Harrison Ford Wants Indiana Jones Dead!

Harrison Ford Wants Indiana Jones Dead!

In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly this month, the actor acknowledges his desire to see yet another one his iconic characters pass away.

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By nailbiter111 - Jul 14, 2011 10:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: ew.com


Rumors of Dr. Jones’ demise in the next Indiana Jones movie have been greatly exaggerated — at this point, it’s not even certain there will be a fifth Indiana Jones movie. But during an interview in Montana for an EW story on this month’s sci-fi western Cowboys and Aliens, Harrison Ford seemed to enjoy the idea of killing off the iconic character.


“I always want my characters to die,” he told EW. “I thought Han Solo should have died at the end of the last Star Wars movie, just because it seemed right for the character. And I’d be happy to make another Indiana Jones movie — but at this point it’s all just rumors.”

Really Harrison Ford? Really? I'm pretty sure I don't need to see another Indy movie for the rest of my life. One stink bomb, like the last one is enough for me. By the end of that movie, I think most of the audience was hoping Indy and the rest of the cast would be whacked. The mere thought that Indy would pass the baton to Shia, makes me sick.

Let's face facts Indy jumped the shark multiple times: monkey scene, aliens, refrigerator/nuclear bomb, and the ants.

Instead of letting Lucas ruin another franchise, I'd rather pretend Crystal Skulls never existed, and I'll cherish the first three films in the series.
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RABB1T
RABB1T - 7/14/2011, 11:58 PM
Pretty dark there Harrison haha... but it would be a bitter sweet death.
xhex022
xhex022 - 7/15/2011, 12:25 AM
i wanna be in that movie
JackDexx
JackDexx - 7/15/2011, 12:48 AM
for me he died in the fourth
BatmanIsBaddest
BatmanIsBaddest - 7/15/2011, 1:46 AM


"Indy 4" was not a failure. Indy didn't "jump the shark"/"nuke the fridge" or whatever else you wanna say about it. Listen, George Lucas is a hit-or-miss-creative kind of guy. I don't deny that. I can't stand to watch "STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS", not because that it is *bad* but because it wasn't what I desperately wanted it to be. That was the case with "Indy 4". Everybody wanted the movie to be a certain way and some people, like most of you guys I see, were disappointed by what was actually there. To be disappointed by something is one thing, but to hate on something for no other reason than because you were disappointed by it is another.

I couldn't have been more pleased with what they did with the fourth movie, mostly because I did not have a preconceived notion of what it "should" be. I was happy to have one of my childhood heroes finally make it back to the big screen, but like most of you I'm sure when I heard all the talk of "acient alien" stuff being a part of it I was a bit skeptical. Never did the film lose my interest or affections. Maybe I'm just more sentimental than everyone else, but "Indy 4"'s "aliens" is no more ridiculous than demons popping out of a "holy" relic, or a man with an "intangible hand" that can reach in your chest and pull your heart out, or people turning to dust because they take a sip of water out of the wrong cup. It's just a brief venture into another aspect of the paranormal, as all the Indiana Jones movies were.

It made perfect sense why they would have the "ancient aliens" in the movie. Harrison Ford is older and thus Indiana Jones had to be older. Just like the older trilogy was set in the 30s at which time there was a lot of talk about Nazis and religious relics and stuff, so the fourth was set in the late 50s (according to the character's age) when there was tons of talk about Soviets and flying saucers and nuclear bombs. They were just playing to the times in which the movies were set while keeping the same spirit of fun and adventure throughout all four movies.

While I'm sentimental about these characters, you guys seem to be stuck in nostalgia-land. Today's technology is more advanced and though the crew of "Indy 4" tried to go back to the way things were in the 80s for much of the production, with new technology comes new possibilities. You don't like the monkeys and ants? Well, they're not there for you. You don't like that they nuked a fridge? What more fitting way to introduce Indy to a fresh new audience than to have him do something so insane and ridiculous as surviving a nuclear explosion in a fridge (which is in fact completely in the realm of possibility)? It makes him out to be more than just some old dude in a hat. He's Indiana Jones no matter what time period he's in. He's a hero and he's always breaking new ground...

I can only hope for "Indy 5". Your negative opinions?

ComicsCommando
ComicsCommando - 7/15/2011, 2:11 AM
Very well said, BatmanIsBaddest. I fully agree about Indy 4 not "jumping the shark" in terms of plot.
joekerr93
joekerr93 - 7/15/2011, 2:17 AM
I totally agree with BatmanIsBaddest
BatmanIsBaddest
BatmanIsBaddest - 7/15/2011, 2:34 AM
In relation to this article on its own: I think Harrison was joking. Plus, just because he enjoys the idea doesn't mean he wants to *really* kill the character. It's a well-known fact he wanted Han Solo to die in "STAR WARS", I think he was just aware of the irony of that sort of thing popping up again. Plus, Harrison has demonstrated repeatedly that Indiana Jones is probably his favorite role. The same cannot be said for Han Solo, who he said he loathed playing.

I can't see Indy dying at all in the series, as that would fly in the face of the pulp-fiction archetype he was created to emulate. As we all know, George is stubborn when it comes to that sort of thing. (Han didn't die in "RETURN OF THE JEDI".)
D117
D117 - 7/15/2011, 3:20 AM
@BatmanIsBaddest: Definately agree
Spilox
Spilox - 7/15/2011, 3:25 AM
@BatmanIsBaddest, Indy didn't "jump the shark"/"nuke the fridge", he threw the S. You made some good points though.

