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    Another update on the movie May 2008 release


    Ford turns 65 on set with Indiana


    Only one shot from the set has been released to the media


    Film star Harrison Ford has marked his 65th birthday while filming the fourth Indiana Jones film in Hawaii.
    The actor has returned to the role 18 years after the last instalment in the franchise, but producers say he is still performing his own stunts.
    "He's doing them," confirmed Kathleen Kennedy, one of the film's executive producers. "He just has a few more ice packs and a few more massages."
    The fourth film, co-starring John Hurt and Shia LaBeouf, is due in May 2008.
    The cast have just completed the first of three weeks of filming in Hawaii, where scenes set in a South American rainforest are being shot.
    Some of the movies biggest action scenes will be shot there, with producer Frank Marshall comparing one set-piece to the thrilling truck chase in 1981's Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
    "It's that level," he told the Associated Press news agency.
    Long wait
    Ford, who was 38 when he first donned Indiana Jones' trademark fedora and bullwhip, turned 65 on Friday.
    The star, along with producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg, had resisted making a fourth instalment in the action series for several years.
    Saying they wanted to wait until the script was good enough, the trio held out for over a decade before they were happy.
    Kennedy said the movie, which has yet to receive a title, retained all the hallmarks of its blockbuster predecessors.
    "The cleverness, the humour and the tone of Indiana Jones is very much alive and well in this movie," she said.
    Marshall added that the cast and crew were having "a great time" in Hawaii.
    "Nobody's worried about their careers anymore," he said.






  • Indiana Jones 4,,about damn time

    New Indiana Jones image released



    Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones (courtesy of LucasFilm)

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    The first picture from the set of Indiana Jones has been released, as filming on the fourth adventure begins.
    Shot by director Steven Spielberg, the photo shows star Harrison Ford wearing his character's trademark fedora hat for the first time in 18 years.
    The original Indiana Jones trilogy, a tribute to Saturday morning B-movies, made more than $1.1bn (£560m) at the box office in the 1980s.
    The fourth film, co-starring John Hurt, is due for release on 22 May 2008.
    Other names lined up for the action blockbuster include Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent and Shia LeBeouf, who is rumoured to be playing Indiana's son.
    Little else is known about the film - not even its title - but it will be set in the 1950s.
    'Back in business'
    The franchise began in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which archaeologist Jones raced around the world to find the Ark of the Covenant before it fell into the hands of the Nazis.
    Rumours of a fourth chapter in the saga circulated for several years, before the film was finally announced in December 2006.
    "I'm delighted to be back in business with my old friends," said Harrison Ford earlier this year. "I don't know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will." Producers LucasFilm recently announced that Sir Sean Connery - who played Indiana Jones' bookish father in the franchise's third instalment - would not reprise his role in the new film. Filming is expected to continue for the rest of the summer before moving to the post-production phase.

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    Play.com are doing a good deal at the moment on the digitally restored James Bond DVDs. Buy one get one free at £11.99 that works out at just under £6.00 each.


    Worth stocking up and getting any missing titles you want


    Mike

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    Always like For Your Eyes Only as it had a good strong story. I wasnt that fussed on Moonraker as I thought it was chasing the Star Wars money.


    Thought View to a Kill wasn't bad either as Christopher Walken and Grace Jones and Patrick Magnee gave good support but Moore was showing his age by that time.

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    I must admit I like Bond too particularly Connery & Moore but from Living Daylights Timothy Dalton onwards they have shown signs of running out of steam withe the exception of Goldeneye and Casino Royale.


    My favourite Bond would be wait for it On Her Majesty's Secret Service which despite Lazenby's greenness in acting at least pushed the story in a different direction from the other Bonds.


    The other favourites would be Goldfinger which in my mind peaked the Connery series and for Moore (being a child of the seventies LOL) would be Live and Let Die again the first in a series were the producers made more of an effort.

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    Hi Chester


    The thing about Superman Returns is that there was a good amount of space between the Last Christopher Reeve film and that one.


    If Indy 4 does get made and is a success I cant see Ford doing another one in a few years.


    I fully agree with you on James Bond it is totally played out. Even the best movies which tend to be the first in the actor's run.


    Goldeneye for Brosnan and Casino Royale for Craig are like eye candy. Nice at the time but instantly forgettable.


    I take it Steve Martin will not be doing a sequel to Pink Panther it was woeful!!!

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    I think if Tom had done Raiders of the Lost ark that would have been it. There wouldnt have been Temple of Doom or Last Crusade or 4.


    Remember High Road to China or Howard the Duck in case of Lucas.


    Has anyone ever seen Howard. I think it made in to VCR in the USA but Lucas has been privately burning every copy since then.


    You never see clips of it at the AFI Tributes? Wonder why:hyper:

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    Bruce Willis would have the right attitude but I think they need somebody younger.


    Can you imagine if they had let Tom Selleck do Raiders as planned except Magnum PI producers wouldn't release him and Ford got the role.

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    Actually, I believe 29 is the stepping off point of life as the young know it.


    I remember my first boss was 29 and I looked at him as if he was 1000 years old and was amazed that he went out at nights and had a social life.


    Oh well , it all comes round I now have staff whose mother's are younger than me and proberably look at me as the sad old fart who insists that work should be checked can actually spell and can count without the use of a machine!!!



    Ive been lucky that I have always been around the average age of those I work with so we can bore the whippersnappers with stories of "the old times" like black & white TV, cooked ham cut of a slicer etc, waiting a year to have a phone installed and if you want to really annoy them mention your mortgage!!!



    Anyway, Harrison Ford looks great for 64 I just hope he has plenty of Deep Heat in stock for all those aches and pains.



    What's the saying "You are only as old as the woman you feel". I think the 29 year old told me that!! LOL


    Mike

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    Hi Kevin


    I heard all different stories. Apparently it is to be set post WW2 with possibly Costner as a younger brother and Connery as father.


    Glad to see it announced before poor Harrison Ford becomes totally decrepit.:fear2:


    What with Rocky 6 with Stallone at 60. I nearly expect to see him fight George Foreman.



    Mike