I'm starting to hate those guys 10 Oct, 2007 / Comments: 12
I know it's not strictly game related, but honestly, does anyone care when the subject is Indiana Jones? Well, it's sort of game-related, too.
You see, several different websites are reporting the confirmation that Steven Spielberg gave today that them pesky Russians will be replacing the Nazis in the upcoming Indy KOCS, aka Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Much like they did (as you remember, right?) in the very-good-well-I-liked-it-nuts-to-you-guys Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. This news has been pretty much guessed before, but this is the first time it's actually been confirmed by The Directing Beard himself.
Spielberg also suggests that The Producing Beard (for his own anonymity we'll refer to him as GL, and that's Mr. Star Wars and not Green Lantern) is once again causing trouble by trying to get Spielberg to start using digital cameras rather than film-based ones. Spielberg is holding out so far against his nagging spouse. Spielberg says that if it worked for directors before him, then it's good enough for Indy IV.
In other more exciting news, the Futurama movie trailer is now up on YouTube and is hilarious. What's that got to do with us? Well, um... Frank Welker does the voice of Nibbler and he played Megatron in the game version of Transformers which was made by Traveller's Tales who made Lego Star Wars. And he played some characters in Knights of the Old Republic 2. Look for god's sake, it's new Futurama, do I need a reason to be excited and start abusing my power here? Gimme a break guys!
Update: apparently those jerks in Fox can't take a joke, so the trailer's been pulled. Those jerks. Hey... is that a Fox Lawyer coming towards me rig-
Update2: Just managed to get away and find another YouTube link. Enjoy again!
Futurama...better than The Simpsons when it had it's TV run. Been excited for the movies since the moment they were rumored, so I can't believe the first one is a month away!
Also, there's really no reason to treat IndyIV as off-topic on Mojo. In fact it's probably the only thing that would still fit in our "LucasFilm" category if we hadn't changed it to "Film and TV." (Barring a sequel to Willow or Howard the Duck of course.) Mojo used to cover the production of the freaking Star Wars prequels, so I'll be damned if Indiana Jones doesn't slide.
I think GL has been cramping Spielberg's style a bit... wasn't he the one who got rid of that screenplay that might have been really good, maybe? And Spielberg's done heaps of great films, whilst GL...
I like the idea of them sticking with traditional film. And a Drew Struzan poster. And a new John Williams score. Excited? Very.
I also like Futurama.
Lucas wasn't responsible for most of the crap that Spielberg has pumped out in his lifetime. And now he's even had the temerity to jump ship to WETA for the Tintin movies. Lucas and Peter Jackson are the two big honchos now in the 'director who also plays around with emerging technology' field, and Spielberg is using them both to ruin yet more IP.
I love Tintin :~
But seriously, say what you will about Star Wars but it's a great series of movies. So is Indiana Jones, which Lucas didn't write or direct but without him the series probably wouldn't exist.
I can forgive the new-trilogy stuff to some extent because the films did what they were supposed to and entertained me. But throw as many Jaws and Schindler's Lists at me as you want and they won't make up for any of that Twilight Zone stuff. And people died horrifically for that movie.