Indiana Jones and the Casting of Blanchett
Indiana Jones and the Casting of Blanchett
Mar 16Cate (the actress, not my daughter) joins Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones 4.
Unfortunately, thanks to that spoilsport Moriarity, we won’t enjoy nearly as many vicious, mocking, evil fake titles this time around.
Can I just say something? I was listening to Star Wars music in the car the other day, and thinking about what unbridled and awesome fun both Lucas and Spielberg can create at the movies when they are on their respective games, and suddenly, I realized that I very much WANT Indiana Jones 4 to be good. I want what would essentially be one last popcorn movie fling by the modern masters of the genre. I want one more event movie that redefines the idea of “event movie,” packed to the gills with giant silly set pieces and pithy one-liners. I want Harrison Ford to smirk just right, I want Marcus Brody to putter around like an idiot, and I want the Nazis to lose.
Come on, guys. Just be exactly like you were thirty years ago. One more time. Please.
Um. You’re going to have some trouble with Marcus Brody. Denholm Eliott died fifteen years ago (in Ibiza, presumably on spring break). Of course, Spielburg and Lucas have about as much chance of making a good movie as Marcus Brody has a chance of puttering and stuttering like a living human being. And to think I had to tell you that!!! Long Live Indiana Jones and the Puttering Zombie!!!!!!!
two words, steve: CG Brody.
Totally CG Brody.
http://alertnerd.com/blog/archives/397
I stand before you a humiliated man, set against the glow of your cinematic brilliance. Truly, you are in step with the times. May I suggest, perhaps, that Ahmed Best should be signed now and start studying Elliott’s films and movements? (Personally–and I know this is low tech–I’d prefer that they simply explained that Marcus had gotten lost in his own museum years ago and never was heard from again.)
ps. Why is nobody at all (MATT!!!) writing about Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband, Prince Frederic, and his lawsuit against Bill O’Reilly? Defamed because people give him dirty looks at the grocery store??? The Prince, thumping his own melons and pushing his own cart at the Safeway, and Bill O’Reilly is his biggest problem??? This guy is the gift that keeps on giving. I thought he couldn’t do better than buying his title or claiming paternity. This guy ROCKS.