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06Jul2009

'Indy Jones 5' To Film Next Year?

DateMonday, July 6, 2009 at 10:34PM
Some more signs are pointing to a possible fifth Indiana Jones movie as early as 2011. Talk of the cinquel has never gone away from the time the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened last summer. Harrison Ford has been open to donning the fedora another time, and during his Transformers press responsibilities, Shia LaBeouf said that Steven Spielberg had "cracked" the idea for a script.

That doesn't mean very much on its own, because in addition to Spielberg and Ford having their say over a finished script, there's always George Lucas and whatever staff of writers comes together on the story. Let's hope, for the sake of the Indiana Jones legacy, that a quality idea bubbles to the surface pretty soon so that we don't wait too long for an inferior product. Again.

A source tells The Insider (via Worst Previews) that Ford is keeping himself in shape in anticipation of filming the next installment next year. That might seem like a quick turnaround for a movie that would have at least a $150 million budget, but remember, Spielberg made War of the Worlds and Munich in about nine months total, so I think he'd be OK with this.

The question for Spielberg is would he really have the time at all next year to shoot Indy 5? He's not necessarily committed to Lincoln yet, but that's one of three movies he has lined up as a director, to say nothing of all his requirements as a producer and with his post-production on Tintin.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves, though. As they say: Consider the source. Shia LaBeouf is in Transformers, a film distributed by Paramount, and he's in Indiana Jones, which is also a Paramount product, and the news was revealed to The Insider, a CBS/Paramount co-production. So in one fell swoop, a Paramount TV show could boost interest in a long-running franchise and grease its big summer push all at once.

Just sayin'.

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