| Ford: "Indy 4" Script Ready [message #243415] |
So, 02 April 2006 04:39 |
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Yahoo! News
Ford: "Indy 4" Script Ready
By Allan Williams
06-04-01 1:16 AM ET
Looks like Harrison Ford can finally take the fedora out of mothballs.
Recently the Hollywood megastar told a German magazine that after
rewrites too numerous to count, he and director Steven Spielberg are
finally satisfied with the script for the forever-in-the-works fourth
installment of the whip-wielding, tomb-raiding adventurer.
"Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I
believe that we can start with the filming soon," Ford was quoted as
saying in an interview with Fit for Fun, a German lifestyle and
entertainment magazine.
The 63-year-old actor indicated he was ready to get back into the swing
of things, adding that he needed "to do a little practicing with the
whip" to avoid injuries.
At the Empire Awards in London, George Lucas' producing partner Rick
McCallum said Lucas had made his final tweaks to a script by Jeff
Nathanson (Rush Hour and Catch Me If You Can) and handed it off for
final tweaking.
In an interview with The TOMB [Time Out Movie Blog] Ford
explained,"Indiana Jones is going to be older. And the story will
therefore take place in a different historical period of time. We are
not going back to World War II and the Nazis."
Indy 4's working title, Indiana Jones and the Ark of Noah, is based on
Rob MacGregor's 1992 Bantam novel, Indiana Jones and the Genesis
Deluge, in which a wild-eyed Russian doctor, Vladimir Zobolotsky,
recruits Indy for an expedition to search for Noah's Ark. Trouble
erupts soon after the pair set out for Istanbul and then Mount Ararat,
fabled location of the Ark. Kremlin agents, Sicilian "enforcers," and
Turkish bandits all attempt to bar Vladimir and Indiana from the
archaeological find of the century.
Spielberg's publicist, Marvin Levy, confirmed as much to E! Online, but
denied an earlier report that Spielberg was considering taking a year
off after doing War of the Worlds and Munich back to back. He said the
two-time Oscar winner is working not only on getting Indy 4 off the
ground, but also Lincoln, his upcoming biopic on Abraham Lincoln that
will reunite him with his Schindler's List star, Liam Neeson.
It's been a slow, tortuous march to production since the project was
officially announced in January 2002. The trio brought in
Oscar-nominated writer-director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank
Redemption, The Green Mile) to take a crack at writing a story about
the aging archaeologist, but Lucas vetoed the draft, putting Indy 4 on
hold indefinitely until Nathanson found an angle that pleased the
principals.
By the time Indy 4 does get rolling--this year or next--Ford will have
turned 64 and will probably be 65 by the time Paramount releases the
movie in theaters. The actor is next set to play Colonel Everton
Conger, the man who tracked down Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John
Wilkes Booth, in Manhunt, which starts filming this month.
Copyright =A9 2006 E! Online, Inc.
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| Re: "Indy 4" Script Ready [message #245170 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 21:41 |
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<dabuckna [at] direct.ca> wrote in message
news:1143945561.152052.285510 [at] i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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>Yahoo! News
>Ford: "Indy 4" Script Ready
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>By Allan Williams
>06-04-01 1:16 AM ET
^^^^^^^^
Just me being suspiscious because of the date? ;-)
However, a quick search show that the story, and several related ones,
have been published in the last few days.
>Looks like Harrison Ford can finally take the fedora out of
>mothballs.
>
>Recently the Hollywood megastar told a German magazine that after
>rewrites too numerous to count, he and director Steven Spielberg are
>finally satisfied with the script for the forever-in-the-works fourth
>installment of the whip-wielding, tomb-raiding adventurer.
>
>"Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like.
>I
>believe that we can start with the filming soon," Ford was quoted as
>saying in an interview with Fit for Fun, a German lifestyle and
>entertainment magazine.
>
<snip rest of article>
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>Copyright © 2006 E! Online, Inc.
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>Copyright © 2006 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
>
Perhaps you should put a link to the article, and not quote the full
article. That is what "copyright" means, you can not re-print a
complete article. However, modest quoting is acceptable.
/KHM
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| Re: "Indy 4" Script Ready [message #249360 ] |
Mo, 24 April 2006 06:33 |
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Off topic a little, but I wonder when Spielberg is going to do The Talisman,
since he bought the rights to the book some 25 years ago.
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