Harrison Ford’s New Movie
Harrison Ford will star and produce drama “Crowley,” which Tom Vaughan is in negotiations to direct for the big screen.
Film is based on the true story of John and Aileen Crowley, whose two children had a rare genetic disorder. Rather than give up hope that nothing could help his children, John Crowley found a researcher (Harrison Ford) with a potential cure.
Robert Nelson Jacobs wrote the screenplay, which was inspired by a Wall Street Journal article and subsequent book, “The Cure,” by Geeta Anand.
George Lucas on Indiana Jones 5!
Fox News caught up with George Lucas at the Cannes Film Festival who revealed there’s more than a strong possibility there will be a fifth “Indiana Jones” movie.
He says that he and director Steven Spielberg have left the door open for a sequel to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
“I haven’t even told Steven or Harrison this,” he told. “But I have an idea to make Shia LaBeouf the lead character next time and have Harrison Ford come back like Sean Connery did in the last movie. I can see it working out.
“And it’s not like Harrison is even old. I mean, he’s 65 and he did everything in this movie. The old chemistry is there, and it’s not like he’s an old man. He’s incredibly agile; he looks even better than he did 20 years ago, if you ask me.”
Lucas says he’s not concerned about early mixed buzz on “Crystal Skull.”
“This movie is the exact same experience as the other three were. The difference is, the novelty of discovery is gone. I get worried when I hear fans say they’re expecting something different that will change their lives. This is ‘Indiana Jones’ just as you remember him.”
“But these movies, the ‘Indiana Jones’ ones, were never big hits right away. They were always slow starters that built up to big numbers,” Lucas said.
‘Indiana Jones 4′ - The Old Magic Still Works - Cannes 2008
Earlier today, the world’s press in Cannes finally got to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Here is a summary of the critical reaction:
Anne Thompson of Variety sets the scene outside the screening and says the film is ‘good enough’ and ‘fun’:
”Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had its world premiere at Cannes at 1 PM May 18; the press anxiously streamed into the Lumiere early, afraid they would be shut out-and many were.
There were whoos and whistles before the screening started.The movie unspooled without the usual Cannes logo. The first hour plays like gangbusters and is really fun.
Harrison Ford has Indy down, even as a grizzled “gramps” dealing affectionately with Shia LaBeouf as a 60s greaser with a pompadour.
The movie will do blockbuster boxoffice, and whatever critical brickbats are still to come…”
Her Variety colleague Todd McCarthy says it ‘delivers the goods’:
”One of the most eagerly and long-awaited series follow-ups in screen history delivers the goods, not those of the still first-rate original, 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” but those of its uneven two successors.
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” begins with an actual big bang, then gradually slides toward a ho-hum midsection before literally taking off for an uplifting finish.”
Karen Allen Interview - June Issue of ‘More’ magazine
She was the first crush of a million boys, the spunky role model for a generation of girls. As Marion Ravenwood, the game-for-anything heroine of 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, Karen Allen threw punches, drank burly men under the table and even managed to look good in a fussy white dress with a big flower on her backside.
On May 22nd, at 56, she’s reprising her iconic role in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. She’ll also be on the June cover of ‘More‘, on newsstands May 20th, discussing what she’s been up to since her first turn at Marion, what it’s like to do an action movie at 56 and more.
These are excerpts from the June issue of ‘More’:
“What’s funny is that his [Steven Spielberg] wife, Kate Capshaw, had just bought a lot of my knitwear for Christmas presents. I though he was going to tell me he loved the presents! He said, ‘Haven’t you been watching television? We’re doing another film, and you’re in it.’ And it wasn’t a cameo, it was a big, beautiful part and I was jumping up and down,” Karen said.
”On the first day of filming, she and Ford, who turned 65 during the shoot, had to leap from the back of a moving truck into its cab. “Harrison and I were laughing in between takes, saying ‘Here we go again.’ It just felt really seamless.”
“Now, we’ve all grown up, we all have kids: Steven has seven children; Harrison has several families. As a younger actor, I had a harder time enjoying the process. I was so serious about it all, there was more ego involved. I’d never worked on big action things where you spend you entire day navigating through snakes or having corpses fall on your head, and I was overwhelmed.”
“Karen has this sort of girlish streak to her, even as a mature woman. And yet it’s not a coy thing. It’s not a weak thing. She has a sense of adventure,” Harrison Ford noticed.
On the first day of filming, “there I was in a fedora and a leather jacket and she showed up up looking like the Karen of old. Or of young.”
Read more in the June issue of ‘More‘
Karen Allen thrilled to be in ‘Indiana Jones 4′
Karen Allen has revealed that she is thrilled to be reprising her role as Marion Ravenwood in the new Indiana Jones movie.
The actress, who is now a fashion designer, said she had no idea that she would be returning to the franchise until director Steven Spielberg called her last year.
She told “There had been a rumour for many, many years that they were trying to find a script everybody was going to be happy with.
Allen played Indy’s (Harrison Ford) love interest in first instalment Raiders Of The Lost Ark in 1981, but did not feature in its two sequels.
Talking about the storyline for the new movie, she said:
“As the film begins, they haven’t seen each other for a long time, and suddenly, they’re thrust back together. They kind of pick up from where they left off. A few bumpy roads have passed between them since then that they have to work out with each other.”
The 50-year-old refused to confirm speculation that Shia LaBeouf’s character is Indy and Marion’s love child, saying: “You’ll have to wait and see.”
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens worldwide on May 22.
‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ full-length trailer
Paramount Picture has unveiled yet a second full-length trailer for the long-awaited adventure film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which comes to theaters May 22nd.
Steven Spielberg says that the film will feature all of Jones’ former babes in various cameo roles including Karen Allen and other Indy girls who had smaller roles. It is still up in the air whether or not Kate Capshaw, Spielberg’s wife, will make an appearance.
The film is set in the early ’50s.
Indiana Jones 4 - Three New Banners
And here we are again with ‘Indy 4‘ banners with the main characters, the famous Harrison Ford, of course, in the role of Indiana Jones, Shia LaBeouf as Mutt Williams and finally Cate Blanchett, as bad agent Irina Spalko.
