Here's some Indy IV news I can get behind, if you take my meaning:
Sideways star Virginia Madsen so impressed co-star Harrison Ford in new thriller Firewall, she's now the frontrunner to play his love interest in the fourth Indiana Jones adventure. Madsen plays Ford's wife in the new movie and admits they both found an unusual chemistry on set - after the ageing action man handpicked her for the role. And now Madsen is a clear favorite to play the leading lady in Indiana Jones 4. Ford tells movieline.net, "She was an absolute delight - professional, very talented and simply, very sweet. She also took what could have been a fairly one-dimensional damsel in distress role and added so many layers to it - there isn't many who could do that. I'd work with her again in a heartbeat. I'm actually hoping she'll come over for Indiana Jones. We've talked about it."
This wouldn't be bad news, if true. Me likey Virginia Madsen, ever since Candyman and The Hot Spot. She's an underrated actress who sort of got pushed aside after the 1980s. Plus, at 42, she's at least only about 20 years younger than her possible co-star. Beats the almost 30 years between Ford and Anne Heche in Six Days Seven Nights.
Producer George Lucas has said he "hopes" to have a script and a start date for production this year. My curiosity regarding this project has gradually traveled the spectrum from "mild" to "morbid." Are they really going to try and sell the 64 year-old Ford as an action hero? Will he be fighting the Commies? The Atlanteans? HUAC? Will Jet Li play Short Round (HWRNMNBSOL's dream)? Will central casting mistakenly give Amy Irving a part?
Stay tuned, if you aren't tired of being jerked around quite yet.
Still Nazis, I think. #4 will take up where #3 left off after Indy was exposed to secondhand old during the Poor Choice and woke up the next morning decrepit.
The question is, what are the Nazis after this time? Can't be the Necronomicon, Hellboy already did that. Questing beast? Too obscure; Excalibur? Nah, enough Arthurean already. Spear of Longinus? Wait, I know - the Wandering Jew! What a PR coup for the Nazis if they could get him! I can see it now, Indy stows away aboard a gravitomagnetic Nazi long-range bomber (fresh from the History Channel's Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe) packed with Ninja on loan from Hirohito, barrelling a - dashed! no, dot-dashed! - red line across the Atlantic to the Lower East Side where WJ was last sighted; but throwing stars lacerate the saucer-shaped craft's navigation system in the inevitable brawl-in-the-cockpit, leading to a crash landing in Groom Lake, NV!
Stumbling from the wreckage, Indy must dodge a Tyrannosaurus Rex (sucked into 1945 through the experimental GM drive's Von Karman Space-Time Vortex Street) which then gluts itself on ninja, giving our hero time to mount and ride a temporally-and-spatially-displaced moa, hopping from its back onto a speeding luxury train to Chicago just as the apparently endless supply of bomber-disgorged assassins are closing in on their velociraptors!
If it's set in the 50's, I guarantee you that the plot will involve bringing Hitler back. It's unavoidable. And since they've already done the Holy Grail, the only possible candidate is the Spear of Longinus. This means Indy will have to doof around in the newly formed state of Israel, may have a stopover in Masada, and will almost certainly accidentally discover the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Of course the Nazis will get the Spear, and they'll return it to where their evil doctor mastermind is hiding -- in Peru. He'll probably try to bring Hitler back in some remote Inca temple, and it'll be up to Indy (yes, and a fully grown Short Round) to kick ass and take names and do Virginia Madsen, the undeserving bitches.
There, I just saved everybody 8 bucks.
My Indy IV can totally kick your Indy IV's butt. Nazi ninjas on velociraptors at Area 51 vs Incan priests on, what, llamas, at Nazca? Come on.
Don't mess with Llamas. There are more llamas in the Israeli army than Velociraptors.
Hey! It's Princess Irulan!
(Yeah, still haven't bought the Dune DVD)
*sigh*
I was so in love with Harrison Ford, and I just can't deal with him ruining the Indy series by staggering around with his saggy wrinkles and earring. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH