Indiana Jones Rights Raided By Disney

[Metalrocks]

as long lucas cant put his fingers in to the 5th movie and talks about aliens again, then their might be some small chance that the story will not suck.
i still enjoyed cristal skull as such if it werent for the damn aliens. and this was lucas idea in case some dint know. spielberg dint want aliens in it but lucas insisted on it. just he named them differently in hope no one will figure out that it is a stupid alien.

 

[Pyrian]

See, people point to their overwhelmingly successful Avengers run. Yet, these same people ignore or forget what came BEFORE Iron Man 1.

The Hulk. Electra. Daredevil.
Yuck.

There's nothing particularly relevant before Iron Man "1", because that was the very first self-produced Marvel movie and the very first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movies you're citing are Marvel licensees, produced by other companies. You might as well cite X-men or Spiderman movies.

 

[Something Amyss]

Which of those had anything to do with Disney?

Read my post. Figure it out. It's not that hard.
And if you're wondering why I chose to respond this way: I already explicitly stated why.

Your post made no sense in the context of the dude you were quoting.

Care to actually answer the question?

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I dunno, I think it's time to retire the franchise seeing as how Harrison Ford is a bit old for the role... not that'll probably stop Disney, though...

 

[Psychobabble]

*farts the Indiana Jones theme song*

After the last pathetic installment where the living hell would they go with the franchise? Bringing Indy any more into the present would totally destroy any feeling of mystery or nostalgia the franchise has and Ford is too damned old for them to do a prequel. Sure there are competent actors who might be able to take up the character, Josh Brolin springs to mind, but again where would they take the franchise?

 

[Atmos Duality]

Your post made no sense in the context of the dude you were quoting.

Care to actually answer the question?

Read on.

There's nothing particularly relevant before Iron Man "1", because that was the very first self-produced Marvel movie and the very first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movies you're citing are Marvel licensees, produced by other companies. You might as well cite X-men or Spiderman movies.

By far and large, most audiences aren't like us, and don't really care who made what they're watching so much as how much they like what they're watching. "Licensee" or not. What they do remember, is if they see a shit movie based on something easily recognizable.

I think there's a reason Marvel started off their Avengers run by rebooting the Hulk in addition to doing Iron Man 1, despite not having produced the previous Hulk film directly. And I seriously doubt it was just for continuity reasons.

When people talk about how Disney let Marvel do their own thing, it's probably because Marvel Films was doing things right when they were acquired.

And they're only doing things right because they're putting actual effort into making these movies good.
And they're trying real hard to make those movies good to wash away the stigma that previous Marvel franchise films created.

That's my bullshit theory to rationalize why Disney is so bipolar with the creative freedom they give/revoke to their child companies.

Interpret it, dismiss it, do whatever.

It's quite obvious that the only responses I'm going to get are passive-aggressive jabs from people looking to pick fights, so I'm just going to leave it alone after this.

 

[Sarge034]

This is a nowhere story, told by a nowhere magazine. I mean, is that it? It's been months since Disney bought out Lucas Films and now suddenly "Oh, we think they'll announce an Indiana Jones film". There is nothing even remotely new here. They didn't they were going to make a movie, Disney, has in fact, not made any announcements whatsoever on the matter. Maybe it's just icing on the Star Wars cake that they now have full rights to Amusement Park ride designs. Nobody knows and certainly not anyone who's written this story.

This. is. the. Fox. News. low. level. of. Journalism.

I can understand Vanity Fair printing this dribble, but what's it doing on the Escapist?

...? Did you actually read the article or are you just commenting based on the title? Or are you doing other, more nefarious, things? Disney already has the right to Lucas properties. They bought the rights to distribute future movie installments from Paramount.

This. is. the. Fox. News. low. level. of. Journalism. information. gathering.

OT- I love Indy to death and can only hope that the movie get the creative attention they deserve... And that Shia doesn't get the lead role... And JJ Abrams stays the fuck away... And Lucas stays the fuck away. I'm not asking too much, am I?

