re: 'Indiana Jones 5' Will Begin Filming This Summer, Harrison Ford Says

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This would be a perfect reboot to bring in Pratt

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No. Indiana Jones doesn't need a reboot and Chris fricking Pratt is not a good choice for Indiana Jones. I don't know why he gets mentioned

If Crystal Skull had maybe one mild rewrite and a few different production changes it would have been a really good Indy flick.

#1 thing is Sallah needed to be involved either in either the Mac or Ox role. Mac is the most obvious traitor ever and having that be Sallah would have been a huge shock. The entire reason Indy goes out in this one to save Ox and having that be Sallah would have far more impact. Either way, having two characters we have never seen before drive so much of that action while somehow being massively important people to Indy was a huge mistake. I would lean towards making Sallah the one who needed to be saved and bring back a character like Remy Baudouin from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as the turncoat for fan service (b/c lettuce bee cereal, the very idea of an Indy 4 is fan service).

#2 is TONE DOWN THE frickING CG. Cut out those damn monkeys, the aliens needed to be practical effects, and for the love of god don't shoot everything on a sound stage if you don't know how to make the lighting on the actors blend with the CG backgrounds.

#3 is make Spalko legitimately scary and give her a better death than the knowledge being to much to handle. She needed to be murking people left and right to really hammer home how evil she was. Have her kill Remy late in the movie for coming to his senses and helping Indy. Have her death come at the hands of the aliens where they straight up absorb her arse into a collective hive mind/body a super painful way. Have it either be kind of like in a movie like The Blob w/a physical being or a flick like Superman 3 where it's an advanced computer that integrates itself into her body. This sequence 100% needed to be practical effects instead of the burst of light that made it seem like they ran out of time when making the film.