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Phoebe Waller-Bridge may replace Harrison Ford as lead in ‘Indiana Jones’: Report

Phoebe Waller-Bridge could replace Harrison Ford as the lead in the fifth installment of the “Indiana Jones” franchise, which is set to hit theaters next summer.

nypost.com

Rumor: Phoebe Waller-Bridge To Replace Indiana Jones As Female Archaeology Professor

A new rumor claims that actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, known for playing the insufferable L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story, […]

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Is Indiana Jones 5 Setting Up Phoebe Waller-Bridge to Replace Harrison Ford? - Odu News

A new rumor concerning upcoming sequel Indiana Jones 5 is sure to cause some...reactions. According

odu.bz

Has Indiana Jones Found Its Replacement For Harrison Ford?

It's possible that Indy will pass off the fedora in Indiana Jones 5.

www.cinemablend.com

Fortunately as I stay as far away from Hollywood as humanly possible.

 

[RJMacready73]

Don't we already have a Lara Croft?

 

[Lupingosei]

Don't we already have a Lara Croft?

We had Lara Croft, the superrich aristocrat, firing guns at dinosaurs, with the body of a goddess.

They later had Lara Croft, the miserable, sad, everyday girl, armed with a bow and arrows.

Their Lara Croft tanked at the box office and the games did not as well either, so they need a new sacrifice for the woke gods.

 

[jufonuk]

Waiting to see what forms of all this.
If down as she picks up the torch etc or Indy family then cool.
If just a one dimensional perfect character with no development then I expect it to flop.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Depends on the execution as usual, Ford is too old to do action roles so it makes sense that he's being replaced if the series is to continue.

If he gets belittled and deconstructed the whole movie to prop up the female Indy then yeah that the lame way forward for the franchise.

 

[Kilau]

I suppose if they want to keep the series going they have to replace Harrison at some point soon, he’s just too old.

Shia kinda blew up his image and career since crystal skull so that plan is in tatters.

It’s kinda like a female 007 to me, no problem with that but don’t make it Jamie Bond or Dr. Jones is suddenly gender swapped.

 

[T8SC]

/Sarcasm.

 

[poppabk]

I suppose if they want to keep the series going they have to replace Harrison at some point soon, he’s just too old.

Shia kinda blew up his image and career since crystal skull so that plan is in tatters.

It’s kinda like a female 007 to me, no problem with that but don’t make it Jamie Bond or Dr. Jones is suddenly gender swapped.

Yeah, I was gonna say they were setting up Shia to take over, and I'd take pretty much anyone over him.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Fuuuuuu a female indiana jones?

Why not use Shia ?

 

[Lupingosei]

Fuuuuuu a female indiana jones?

Why not use Shia ?

Because he has a dick

 

[Airbus Jr]

Because he has a dick

Serious question why they cant just approach/persuade shia man what happened to him, after crystal skull everything seems to be set in motion for him to continue the franchise

Hes asking too much money or something ?

 

[Lupingosei]

Serious question why they cant just approach/persuade shia man what happened to him, after crystal skull everything seems to be set in motion for him to continue the franchise

Because they don't want him to take over it has to be a woman. I would love to have Shia as the new Indy, but that is not possible in Hollywood in the year 2021.

 

[LordCBH]

Who the fuck asked for this? If someone would replace Harrison I’d rather it be Shia since he was one of the few redeeming qualities of the 4th movie.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

What new film? The series ended with last crusade.

 

[FunkMiller]

I’d have preferred a straight recast of Indy with an unknown, or a present day grandson. Shia would have been horrible, though. But this sounds pretty dogshit too.

 

[ManaByte]

This is all from a British tabloid who took it from a masked neo-nazi YouTube channel and then every clickbait site picked it up.

 

[ManaByte]

Serious question why they cant just approach/persuade shia man what happened to him, after crystal skull everything seems to be set in motion for him to continue the franchise

Hes asking too much money or something ?

Shia torched his career by pissing off Spielberg and Harrison Ford.

Shia LaBeouf regrets Spielberg criticism

Transformers actor claimed they "dropped the ball" with Indiana Jones 4.

www.digitalspy.com

Back in 2010, the actor said that both he and Spielberg "dropped the ball" on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, claiming it didn't live up to the standard set by the rest of the adventure series.

LaBeouf has now told The Hollywood Reporter that he "deeply regrets" his negative comments, which at the time led Harrison Ford to brand him a "f**king idiot".

"[Spielberg] told me there's a time to be a human being and have an opinion, and there's a time to sell cars," he said. "It brought me freedom, but it also killed my spirits because this was a dude I looked up to like a sensei."

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Surely a Woman wielding a Whip in 2021 is counter productive to Woke values?