 

[TallanKhan]

Kill off Shia LaDouche in the opening scene and the fifth movie will be off to a great start.

Seconded! To this day i can't figure out whether his inclusion in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was just an attempt to "appeal to a young demographic" or whether they just wanted to spare Harrison Ford some of the more taxing action scenes. And i can decide which, if the reason, would be the most stupid.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

So... Indiana Jones for Kingdom Hearts III, maybe?

 

[Lo Flying Frying Pan]

So Disney, how are your plans for global conquest coming along? Oh? You've purchased a butt-ton (scientific term) of IP's and now grip them over the heads of our nostalgia like a cudgel. I would hope that we could have a original content and fresh ideas in this time, but wait ... I forgot how easy it is to buy old-ideas and repackage them for the youngsters.

You did good with your approach to Marvel (own it, but leave it well enough alone), but I'm becoming hesitant of one organization owning so many IP's I enjoy. I'm not preaching anything Orwellian, I'm just saying it doesn't take much to ruin a good thing, and Disney has me on pins-and-needles with my nerdy man-god idols or yore ...

 

[Pebkio]

...? Did you actually read the article or are you just commenting based on the title? Or are you doing other, more nefarious, things? Disney already has the right to Lucas properties. They bought the rights to distribute future movie installments from Paramount.

This. is. the. Fox. News. low. level. of. Journalism. information. gathering.

OT- I love Indy to death and can only hope that the movie get the creative attention they deserve... And that Shia doesn't get the lead role... And JJ Abrams stays the fuck away... And Lucas stays the fuck away. I'm not asking too much, am I?

Yeah, okay, I see it now. I had to go Vanity who actually wrote that the deal was with Paramount, but I can see that I was wrong. I mean, I guess I just assumed that, since the deal with Luscas Films was that Disney got all of Lucas' intellectual property that Indiana Jones was already theirs.

Under the terms of the deal, Paramount maintains distribution rights for the original trilogy, plus this other movie called Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, if anyone wants to fess up to that.

Missing from the announcement is any word on a fifth movie in the Jones franchise.

The way that it's written, on the Escapist anyway, made it seem like there was 0 news here. You can't fault me for interpreting it that way. If you were to write this story, would you focus on the lack of announcements or would you focus on how Disney made a deal with Paramount?

 

[Sarge034]

Under the terms of the deal, Paramount maintains distribution rights for the original trilogy, plus this other movie called Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, if anyone wants to fess up to that.

Missing from the announcement is any word on a fifth movie in the Jones franchise.

The way that it's written, on the Escapist anyway, made it seem like there was 0 news here. You can't fault me for interpreting it that way. If you were to write this story, would you focus on the lack of announcements or would you focus on how Disney made a deal with Paramount?

How bout the first sentence in this article?

Disney has bought the distribution and marketing rights for all future movies in the Indiana Jones franchise.

So you're right. I can't fault you for "interpreting it that way". I can fault you for simply not reading.

The added focus on a lack of announcements was to clarify that the rights were purchased but that no official statement of intent was made concerning additional movies. In short, the appearance of a fifth movie is speculation based on Disney buying the rights to distribute a, as of yet, nonexistent movie.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Harrison Ford is getting on, and the franchise had as disappointing a send-off as it could want. Please Disney just leave it be. Expecting prequels.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Expecting prequels...and crossovers!

Indiana Jones fights...I dunno, Robocop or something.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Since when did Disney stand for actively ruining childhoods?

This is a sad day.

 

[marurder]

Just let the franchise die properly. No need for remakes or revisions. In this world of instant gratification I think we need more variety of entertainment, not painful visitations to the old ones.

 

[Something Amyss]

It's quite obvious that the only responses I'm going to get are passive-aggressive jabs from people looking to pick fights, so I'm just going to leave it alone after this.

Consider that your posts may be poorly worded, rather than people are all being passive-aggressive towards you. You got hostile immediately and have done nothing to explain yourself properly since. You still don't answer the base question I asked, no matter how self-evident you believe it to be.

Far from being passive-aggressive, I just wanted an answer to a question you seem to be against answering.