Shia LaBeouf Fuels Fanboy Rage with ‘Indiana Jones 5′ Talk

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 16, 2009

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To be fair, there is actually no ‘fanboy rage’ yet, but be sure that it is coming folks. In an interview with BBC News, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Shia LaBeouf made claims that director Steven Spielberg is already hard at work on a follow-up to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

“Steven [Spielberg] just said that he cracked the story on it before I left and I think they’re gearing that up.”

While I would urge you not to put too much stock into what Shia thinks is happening with the Indiana Jones franchise, it also does raise some cause for concern. Somewhere in Hollywood people are talking seriously about another sequel. So seriously that it has the franchise’s young, promising star all jazzed about it. So jazzed that he’s talking openly about it during a time when it seems as if everyone else is occupied with other things. Spielberg is off making a pair of Tintin films with Peter Jackson, Harrison Ford is off enjoying being Harrison Ford (or so we hope) and Shia is currently riding high on the Transformers train, which has him heading toward a sequel of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street.

On the topic of Wall Street, LaBeouf also mentioned that the Oliver Stone directed sequel will be titled Money Never Sleeps.

[via Coming Soon]

Feel free to analyze that last statement, among others, in the comment area below…


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  • Yuk
  • I'm excited about this!!!
  • Bob Saget
    I do not want another Indiana Jones movie, but I'm not going to be like most people and sh&& all over Shia Labeouf. The last Indy movie was downright horrible but I blame everyone but the actors for that. Spielberg and Lucas are the ones to blame and I will still never forgive them for it. But I also don't think we can assume if another movie happened it would be terrible. I love the Indiana Jones franchise but lets all be realistic here, Temple of Doom was a horrible movie. So it's not like we had a holy trinity of greatness before Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out. Who knows maybe the 5th movie will redeem the franchise. But for now I'll just assume it's not happening until it's greenlit. Then I'll start worrying.
  • Chris
    Enough LaBeouf! Big fan of the Indy trilogy, but KotCS was a disaster. I don't put much of the blame on that doofus Shia, it largely falls on the shoulders of Lucas and Spielberg for OKing that awful script.
  • clayton
    I really enjoyed KotCS, which might be a minority opinion in the world of fandom - but it was good, though far from great. But I fully believe that the problems the movie did have fall directly on the shoulders of Spielberg. A lot of people seem to want to blame Lucas (residual Star Wars prequel hate?), but I loved his ideas for the movie -- moving it from '30s action serials to '50s B-movie sci-fi, swapping Nazis for Commies, etc.. The problem was the script and the direction. Spielberg just didn't seem to really have his heart in it, and the movie suffered because of it.
  • J.T.
    Spielberg's heart wasn't in it because he was forced to do a lot of things he didn't WANT to do. Lucas had too much control, and the groan-worthy parts in the film were the result of Lucas not backing off.
  • clayton
    Well, Lucas definitely pushed his ideas into the various scripts and didn't really budge on them -- the Indy franchise is his baby, after all. But once the script was agreed on by all parties, Lucas steps aside and lets Spielberg do his thing. So, yeah - everybody loves to blame Lucas for shit, but Spielberg was the director and he was the one ultimately responsible for the overall quality of the movie. But nice try.
  • I might be (am) in the minority but i just don't like Shia. He is a complete tool off-screen and it hurts what he can do on screen. I think the is too nerdy for me to really jive with. Not sure how he became such a mega-star but directors seem to love the kid. Just MHO.
    The Rake
    http://thefilmnest.com
  • I might be (am) in the minority but i just don't like Shia. He is a complete tool off-screen and it hurts what he can do on screen. I think the is too nerdy for me to really jive with. Not sure how he became such a mega-star but directors seem to love the kid. Just MHO.
    The Rake
    http://thefilmnest.com
  • Indiana Jones is now like Star Wars to me. This last movie fucked it up so bad for me I don't care what they do, it'll be hard to bring me back in full swing.

    But, the world owes KotCS a huge deal of gratitude because it made me so mad that I came up with "10 Things I Hated, 5 I Didn't" on the spot.
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