 

[ManaByte]

Surely a Woman wielding a Whip in 2021 is counter productive to Woke values?

It's also counter productive to the guy who wrote and directed the movie, who also is responsible for 3:10 to Yuma, Logan, and Ford vs Ferrari.

 

[jason10mm]

Eh, never gonna happen. 'Sides, I think the PWB hype train is gonna end when more of her' contributions' to films like NTTD wash out when the films are actually released. Fleabag started strong but ended quite soft, not really sure what else she can use to justify herself. She has all the hallmarks of a flash in the pan flavor of the month type artist.

I'm all down for more globe trotting archeologist adventurers, but Indiana Jones is a very specific type and let's be honest, very few others have had much success other than maybe Rick O'connell and a bit of Lara Croft. We'll see if Uncharted can do it.

 

[Xenon]

Waiting to see what forms of all this.
If down as she picks up the torch etc or Indy family then cool.
If just a one dimensional perfect character with no development then I expect it to flop.

In order for that to happen the people involved would have to respect the original character. Which pretty much sums up the problem with most of these things. The people making it either feel that the old materials flawed for not being diverse or outright hate it as a bygone product of the patriarchy.

The new Ghostbusters seems to be the exception while the previous attempt to remake the series serves as the perfect example of it.

Hearing Kathleen Kennedy is involved in this makes me have very little faith that we're gonna get anything close to a film that respects the original source material.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

This is all from a British tabloid who took it from a masked neo-nazi YouTube channel and then every clickbait site picked it up.

Doomcock? What's Nazi about him? You have real beef with these "outrage" youtubers as you call them.

 

[ManaByte]

Doomcock? What's Nazi about him? You have real beef with these "outrage" youtubers as you call them.

He has another persona that isn't streamed on YouTube due to the Nazi content:

 

[It's all in the wrist]

Serious question why they cant just approach/persuade shia man what happened to him, after crystal skull everything seems to be set in motion for him to continue the franchise

Hes asking too much money or something ?

Google Shia and FKA Twigs (singer, his former girlfriend). That's the issue.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

He has another persona that isn't streamed on YouTube due to the Nazi content:

Wasn't aware of that. You sure its the same guy? Where even can he stream that kind of stuff?

 

[ManaByte]

Wasn't aware of that. You sure its the same guy? Where even can he stream that kind of stuff?

It's on Bitchute.

Video here and people in the comments point out things in the Bitchute videos that prove they're the same guy. Same mannerisms, expressions used, even their video intros used to be the same. I have a friend who said he showed up at some event as both characters once or something but I don't know if that's true.

 

[22•22]

 

[MaestroMike]

I liked shia wish he played ball he should've just gone along with it and cash some big as$ checks and do his independent artistic work on the side

 

[22•22]

Doomcock? What's Nazi about him? You have real beef with these "outrage" youtubers as you call them.

A MASKED NEO NAZI??!!!

Don't we all love this timeline

A masked neo nazi in a Indiana Jones thread you can't make this shit up holy shit

Then again

Life imitating art lol

 

[OmegaSupreme]

It's on Bitchute.

Video here and people in the comments point out things in the Bitchute videos that prove they're the same guy. Same mannerisms, expressions used, even their video intros used to be the same. I have a friend who said he showed up at some event as both characters once or something but I don't know if that's true.

That's a shame if true. I hope Drinker doesn't stream with him anymore. Drinker is the only tuber in that group I watch on the regular.

 

[sol_bad]

I stopped reading the Daily Mail article as soon as Kathleen Kennedy was mentioned.

 

[McCheese]

Harrison can barely even do it himself these days, so I'm fine with them continuing the "Indiana jones universe" with another lead, and I don't really care if it's a man or woman, a man would be compared directly with Ford so I can see perfectly good reasons to cast a woman as the new lead in subsequent films with a decent handover in this one, sure we have a lot of woman-led films now but there is always room for another one if it's decent.

And this "if it's decent" is where I can relate to folks concerns, the problem isn't female leads, the problem is Hollywoods current obsession with strong, infallible female leads who go an entire film without losing a fight, messing up or putting a foot wrong, all in the name of feminism (or something, I don't really understand).

Let's wait for the trailer, if it has ford saving her ass and tutoring her then I'm interested, if however, it has "strong female" saving Ford in some shape or form, despite his whole thing being about being able to escape by himself despite impossible odds, I'm out.

 

[mortal]

Have they considered creating an original character? Crazy idea, I know...

 

[ManaByte]

That's a shame if true. I hope Drinker doesn't stream with him anymore. Drinker is the only tuber in that group I watch on the regular.

