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Lucas: Indy's all up to me
[Posted by David S. Cohen]
The AP has this story about George Lucas and the future of Indiana Jones. Yes, he's still talking about continuing the franchise. Most headlines are about this, which seems to rule out passing the fedora to a new star:
"He is Indiana Jones," Lucas said of (Harrison) Ford. "If Indiana Jones wasn't in it, you'd have to call it 'Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis.' ... "Yeah, it's 'Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis.'"
Very nice. Presumably it was George who decided to call the character Mutt Williams. So was that his way of making sure there wouldn't a the next-generation Indy? Did he know all along there would be no hand-off to Shia LaBeouf?
Then there's this farther down in the story (emphasis added):
"The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea," Lucas said. "And that series is very research-intensive. So we're doing research now to see if we can't come up with another object for him to chase ... hopefully we'll come up with something."
George just seems determined to let everybody know that when it comes to Indy, he is the man. That Spielberg guy? Just a director for hire, I guess.
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I love this line
"no hand-off to Shia LaBeouf?"
Pun intended we assume :)
Posted by: Dublin | August 07, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Actually, Dublin, I was trying to Shia away from hand jokes.
Posted by: David Cohen | August 07, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Never trust a man who has kept the same hairstyle for 40 years, and the same waist size in jeans, over which his paunch bulges ever more fulsomely. Long ago he sold his soul to Mammon, who stripped his mind of original thought as just reward.
Posted by: Bingo | August 07, 2008 at 03:53 PM
Lucas forged my childhood from the fires of his imagination. Today, he exasperates the adult me to no end.
Was gonna try to be funny, but the "same hairstyle" line is tough to beat!
Posted by: Christian Toto | August 07, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Uh, Anne? This is the guy who CREATED "Indiana Jones." Doesn't he have some control over it? It IS up to him. I don't quite get your problem with that. Other than, I suppose, jealousy.
If you really want to get into this, then perhaps you should mention that the STORY comes from Lucas but the MOVIE comes from Spielberg. If "Crystal Skull" disappointed, which it did, that's precisely BECAUSE it was a Steven Spielberg film. The story was the least of its concerns. CGI groundhogs? It was a Steven Spielberg film. Poor pacing? It was a Steven Spielberg film. Mutt swinging through the trees like Tarzan? It was a Steven Spielberg film. While Lucas was getting an entire animation division up and running, it was Spielberg who was botching the latest "Indy" flick, not Lucas.
The story works. The movie doesn't.
Posted by: jt7335 | August 08, 2008 at 07:26 AM
David Cohen's hatred for Lucas is becoming really boring. And, actually, Lucas hired Spielberg to make the Jones films. So Spielberg is Lucas's director for hire. Funny that.
Posted by: Mark | August 08, 2008 at 05:13 PM