They could've just done this
>"Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" takes audiences on a thrilling adventure with the iconic archaeologist Indiana Jones, played by Chris Pratt. The film seamlessly transitions between two time periods, beginning with an elder Indy, portrayed by Harrison Ford, captivating a class of eager students with his tales of Atlantis.
>As the scene shifts to a younger Indiana Jones, we find him teaching a class about the hypothetical existence of Atlantis. Inspired by the legends and theories surrounding the lost city, Indy embarks on a personal mission to uncover the truth behind this ancient enigma.
Wouldn't work. Pratt looks like nothing like Ford BUT if they wanted Pratt to take over the mantel and then an old Indy showing up halfway through to show the new kid the ropes then i'd be willing to see that.
>Pratt looks like nothing like Ford
Doesn't have to. They could have turned Jones into America's James Bond, consistently recasting and treating him as the same guy for a new generation, but nope.
That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever read. Only morons want another soulless zombie franchise
Indiana Jones is a franchise already, but it could have been good. There were better James Bonds after Connery, believe it or not
Pratt or any other actor couldn’t get the mannerisms that Ford brought to the character. Pratt wouldn’t play Indiana Jones, he would just play star lord with a fedora and whip. Why does it have to be Indiana Jones, why can’t they just make an original adventure movie in a similar vein to Pirates of the Caribbean, the Mummy, or National Treasure?
>an original adventure movie in a similar vein to Pirates of the Caribbean
thats based on a ride
>the Mummy
thats based on earlier movies
>National Treasure
thats based on indiana joooh i see what you did there
its actually smart. MUCH smarter than casting 92 year old harrison ford
Yeah but thats why you need Harrison to show up one last time and hand the mantle off. Not like in Star Trek where kirk dies though. More of like a Bruce Wayne in Batman beyond type of deal.
That's probably what they should have done. Indiana Jones as a franchise should just be "adventures in the 1930's, during the crazy era of archaeology, when the world out there still seemed alien and mysterious". It should not be about following an increasingly old guy who used to be that guy.
The Mummy movies with Brendan Fraiser are basically more "real" Indiana Jones movies than the last two Indiana Jones movies. You could literally just call that first one Indiana Jones and the Mummy's Curse, and people would have gone "yeah, sure. That makes sense".
The Mummy (Brendan movies only) as a franchise now has a better bad:good ratio than Indiana Jones.
Let that sink in.
...OH GOD IMAGINE BRENDAN AS INDY!
I mean, he played Indy more or less. Those are just Indiana Jones movies carrying the branding of some horror movies from the 30's, that they have very little to do with.
Had he not gotten molested by some fat heeb in his prime they could have ran with him as a protege of Indiana Jones. Obviously not as his mummy character but his energy.
They probably can't really do proper Indy anymore cause the movies are inherently colonialist when he's not punching nazis. The nazis are a cheap plot device to make his actions seem justified because the nazis ARE BAD and Indy is just trying to get the artifacts FROM THE NAZIS.
Yeah, but in an ideal timeline.
>an old Indy showing up halfway through to show the new kid the ropes
that's even worse than chris pratt taking over
No it's not. Christ Pratt goes looking for Indy and bumbles his way through part of the movie before Indy shows up, kicks ass and does things the Jones way.
Chris Pratt would work but homosexuals are so butthurt they need Shia "i've been raped but he will not divide us" Lebeouf.
Skull fricking sucked.
>Christ Pratt goes looking for Indy and bumbles his way through part of the movie before Indy shows up, kicks ass and does things the Jones way
you just keep making it worse
What do you come up with then? Your the moron who shits on everyone's ideas but so fricking stupid you can't come up with anything yourself except
>Bring back Lebeouf.
but that’s not diverse and white men might like it?
i’m confused, how do we destroy america with this movie?
>archaeologist Indiana Jones, played by Chris Pratt.
Actually a terrible idea, kys OP
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
>Indiana Jones seeks to discover the lost city of Atlantis, however when he gets there he finds out one man, Milo Thatch, has repopulated the city by marrying over two hundred Atlantean women
>Chris Pratt
Dumb esl poster
>when you get that contraption working and you have more orichalcum than you can use
What kind of fate tho? Action fate, puzzle fate, or a balanace of action and puzzle fate?
Movie would obviously follow the Sophia path with bits from the solo puzzle and action thrown in.
Pratt has none of the charisma of Ford and there's not a single modern director who even approaches the level of skill Spielberg has who would make an Indiana Jones movie. Sometimes it's best just to let things die.
No. No Chris Pratt. Frick off. Should have been Shia, with his own young son filling the Short Round type role, and grandpa Indy tagging along.
That could actually be fun, only good idea in this whole thread.
If they wanted to use Nazis for the villains again like a crutch, they should have done something like "Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth"
>Hyporborean Indiana Jones
goddamn you Kathleen Kennedy you robbed us of this kino
Maybe someday we'll get it if the technology improves and Harrison Ford just needs to do voice work and give his likeness.
Hell, at this point I would have taken Shia as Henry Jones III and had him continue.
You realize Harrison Ford is one bad fall or a few years away from death, right?
Yeah, which is why they shouldn't of had him as the lead. They should have pulled a The Last Crusade and had Indiana Jones go missing after Mutt and him aren't on equal terms, and Mutt has to figure out where he is, and Harrison Ford shows up 1/3rd or halfway through the film.
I think the decision to axe Mutt was a calculated one. Like, execs had data to strongly suggest he was not well liked by audiences. So they got rid of that character I agree that I like the actor and character but I also see the merit in not going down a path that most movie goers will not appreciate.
