Source: Deadline | Posted By: Dan Geer
When Disney acquired Lucasfilm in a multibillion-dollar deal last year, the company not only gained the rights to produce new Star Wars films, but new Indiana Jones films as well. Now, Deadline has learned that Walt Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures have struck a deal that finally solidifies Disney’s ability to distribute any future films in the Indiana Jones franchise. Read on for more!
Paramount will still retain the right to distribute the first four Indiana Jones films, and will receive “financial rewards” if Disney produces any new Indy films. However, this deal does not necessarily mean new movies have been green-lit. It only means that Disney is definitely interested, and perhaps we are now more likely to get at least one new movie than we were before the deal. Given the fact that Harrrison Ford has also expressed interest in returning to the role, we may see a new film sooner than later.
On the other hand, Disney’s primary focus is Star Wars, and the last Indy film wasn’t very well-received by fans of the franchise (although it was actually well-reviewed critically), so if there is a fifth Indy movie, there has to be a good reason for it to exist plot-wise, and it has to be great. I don’t think anyone expects it to be as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark, but something on the level of The Last Crusade is not entirely out of the realm of possibilty.
And, just as a side note, I’m not one to hate much on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I actually liked it for the most part, and had no problem with the “aliens” like so many others seemed to have had, because they were NOT aliens – at least not how we typically think of them. The film gave us the “real” explanation as to what these beings are, which is that they were more god-like in nature because they existed entirely outside of our plane of existence, and were worshiped. Sounds like an Indiana Jones film to me…
It wasn’t a great film, mind you, but not as bad as people say, and I think many just didn’t understand what they were getting at with the plot. If they did get it, then they just didn’t like the concept and/or had issues with other elements of the film (which I had as well). Whatever the case, the film concluded with a decent resolution to Indy’s life with him marrying Marion. Why not just leave it at that?
