JonathanLB
May 31st, 2002, 02:50:44 AM
Frank Darabont is on as the screenwriter, the project is greenlit for July 2005. How cool is that?
We know Darabont rocks, and Spielberg is absolutely the man, plus Ford... uhh...
Can you say $400 million EASILY?! I can.
I think Indy 4 will have an excellent shot at $500 million. People have been without Indy now for quite some time and, like TPM, it'll capitalize on that built-up interest over more than a decade (16 years by 2005 right? Just like TPM...) and it will sell just slightly fewer tickets than TPM, which adjusted for inflation is about $500 million. At the least, though, it should crash $400 million without a problem. Prime summer release date like that, July 4th weekend, oh man. No question that movie is going to be box office gold, plus the fact you have Episode III coming out earlier that summer, so Lucasfilm will own the year.
I think if you took the tally of Episode III away from Fox that year, then Indy 4 away from Paramount and simply put those TWO films under Lucasfilm, the company would come close to winning the entire year on the strength of two movies, hehe.
Indy 4 could outgross Episode III... I mean I hope not, but Episode III being so dark and all, I dunno, it's going to be one heck of an awesome summer!
We know Darabont rocks, and Spielberg is absolutely the man, plus Ford... uhh...
Can you say $400 million EASILY?! I can.
I think Indy 4 will have an excellent shot at $500 million. People have been without Indy now for quite some time and, like TPM, it'll capitalize on that built-up interest over more than a decade (16 years by 2005 right? Just like TPM...) and it will sell just slightly fewer tickets than TPM, which adjusted for inflation is about $500 million. At the least, though, it should crash $400 million without a problem. Prime summer release date like that, July 4th weekend, oh man. No question that movie is going to be box office gold, plus the fact you have Episode III coming out earlier that summer, so Lucasfilm will own the year.
I think if you took the tally of Episode III away from Fox that year, then Indy 4 away from Paramount and simply put those TWO films under Lucasfilm, the company would come close to winning the entire year on the strength of two movies, hehe.
Indy 4 could outgross Episode III... I mean I hope not, but Episode III being so dark and all, I dunno, it's going to be one heck of an awesome summer!