This is typical Lucasfilm. Another production with issues, reshoots, and constant delays, plus a director once again lashing out at fans and calling anyone who has doubts about the film more childish names.
This is typical internet. Most every production has some issues, a few reshoots, possible delays. But the internet in 2022 is, "hey, let's imagine our worst (politically-fueled) fears about an upcoming thing and smear it with rumors and nonsense, just so we can know where to direct our senseless anger."
And the best part is, no refutation is possible, because all parties involved are guilty until proven innocent in the court of social media. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
my friend sent me this. i don't really like it, but some of you might (note: lucas didn't make the last jedi)
I don't think there's any reshoots. There are almost always pickups, which is just a shot here, an insert there, a VFX redo, whatever. Not everything turns into Solo, where the entire movie is basically reshot from scratch (at enormous cost). Let's let Mr. Mangold make his film and then review it when it's actually released. They've still got six months of post to go through. Any huge film like this (I'm guessing it had to have cost $200M+ -- Crystal Skull cost $185 million, which I think makes it the most expensive Spielberg film ever made) has got a lot of moving parts, so rumors start, stories fly, fans go crazy on the internet. The reality is they wrapped the film in February of 2022, so they've been doing about 14 months of post-production... I'm guessing it's a very, very complex film. Harrison Ford shot the TV series 1923 after Dial of Destiny, but it's already on the air. That show was easier to finish than an Indiana Jones movie because it had far fewer visual effects and was a simpler shoot.
The motorcycle with a cannon on its side that fires a net (is that what’s going on?) seems a bit odd, too, but I don’t want to pass judgment on the movie based on a toy!
I collect original trilogy Star Wars merch, including some of the higher end toys. I do like to look at the new stuff at the stores and the toys based on the Sequel Trilogy have always been peg warmers. The stuff sits there for months until it is marked down and then probably sent back to the manufacturer. I am surprised they are even bothering with Indy merch, it has never been a big seller like Star Wars even in the 1980's.
The stuff they released around the time of Crystal Skull was pretty cool. The figures for for Temple of Doom and Last Crusade were nearly impossible to find in stores, and they were pretty good quality. Like you said, Disney can't move Star Wars toys to save their life, so it's likely Indy will be the same.
All the Unmade Indiana Jones Movies That Never Made It to Theaters I saw this article in Collider. There's one the author doesn't know about. In 1995 or '96 a classmate of mine studying screenwriting at USC named Ronnie Christensen was paid $1.2 million for a Indiana Jones spec script. The plot was Indiana Jones discovers in the Garden of Eden (in the arctic). It never made it to the screen.
I don’t think I like this CGI young Indiana Jones business. Just let him be old. Oh well, guess we’ll see how the movie is when it comes out.
‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ becomes one of the most expensive movies ever made at $300 million
I actually had a dream last night that I was watching Indy V, only this one had Mutt returning and teaming up with Indy and it was way more believable than this. I soooo want this to be good but I just don't trust Disney to do right by Dr. Jones. Really hope I'm wrong.
Spotted Toby Jones in the trailer. I wonder if he will be using his real name for the character and there will be another line of: Doctor Jones. Yes. Yes.