Even worse it seems like there are people even in this thread who seem to be ok with it.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Sounds cool on paper, but my expectations are low. The newer Indiana Jones stuff has not been great.

 

[sol_bad]

That's a shame if true. I hope Drinker doesn't stream with him anymore. Drinker is the only tuber in that group I watch on the regular.

*EDIT*
In case it doesn't load at the time stamp on mobile.
19:19.

 

[Lupingosei]

Have they considered creating an original character? Crazy idea, I know...

Yeah, they tried.

It worked when they are relatable and fun, Fast and Furious franchise for example. But they failed each time when they were only defined by their gender, sexuality, or race. Also, it did not work out when they were preachy Mary Sues, Spock's adopted supersister as an example.

Create something new and fun is a lot of work and also demands, that you might be interesting and fun too or at least know what is interesting and fun. But if you are only living inside your Twitter bubble you have to take somebody else's work and add your commentary, politics, or ideology to it.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Sounds cool on paper, but my expectations are low. The newer Indiana Jones stuff has not been great.

That's putting it mildly.

 

[ManaByte]

The above video is a bit better than that (although that one is great too). It's long (45 minutes) but they do side-by-side comparisons and even point out how he'll re-use his Bitchute script and just change certain words for the YouTube videos, and again people in the comments even provide more evidence.

 

[sol_bad]

The above video is a bit better than that (although that one is great too). It's long (45 minutes) but they do side-by-side comparisons and even point out how he'll re-use his Bitchute script and just change certain words for the YouTube videos, and again people in the comments even provide more evidence.

Not sure how it works on mobiles but my link was a time stamp link.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Not sure how it works on mobiles but my link was a time stamp link.

Loaded just fine for me. Sticking with Drinker. I only watched a handful of doomcocks shit anyway. No big loss. Thanks for bringing it forward though.

 

[sol_bad]

Loaded just fine for me. Sticking with Drinker. I only watched a handful of doomcocks shit anyway. No big loss. Thanks for bringing it forward though.

It's not 100% proof of course re them being the same person.

 

[ManaByte]

It's not 100% proof of course re them being the same person.

The longer video is pretty convincing, especially when they compare the voices and how they both pronounce things the same and the near identical nature to the scripts. There some other stuff in the video such as comparing when and how the channels were setup and the production similarities.

 

[Star-Lord]

Eh, never gonna happen.

They said the same about Doctor Who.

 

[ManaByte]

They said the same about Doctor Who.

Harrison Ford is the only Indiana Jones, says 'Indy 5' producer

'We are not going to do the Bond thing.'

ew.com

Marshall was accepting the Producer of the Decade award at CinemaCon, and his conversation about Indy 5 also referred to his work as a producer on the Bourne franchise. “Both in the Jason Bourne series and on Indiana Jones, we are not going to do the Bond thing,” said Marshall. “We think those characters are iconic, and those are the only actors who can play that.”

 

[El Pistolero]

Indiana Jones is a dead IP at this point. Even the previous entry was a huge mistake...

 

[mortal]

Yeah, they tried.

It worked when they are relatable and fun, Fast and Furious franchise for example. But they failed each time when they were only defined by their gender, sexuality, or race. Also, it did not work out when they were preachy Mary Sues, Spock's adopted supersister as an example.

Create something new and fun is a lot of work and also demands, that you might be interesting and fun too or at least know what is interesting and fun. But if you are only living inside your Twitter bubble you have to take somebody else's work and add your commentary, politics, or ideology to it.

That was more of a rhetorical question.

Although I agree, it's still worth pursuing even if that outcome is not guaranteed.
Everyone plays their part well when the priorities are in order and there is a concise vision.
When the priorities are to pander, then of course the results will be questionable, if not outright terrible.

It's not necessarily the politics or commentary that I take issue with tbh, it's really the cynicism that underpins creative decisions like that.
They can go ahead and make their social or political statements, at the very least create an original story or original characters to explore those themes and ideas.

It's like pretending to be bold without taking the same creative risks. Instead they're trying to co-opt the huge cushy fanbase that was built up over years and years with lots of investment and creative risk taken by far more interesting creators. Yet they expect the same level of praise.

Not all of them can be winners, and that's completely fine. That's part of the creative experience.

 

[sol_bad]

Indiana Jones is a dead IP at this point. Even the previous entry was a huge mistake...

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

www.boxofficemojo.com

It's budget was 185 million, it made money. Doesn't seem dead to me.

 

[ManaByte]

Indiana Jones is a dead IP at this point. Even the previous entry was a huge mistake...

Previous entry was still George Lucas and Spielberg. This one is Mangold.

His last two movies:

 

[SJRB]

Fuck it, why not. Indiana Jones is all but dead anyway, run that shit into the ground.