It’s funny… for all the bashing that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull got, it still ended up getting enough people to go see it multiple times that it ended up being the #2 world wide box office movie last year just behind The Dark Knight.
But even people like me (who moderately enjoyed the movie) acknowledge it was a let down of epic proportions. I’ve always said that if you called Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by another name (something other than an Indiana Jones movie) it probably would have felt like a much better film… but it WAS an Indiana Jones film and thus should have been a hell of a lot better than it was.
At any rate, with the movie making as much money as it did, this news comes as no surprise. Shia LaBeouf is now saying that the next Indiana Jones movie is indeed moving forward. The folks over at Coming Soon had this to say:
In an interview with BBC News, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Shia LaBeouf says that it looks like a follow-up to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is moving forward. “Steven [Spielberg] just said that he cracked the story on it before I left and I think they’re gearing that up,” LaBeouf said.
Ok, I know I’m going to be in the VAST minority here… but I’m happy to hear this news. Not because I thought KOTCS was good… but because I’d love for them to take a shot at redeeming themselves for the mistakes in the last movie. I still love Indiana Jones and I want a GREAT movie about an older Jones. Even with all the mistakes there were some good things about the last movie… and I hope they can build on those and get rid of the trash. And please George… just let Steven direct the film his way.
