's spurs, Roddy Piper's sunglasses, you get the idea.

It's not as easy as you think to pick just one thing. However, I can say with great confidence that I would pick the Plymouth Fury from Christine...or maybe the (original) Time Machine...or the Dark Crystal...or the ambulance from Ice Cold in Alex...or Steve McQueen's baseball glove from the Great Escape...Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

If money was no object and you could have whatever prop, costume, vehicle, from any movie what would you pick? Go ahead and click on the comments below and let me know.

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More Nazi Zombie Goodness - Full Trailer for Død Snø (Dead Snow)

A group of friends had all they would need for a successful Easter vacation; cabin, skis, snowmobile, toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them had anticipated not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains surrounding the aptly named Øksfjord had other plans ...

Ein, Zwei, Die!

After a plot description like that you just know this is going to be good. I posted the teaser trailer a while ago but now the full trailer is out. It is not subtitled or dubbed (although it does have an Indiana Jones quote at the 1:04 mark and one of the characters is wearing a Braindead T-Shirt which is cool), but you get to see Nazi Zombies doing what Nazi Zombies do best. The camera work also has a nice feel of the Evil Dead to it, especially in the montage of the kids getting their weapons together.

Looks ace. Will you be going to see it?

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The Random

Yet another Batman casting rumour. Cinema Blend, say that Rhona Mitra is in the frame for the role of Catwoman in Batman 3.

Steve Carell will star in Brigadier Gerard, a period comedy about “a French soldier during the Napoleonic wars who is deluded about his level of bravery.” [THR]

Charles Ross’ One-Man Star Wars Trilogy will be in Baltimore from December 9th to the 21st. [theforce]

Bloody Disgusting has new photos from SAW V.

The official website for Coraline has gone live. [geeksofdoom]

Those of you who see Max Payne this weekend should stay until after the credits. Apparently there is a small clip that teases a sequel. [cinemablend]

"Harrison Ford has officially quashed fears of Shia LaBeouf taking up the lead role mantle in future "Indiana Jones" sequels - "No, that's never been (the idea)... I think it just doesn't work that way. And there's definitely a distinction between passing the fedora and someone picking it up"..." (full details)
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Another Indiana Jones film?

Geoff Boucher of the LA Times blog Hero Complex caught up with the legendary Harrison Ford recently. Apparently George Lucas is already hard at work on coming up with a story for a fifth film. Ford says, "It's crazy but great… George is in think mode right now."

Crystal Skull ended up making $317 million in the USA and $783 million worldwide, which is more than enough to warrant a sequel.

What do you think of this news? Do you want to see another Indy? When should it be set? What artifact should be in it?

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Gremlins vs Batman, The Goonies, The Exorcist & Indiana Jones

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No Mutt? Indiana Jones 5 news

Looks like Georgey boy may have actually listened to the Indy fans for once.

“Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones,” Lucas said, dismissively adding about a character he helped create that, “If it was Mutt Williams it would be ‘Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis’ or something.”

..says Lucas in THIS INTERVIEW over at MTV. In the piece, Lucas also says he's working to find something for Indy & Co. to pursue in a fifth installment.

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Indiana Jones and X-Men Posters by Eric Tan

Just posting these as I think they are amazing. Lovely pieces of art work by Eric Tan (check out his website - a very talented guy).
The Raiders of the Lost Ark poster is up for sale here. Oh to have lots more money to buy stuff like that!

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Lucas Speak about Indy

George Lucas has been interviewed in the Times Online. There he talks about Indy and the difficulty in getting the fourth one made. It is an interesting read. One paragraph stood out and explains a lot (I wonder what we would have got if Spielberg could have been allowed to stick with the past?):

Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that.

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Who Shot First in Raiders of the Lost Ark

First Lucas altered the Han and Greedo shoot out. Now startling footage has just arisen which shows Indy shooting the dude with the sword wasn't as straight forward as first thought. Expect this on no special editions!! Made me chuckle.

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Weekend US Box Office

Here is what's what over in the States. Cheers to Matt. First figure is this weekends take and the second is the gross take. Indy 4 has done incredibly well.

1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) $35.9M $35.9M
2 Hancock (2008) $33M $165M
3 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) $20.6M $20.6M
4 WALL·E (2008) $18.5M $163M
5 Wanted (2008) $11.6M $112M
6 Get Smart (2008) $7.11M $111M
7 Meet Dave (2008) $5.3M $5.3M
8 Kung Fu Panda (2008) $4.3M $202M
9 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) $2.36M $11M
10 Indiana Jones...Crystal Skull (2008) $2.25M $310M