The Harrison Ford Thread

[News Hound]

Just a thread to keep folks up to date on all the movies currently staring Harrison Ford...

News and feuds: Ford, Keaton and McAdams rise and shine for 'Morning Glory' TV news comedy," Oct 13, 2010 -By Harry Haun



In the minds of most movie buffs, Morning Glory is the one about a young actress taking root and blossoming on Broadway—that actress being Katharine Hepburn, in her third film and her first Oscar-winning performance—but there’s more Morning Glory where this came from: seven more, in fact. The Internet Movie Database lists eight (!) different screen projects with that title—from the Hepburn triumph of 1933 to the frisky comedy that Paramount Pictures puts into release on Nov. 12.

Its choice of medium is one undreamed of 77 years ago—television, and, in particular, a live morning news program where the possibility of hilarious chaos is obvious and limitless. “Daybreak,” this particular show is called. Thoroughly trounced by the competition, with ratings in the cellar, it looms like “Sunset.”

Enter an ambitious young innocent, determined to pull the show up by its frayed bootstraps—and since the script is by Aline Brosh McKenna, who also did The Devil Wears Prada, a woman fills this bill: Rachel McAdams is the Anne Hathaway-figure in this small-screen Wonderland, a freshly canned local TV producer who makes a flying leap at network television via this bottom-rung opportunity. She recruits a salty, seasoned and very serious anchorman (Harrison Ford) and places him opposite the existing host (Diane Keaton), an ex-beauty pageant winner who prefers trifling segments over hard news. They bristle off-camera and on, and McAdams’ Little Miss Fix-It quickly finds herself recast as Little Miss Peace-Maker.

From these two conflicting schools of thought clanging together comes a comedy that is both authentic and thought-filled, contends the film’s director, Roger Michell.

[Doug Palumbo]

Ford is starting to really show his age. I think the hair and make-up people can only keep up with him for so long. He needs to start taking on more straight drama roles or maybe comedy and leave the action hero stuff behind for good. Take a cue from Sean Connery. It worked quite well for him. I am however looking forward to 'Cowboys and Aliens' with Ford. http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=21185

[Eric Renderking Fisk]

I know you might not agree - but I wish they would keep making Indiana Jones movies until he physically can't do it any more. How old was Shatner when he stopped playing Captain Kirk? So long as the character is allowed to change and grow...

[Doug Palumbo]

Some of us would love to see that but others don't want to see the character change or grow at all. As for getting too old to physically do it, I'd say he has one 'Jones' movie left in him and that's it.

[n11pilot]

Some of us would love to see that but others don't want to see the character change or grow at all. As for getting too old to physically do it, I'd say he has one 'Jones' movie left in him and that's it.

I say let MR Ford make "Indy" movies as long as he considers himself able to make them. It is no crime to enter late middle age and as long as he is able to move under his own steam why not let him do so?

Back in the late 70s there was a pretty good film entitled "The Wild Geese" about a group of mercenaries out to do a bit of good in this evil world. At the time there was some talk in magazines that the actor who played the RSM trainer of the group was looking too old for the part. The best answer I read stated something to the effect,"If you think that guy is too old would you be willing to take him on in a fight?"

So Doug, don't be surprised if MR Ford lands his plane in your backyard and offers to adjust your ageist attitude.

[Doug Palumbo]

I think older folks can do action parts, just watch The Expendables. Great action flick. I just don't think Ford is aging that well and can only realistically play Jones one last time, unless for future Jones movies he takes a back seat as Connery did in Last Crusade.

[n11pilot]

I think older folks can do action parts, just watch The Expendables. Great action flick. I just don't think Ford is aging that well and can only realistically play Jones one last time, unless for future Jones movies he takes a back seat as Connery did in Last Crusade.

If it actually does come to the point where MR Ford is too creaky to play Indy they should retire the character and introduce another hero in a different franchise of the same period. In my opinion anyway.

[Blackthorn]

I think older folks can do action parts, just watch The Expendables. Great action flick. I just don't think Ford is aging that well and can only realistically play Jones one last time, unless for future Jones movies he takes a back seat as Connery did in Last Crusade.

If it actually does come to the point where MR Ford is too creaky to play Indy they should retire the character and introduce another hero in a different franchise of the same period. In my opinion anyway.

I like that idea a lot.

[Cousi]

I think older folks can do action parts, just watch The Expendables. Great action flick. I just don't think Ford is aging that well and can only realistically play Jones one last time, unless for future Jones movies he takes a back seat as Connery did in Last Crusade.

If it actually does come to the point where MR Ford is too creaky to play Indy they should retire the character and introduce another hero in a different franchise of the same period. In my opinion anyway.

I like that idea a lot.

