"Hold your water, I'm coming.."
Posted on 01/19/2018 12:06:14 PM PST by EdnaMode
Hot off directing back to back pictures in the Oscar contender The Post and the upcoming Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg is now figuring out his next two directorial vehicles. There are several percolating, but sources say he is eyeing Indiana Jones, and then would either precede or follow quickly with another pic. I’m hearing that one might be his dream project, a new version of West Side Story. Spielberg’s camp had no comment on his plans.
Deadline revealed back in 2015 that Spielberg had his eye on his Jurassic World star Chris Pratt to be a central part of the franchise relaunch, alongside Harrison Ford. Not sure if that is set in stone, but the prospect of Spielberg relaunching the franchise he hatched with pal George Lucas makes Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm seem even more brilliant in hindsight. That franchise moved from Paramount and came with all the Star Wars stuff. David Koepp wrote the Indy script. Disney dated it for 2020.
Spielberg has long been interested in a new version of the 1961 classic movie West Side Story, which was co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from the Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim musical. Frequent Spielberg collaborator Tony Kushner has been working on the script.
Unsure how quickly Spielberg will move from one project to the next, but his history of multi-tasking is strong. That included the time he made Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List back to back. It made for a memorable 1993, with Jurassic proving a huge summer hit that spawned a franchise and theme park rides at Universal, and then Schindler’s List winning Best Picture. He did something similar with Ready Player One, with early footage from the Ernest Cline novel adaptation that got the Comic-Con crowd all hot and bothered last summer in San Diego. Warner Bros releases it March 30 and we’ll know Tuesday how The Post fares with Oscar nominations.
Sources said that Spielberg could fall for another script — if you got a good one, now’s the time to send it — and could possibly do a film before Indy if one hits him like a lightning bolt the way that Liz Hannah’s script for The Post did. Other projects on his radar that don’t seem so white hot include The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara, a Kushner-scripted adaptation of the David Kirtzer novel. That one seemed on a fast track before Spielberg chose Ready Player One, with Mark Rylance and Oscar Isaac attaching. It cooled because Spielberg had such trouble casting the youth — he saw over 2000 kids to play the role of a young Jewish boy, forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th century Italy, which created a furor that pitted the Vatican against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
How sad. Is there nothing original in Hollywood anymore?
Remakes on top of remakes.
West Side Story? Muslims versus the Mexicans?
I hope it wont involve aliens and a crazy moonbat actor in Shia..
"Hold your water, I'm coming.."
My Son got this from the Rifftrax version of Crystal Skull:
(Sung with the Raiders theme)
“Running away now
Really slow
Nearly limping
‘Cause he’s old OLD OLD!”
Will they rewrite the WSS songs?
When You’re Top Kek?
I Self-Identify as Pretty?
George Lucas was the one who damaged the last Indiana Jones movie with the mumbo jumbo alien angle he insisted on.
A remake of West Side Story.
Wow.
Guys snapping their fingers and jumping around.
I think he should make Mary Poppins Visits Jurassic Park.
“Just a spoon full of sugar makes the Park Attendant go down, the Park Attendant go down, the Park Attendant go down.”
Oh yes, because the nuclear blast survival scene was so unforgettable, lol.
Heck, Harrison Ford was too old in the last one and that was over 10 years ago if I recall! There is not enough CGI and stuntmen on Earth to make him a credible Indiana Jones. The only way it might work is if he played a supporting role like Sean Connery did in The Last Crusade.
Some movies should never be remade. West Side Story is one of them. It was a different time when such a story was relevant, and the audience could still appreciate such music. Now there are no more street gangs like that. Today they are all drug gangs. And a great number of the potential audience can only relate to cheesy pop, hip hop and rap. Plus the original portrayed real men and women. Today the characters would be gay, tranny, overly aggressive females and wimpy males. Oh, and the cast would have to be “diverse” with the whites completely portrayed as the bad guys.
I was on the set of AI back in Aug thru Nov of 2000. On election night I was a few feet behind him while he was waving a cigar in the air saying how Gore was going to wipe Bush up in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisc, Mich and all the Midwest. Finally had to go outside and walk around studio 16. I think it was 16. Still a very interesting 4 months.
Awwww, c’mon, can’t you just see all the kiddies begging for action figures of a 77 year old? The inspiration for a geriatric ‘action hero’ every kid wants to be...uh, every 80 year old? WHO is the target audience?? Stoned grandpas?
West Side Story with an all male cast...LOL
the only way to use Harrison ford is as an old man recalling his younger years and getting a young twenty to thirty something to play the part of a younger Indiana Jones.
Better yet, a new "Flashman".
And don't hire Malcolm McDowell for the lead.
There is no way to recast Natalie Wood.
Even that is assuming he doesn’t crash-n-burn playing Han Solo in one of his PC jets.
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