Monday, January 07, 2008

Shia LaBeouf to take over Indiana Jones franchise?


From darkhorizons, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" may well be the film that kicks off a second Indiana Jones trilogy says Jim Windolf in a follow-up piece to his extensive report for Vanity Fair earlier this week.

When Spielberg was asked if this film leaves open room for another one, the director responded with a typical brush off - "Oh, I don't know. I haven't even thought about that. I'm still in the cutting room. I can't even think beyond the next cut."

Producer Frank Marshall is more direct about the possibility - "I don't think so. We're all getting too old. We have to hand the torch to somebody else. I don't know who that's going to be."

This has lead to speculation that Ford will assume a background role as rising star Shia LaBeouf takes the punishment and the glory as an "Indiana Jones, version 2.0--an Indy in black leather for a new generation of adventure-film fans."

3 comments:

Octopunk said...

Okay, I don't hate Shia LaBeouf like I used to, but I think that kind of sucks.

DKC said...

I remember you distinctly talking about how much you hated Shia LaBeouf. Are you over that hating Australia thing too?

Octopunk said...

That comes and goes.

The thing is, I hated LaBeouf because I saw him say "I can't work with this" in an episode of that show Project Greenlight when he was 14 or something. Very few people can say "I can't work with this" and not incite my wrath, and there's definitely an age requirement.

The other thing is, he's getting more and more all over the place, and hatred takes a lot of energy. More than that, he's a decent actor, so what am I going on about?

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