But this is GEORGE LUCAS! Look at the milking he's doing with Star Wars.

I think there should be two or three 'Indiana Jones'-esque characters each with their own franchise. I think there should be another space opera besides Star Wars and Star Trek. I think there should be a few fantasy franchises with equivalent production values as Lord of the Rings enjoyed. I think Hollywood should stop trying to "improve" established stories and just make them as close to the original source material as possible. If I have to sit through one more "historically accurate" portrayal of King Arthur, Robin Hood, the Three Musketeers or Charlemagne, I'm going to drive to Hollywood, hunt down the people who green-light projects and punch them all in the face, stomp on their guts and beat them into so much meat. There are hundreds of works out there worthy of the multi-million-dollar treatment but those self-absorbed idiots in tinsel-town can't seem to extract their craniums from their rectums long enough to just enjoy them for what they are without thinking they can "improve" them. Wouldn't it be great if we had different sci-fi franchises being put out by all the major Hollywood production houses? And a retro adventure franchise? And a high fantasy franchise? And a post-apocalyptic franchise? [/rant]

[DLFerguson]

I still don't understand why Indiana Jones fans are so resistant to somebody else taking over the role. After all, Sean Patrick Flannery did an excellent job playing the young Indiana Jones in the TV series. Why not let him take over the role and give us a new trilogy set during World War II and tell us about some of those missions that KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL hinted at? Flannery's in his 40's now...young enough to last through a trilogy but old enough to have enough experience to give credibility to his performance.

[Doug Palumbo]

I think some of the probelm with the Indy franchise is that it bounces around too much through time...Raiders, Temple of Doom (prequel), The Last Crusade (back to the present but with an opening flash back), Young Indy Chronicles (another prequel and fast forward to Indy as an old man in the same show) then Crystal Skull.

If they were to use Flannery, I think he could do a fantastic job and would make for a natural replacement to Ford but the general public might get a bit confused with the time shifting. Besides, with Shia now entrentched in the franchise, it's his show now. I like him as an actor as he is engaging and charming on screen but I would like to have seen Flannery get a shot at the fedora again.

[Blackthorn]

I still don't understand why Indiana Jones fans are so resistant to somebody else taking over the role. After all, Sean Patrick Flannery did an excellent job playing the young Indiana Jones in the TV series. Why not let him take over the role and give us a new trilogy set during World War II and tell us about some of those missions that KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL hinted at? Flannery's in his 40's now...young enough to last through a trilogy but old enough to have enough experience to give credibility to his performance.

I'm in full agreement with you, DLF. Great idea. I think once time marches on over the coming decades and Ford passes on, and Lucas and Spielberg pass on, someone will come up with new plots, adventures and actors, but the same character and setting. There is simply too much money to be made on this franchise. No one is going to pass it up out of respect for Ford, et al.

Come to think of it, using different actors for James Bond hasn't hurt those movies at all.

[Eric Renderking Fisk]

I never thought that I would live to see the day that anyone else could play James Bond better then Sean Connery. I thought Pierce Brosnan was pretty good, but Daniel Craig nailed the character exactly the way he was written in the original books.

He's not always a nice guy, he doesn't follow any of the rules, he's not someone you want dating your sister or daughter, and there's some moral ambiguity on the outside while at the inside he's torn up... he actually likes killing the bad guy and he debates what would happen if he wasn't in MI6 with a license to kill. Other times he could walk away from it all together and live a quieter life. Craig plays that aspect of Bond to a T.

I'm just not used to the idea of anyone else playing Jones. I just don't think there's a right actor who could do it right now. Not saying that nobody else could do it... I just don't know who right now.

[DLFerguson]

For me it was Timothy Dalton who nailed the James Bond of the books perfectly. With his two Bond movies he became my second favorite Bond right behind Sean Connery.

Daniel Craig...my jury is still out on him. He made one terrific Bond movie and one lousy one. I'm eagerly awaiting a third one to break the tie but with the money troubles that MGM is having, that's not likely. Which is too bad for all of us.

As for who could play Indiana Jones now...well, I've already mentioned Sean Patrick Flannery as my idea choice. But I could see Dennis Quaid playing Indiana Jones. As he's gotten older he grown to resemble and even sound a lot like Harrison Ford.
But if those two weren't able to do it then I'm sure a talented newcomer could be found. In fact, I think I'd prefer an unknown to take over.

I simply cannot believe that there are Indiana Jones fans who would rather not see anybody else play the role and no more movies made rather than simply recasting the part

[The Oracle]

The latest on the rumor mill for Indy

HARRISON Ford wants to kill off Indiana Jones!

http://www.showbizspy.com/article/22184 ... -ford.html

I for one do not believe it.