I do think Ford was serious about killing the character. Just as Arthur Conan Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes (I know he brought him back to life anyway) he killed of his favorite character because he didn't want anybody else writing about him after his own death.
I think the same thing goes for Ford, i don't think he could stand the fact to see the franchise rebooted, and somebody else playing Indy.

But they probably won't kill him off, as you said the archetypical hero survives and lives happily ever after. Although if we go by these standerds we might see the father die and the son taking over for him. And do we realy want to see shia don the hat and whip?
ROMACK
ROMACK - 7/15/2011, 4:04 AM
They just need to put the series to rest the way it is.
AlSimmons
AlSimmons - 7/15/2011, 5:19 AM
@BatmanIsBaddest it had Shia LaBeouf swinging in the trees with monkeys and Indy surviving a nuke by hiding in a fridge. It jumped a legion of sharks.
YourMomNaked
YourMomNaked - 7/15/2011, 6:40 AM
That's an old quote...or he's been repeating himself for years.
kingkrikkit
kingkrikkit - 7/15/2011, 7:43 AM
@YourMomNaked He's probably been repeating himself for years... becuase if that's the the way he really feels and he keeps getting asked these same questions over and over again, hes going to rightly answer the same way over and over... it probably drives him nuts :)
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 7/15/2011, 8:01 AM
JackDexx@ agree on that one. The fourth movie killed the character already.
loganoneil
loganoneil - 7/15/2011, 10:26 AM
What a conicedence, I want the character dead too - but BEFORE that last POS movie was ever made! Lucas had the PERFECT ending to the saga - Jones (plural) riding off into the African dessert... roll credits, THE END! But does he leave well enough alone? NOOOOOO! The greedy fat bastard HAS to squeeze ever possible dime out of ever propoerty he owns (because he's too lazy to come up with anything NEW in the past 20+ years - yeah, I said it, who wants some?!)! That's why he @#$!-ed up Indy... that's why he @#$!-ed up 'Star Wars'! He has become the thing he originally set out to fight - a greedy corporate 'suit' interested more in the bottom-line than in putting out quality product!
loganoneil
loganoneil - 7/15/2011, 10:26 AM
What a conicedence, I want the character dead too - but BEFORE that last POS movie was ever made! Lucas had the PERFECT ending to the saga - Jones (plural) riding off into the African dessert... roll credits, THE END! But does he leave well enough alone? NOOOOOO! The greedy fat bastard HAS to squeeze ever possible dime out of ever property he owns (because he's too lazy to come up with anything NEW in the past 20+ years - yeah, I said it, who wants some?!)! That's why he @#$!-ed up Indy... that's why he @#$!-ed up 'Star Wars'! He has become the thing he originally set out to fight - a greedy corporate 'suit' interested more in the bottom-line than in putting out quality product!
Coldblood6
Coldblood6 - 7/16/2011, 9:03 AM
Indy 4 sucked amazing amounts of donkey balls!

Let the franchise die.
mlsleep
mlsleep - 7/16/2011, 1:40 PM
BatmanIsBaddest Bless you!!!! You're so right it's scary. I loved all 4 of the movies!! If you take away all sentimental attachment to the first 3 films, An look at them now they have as many absurd moments as crystal skull had! I'm not going to list them, we all know them. It really fall's all on fan expectations. My uncle saw Raiders when came out loved it, hated Temple, then hated last crusade, because he thought the first 2 movies were better. So chill everyone, and lets hope the next one gets made!
AC1
AC1 - 7/16/2011, 3:17 PM
@BatmanIsBaddest I think it's past your bed time. It is not within the realm of possibility to survive that. Sure, a lead lined fridge would theoretically protect you from the nuke. But the force of it being thrown as far and high as it was, to then crash to the ground with such force would certainly kill you. Every bone in your body would shatter. And that's if you survived the heat of the explosion. The speed would also likely cause severe internal injury.

While I love Indiana Jones, the first film was by far the best. Then the Last Crusade came in a close second. For me, Temple of Doom and KOTCS come in a distant last. And George Lucas lost loads of respect from me that day. If they make Indy 5, I'll be happy if it's good enough to make up for 4. But if it's worse, I may just lose all respect for Lucas and the character, and be unable to watch another Indy film again (similar to how Joel Schu[frick]er ruined Tim Burton's Bat-films for me, since I knew where they were headed).

And just for you @BatmanIsBaddest, I thought I'd show some videos myself:


and as for you're opinion?

(see what I did there, we both used good ol' Dr Cox)

I'm just messin' (I mean what I said, but the harshness is just for effect, I think it emphasizes the Dr Cox inclusion) ;)
AC1
AC1 - 7/16/2011, 3:19 PM
just realised I misspelled your.... that's embarrassing. Certainly one of those times that editing comments would be useful (Hint Hint @Galactus/CBM)
BatmanIsBaddest
BatmanIsBaddest - 7/16/2011, 9:10 PM
@ACira
Tell me then how a baby can be picked up out of its crib by a tornado and be found alive and well a couple miles away. Tell me how after a bomb was set at his feet Adolf Hitler, being protected by just a few inches of wood, was able to walk away from that ensuing explosion without suffering a single broken bone (while several of the men around him were killed). Crazy stuff does happen everyday. Not everything that reason says is impossible turns out to *be* impossible. It is totally within the realm of possibility that he could not only have survived being knocked around in that fridge, but that he could walk away from it. That's science.

BatmanIsBaddest
BatmanIsBaddest - 7/16/2011, 11:36 PM
@ACira
In retrospect, I feel I should point out that I'm not surprised that you get all of your facts from Youtube... or all your opinions...
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