Posted on 04/05/2018 11:59:06 AM PDT by ethom
Veteran Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg says the next star of one of his most iconic characters, Indiana Jones, should be played by a woman. Speaking to The Sun as his latest film Ready Player One hits the cinemas, Spielberg said that although it would risk anger from longtime fans of the Indiana Jones franchise, it is time the explorer took on “a different form.”
“We’d have to change the name from Jones to Joan,” he said. “And there would be nothing wrong with that.”
Ford, 75, first played Indiana Jones in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and reprised the role in three sequels, with the last being in 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
It was announced last month that Spielberg will begin shooting the fifth, and as yet untitled, Indiana Jones movie in 2019. He also confirmed that this will be Harrison Ford’s last.
“This will be Harrison Ford’s last Indiana Jones movie, I am pretty sure, but it will certainly continue after that,” Spielberg said.
Feminist campaigners have also speculated about a woman taking on the role of the British spy franchise James Bond, although others have dismissed the idea.
Spielberg, who remains one of America’s most recognized and iconic film directors, also recently expressed his support for the anti-sexual harassment campaign Time’s Up, which was launched in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
“I think in 10 years’ time we’ll look back and realize what a watershed moment we are all experiencing together. 2017 to 2018, it’s extraordinary what’s happening right now,” the four-time Academy Award-winner said last month.
Spielberg has also become more politically active in the era of the Trump presidency, recently donating $500,000 to the student gun control movement March for Our Lives.
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I wouldn’t go see it.
Just give Harrison Ford a sex change, that will fix it...
I’ll watch it. I enjoy a good comedy.
Makes as much sense as Stormy Daniels playing James Bond. Does not compute.
Jones is his last lame. How about Henrietta Jones?
Not sure Harrison Ford will agree to the surgery required.
It wouldn’t be the first mistake Hollywood ever made.
Spielberg is free to lose as much money as he chooses.
Lindiana Jones?
Speilberg should give up on this idea. I don’t think Harrison Ford would be willing to undergo the necessary surgery...
There already are two female Indiana Jones: Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. Joan Wilder in Romancing the Stone. Mr. Spielberg: Leave my Indiana Jones alone!! He’s maximum eye candy!
Hey, here’s an idea....come up with a new story and cast a woman in that role.
Hey, here’s an idea....come up with a new story and cast a woman in that role.
My apologies. I did not see your post before I wrote mine!
Indianola Jones?
“Just give Harrison Ford a sex change, that will fix it...”
No. All he has to do it think he is a woman.
I saw In Diana Jones, but that is a different movie altogether
or Mindianna
or Cindianna
or reallystuopidideachanginghimtoaherjones
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