That being said, there is always the chance that the Mutt being dead thing is just a fakeout. Does Indy ever say he saw his son's dead body, or was he only told he died? Could be some kino in a 6th film when he comes back.
They axed him because Shia is a fricking schizo, they don't give a shit about what the audience likes or doesn't like.
They could've recasted Mutt who would've been older now.
That would unironically be the best course of action for the film.
Don't even market the film as an "Indiana Jones" movie, but cast Shia and market it as a period piece Vietnam war POW escape film, but instead of it actually being the Vietcong, just have them be some Vietnamese grave robbing faction and Mutt was captured by them trying to stop them from raiding some tomb while he was still on duty during the war.
This. How do you have all those Nazis in Antarctica conspiracy theories and not build around that? You could even tease aliums with that. Time travel and multiverse are already played out and boring. I don't want or need a multiverse/time travel version of each franchise. Maybe once in goodwill after some more grounded adventures but not right after crystal skull. Each subsequent film doesn't have to keep raising the stakes and getting more fantastical until everything is overly melodramatic.
>movie 1: indy goes on adventure for artifact in lost civilization
>movie 2: aliums
movie 3: time travel
movie 4: WTF Indy is fighting Nazis in the ISS
movie 5: time travel and multiverse
movie 6: WOW Indy is quipping with the Avengers
The Nazis thing is kind of weird because didn't Hitler think all this occult stuff was gay?
no, hitler loved the occult shit
>The film seamlessly transitions between two time periods, beginning with an elder Indy, portrayed by Harrison Ford, captivating a class of eager students with his tales of Atlantis.
Ford would've never agreed to playing second fiddle in an Indy film.
So just reset the series the exact same way they did with raiders of the lost ark. Just recast and rename the main character. Start a new adventure about a different character that’s basically the same character.
Sounds good but use that Anthony Ingruber guy
He's an atrociously bad actor.
Chris Pratt is so unbelievable as young Indy... Either you deage Harrison OR completely scrap it. Have him killed off or bring back Shia
this is just the plot to disney's atlantis.
Indiana Jones is a product of its time.
Made under the nostalgia for adventure serials, with 1980s grit and special effects. Indiana Jones never worked in modern times the same way American Graffiti 2 is a moronic piece of shit. It was lightning in a bottle and cannot be made fresh with modern hands.
I'm still pissed that we never got a slightly older Indiana Jones movie made during the 90's where Indiana deals with shit on American soul after WWII ended. With all the interesting things dealing with Native Americans and all the various artifacts we could have seen, the closest we ever got with in Young Indiana Jones
The hollow earth novel has him spelunking in a cave with messed up gravity filled with Native American artifacts.
KK can burn in fricking hell. I can't believe we never got that kino
>Native American artifacts
What, like George Washington's wooden teeth and Jefferson's swivel chair?
A bunch of gold bars, conquistador gear, coins, and couple and various other religious artifacts.
Do we actually know if Washington is in that sarcophagus? Makes you think.
Old Indiana gaylord goes to Atlantis. Atlantis copys his DNA and creates Chris Pratt Indiana jones. They both fight but then become friends while trying to escape Atlantis auto self destructing itself. It’s essentially a 2 hour homage to Raiders, with the cool intro badass scene we get with Indiana jones.
>Old Indiana gaylord goes to Atlantis. Atlantis copys his DNA and creates Chris Pratt Indiana jones. They both fight but then become friends while trying to escape Atlantis auto self destructing itself. It’s essentially a 2 hour homage to Raiders, with the cool intro badass scene we get with Indiana jones.
These script ideas somehow get worse and worse in this thread
Give us a better idea. That’s right b***h you can’t.
I posted on above without even knowing there was a novel about it. Hollow Earth
>Nazis as villains
>Arctic setting
>Hyperborea
>Ancient Antarctic ruins
>Set in the 60's
>Leads to Argentina where the Nazi link is discovered
Would have been an easy win if they didn't kill off Henry Jones III and make Indiana an alcoholic old grouch of a man, who isn't even a professor at Marshall College in CT, but instead some shitty college in NYC where the kids don't even pay attention to him
Iron sky was garbage.
Iron Sky was shit because they made it an ironic self-aware comedy. I really wanted a movie about moon Nazi invading Earth played straight and got DUDE MELANIN LMAO instead. Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku is a better version of it and that's about fricking mahjong
no
>the iconic archaeologist Indiana Jones, played by Chris Pratt
lmao frick off
This is more like what they should have done.
Aliens and Time Travel don't belong in an Indiana Jones movie.
Never understood while they insist that Indy can only be played by harrison ford. James Bond has been played by half a dozen different actors and it was never a problem. They could've done a well-written (haha yeah right) reboot trilogy with a new actor but no, instead they dragged grandpa ford from the crypt, who couldn't give less than a shit, and made a shitty grandpa adventure movie. However, the shit cake wasn't complete without the time travel shit cherry on top of course. How utterly embarrassing and tone deaf.
this. it's mind boggling how theyre insisting to stick with 92 year old harrison. it's not a good creative choice, nor is it making them money.
i. dont. get. it.
they should have just made it fully animated as an action cartoon
Why would I watch this trash when I can just play the real deal?
>There's a universe where instead of Jurassic Park, Spielberg filmed Fate of Atlantis in 1994 with a young Gillian Anderson as Dr Sophia Hapgood and the groundbreaking ILM CG effects were used instead to animate the Atlantean God Colossus