Indiana Jones Celebrates Itself

From cinemablend, I’m starting to switch back to the stance I had before Indiana Jones 4 started filming: this movie is never going to be made. In fact, I think at this point they’ve already shot all of the movie they are going to, and in some post-modernistic experiment, the only Indiana Jones 4 that will exist will be the media footage covering the movie that never comes. Why do I think such things? Because of the latest video over at indianajones.com.

Previously they’ve put up videos of Shia LaBeouf talking about Indy as his hero, the first day of filming, and the actual return of Indiana Jones with whip and hat in place. My complaint about the last one was that we barely saw Indy on screen, maybe only 3-5 seconds of Indiana Jones over a two minute video, and that was through a camera monitor or hazed out by the sun. That last video pales in comparison to the newest one. The subject of the new video: the last video. Someone on the production captured international reports as the “Indy Arrives” video made news around the globe. From Brazil to Australia, Spain to Germany, we get to hear different languages talking about the last video, along with footage from that video with news bugs and logos placed over it. For those paying attention: this means there is actually no new footage in this new video. It’s a video put out by the production, kind of celebrating its last video by showing all the coverage it got of itself. How absurd is that? This is the kind of thing I’d expect to go on a DVD as a weird bonus selection or to be shown at a cast wrap party, but to put it on the website as the latest video? How bizarre.

Seriously – now that they’ve got all of this news footage, they don’t need to make a movie, right? There’s proof the movie existed without them ever making it. Now the news footage has replaced the actual project…

Head over to indianajones.com to see the International Compilation Reel of the last production footage shown.