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[Eagle of Fire]

None for me either. I don't like any of those choices enough to even think about turning it into a movie...

[Fleabass666]

Monkey Island: The pirate genre is still underexploited in the 7th art...

[hunvagy]

Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis. Only to forget Kingdom of the Crystal Skull forever

[RRS]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis... but 20 years ago

I'm not happy with the list... When I'm talking about stories/characters with movie potential, I'm thinking of titles such as Fallout, No One Lives Forever, Deus Ex, Transarctica... dumb Hollywood will never even consider these...

[Tracker]

The problem is, as it turns out, that we could run this poll for ages. Now that I think about it, I could have chosen better titles such as Half-Life and such... But as Darth said - everyone's free to make polls.

[DarthHelmet86]

If you aren't happy with the listed options, make up your own poll idea and post it in the poll ideas thread you might get it on site.

[The Occupant]

Of my choices, Samand Max got a short lived and quite good televison series, Monkey Island got Pirates of the Carrabean, so that leaves Loom. *shivver* That would be epic, in the true sense of the word.
A fantastic and rich world, I would love to see that as a good movie.

[Japo]

Well, nobody's forcing Ford to play Indiana again. I remember we talked here in these forums about who should be the next Indiana, even before the Crystal Skull was released. Someone said Dennis Quaid at the time, and I thought it was a good idea. I'm sure there are plenty of candidates. Ford is 70 effing years old.

Plenty of different actors have played 007 and it's not a bad thing, it doesn't really get in the way of people identifying the character. From seeing the Crystal Skull, I'm not sure if the producers might be thinking about having Indiana retire in the fiction and have the character what's-his-name played by Shia what's-his-name be his successor. At any rate that movie was a flop.

I don't want movies about the adventures of Indiana's younger successor, I want Indiana. I do want the Indiana franchise to be dragged on forever just like 007, what's wrong about that? Surely everybody wants more Indiana movies.

Originally Posted by The Occupant

Monkey Island got Pirates of the Caribbean

What, how is that even a sentence with meaning, or did you just put some words together at random?

[RRS]

Originally Posted by Dave

...20 years ago with a younger Harrison Ford...

Originally Posted by Japo

Ford is 70 effing years old.

What's worse than old Ford, is that Lucas (who has his greedy sweaty hands on the franchise) and Spielberg have gone old and mad, thus unable to make proper Indy movie anymore, even if we had cloned 30something Harrison.

New blood?

Then show me an example of a good Indy-like movie to prove someone has what-it-takes to do it. All we got were pathetic mutations such as Tomb Rider (and mind that I did enjoy the game) or National Treasure (I'm not even going to mention cheaper ones made-for-TV or that German series about librarian etc.).
The closest thing in Indy style (I'm not talking only about 1930s, but also cinematography, music, pace, everything) was Rocketeer, but that was again, 20 years ago!
Laugh it up that I'm ranting like Eagle of Fire, but provide an example someone still can do it the old style.

Originally Posted by Japo

Plenty of different actors have played 007 and it's not a bad thing, it doesn't really get in the way of people identifying the character.

Really? Because for me each time he is completely different. Like he's just a concept, not a person. What's common it's that he's always a rich jerk.

[DarthHelmet86]

Indiana Jones was not the norm for that time either, it was a re-imaging of the serial movie shorts that used to be played in theatres from the early movie days. Kinda like a TV show it would have a small run time and only be part of a story, but with high action to keep people entertained even if they hadn't seen the others.

To be fair I wouldn't even want anyone else ever making this kind of movie again, mainly due to looking back on it the movies aren't that good. They have poor stories and all end with Deus Ex Machina solving the problem (The Ark kills all the bad guys, the army saves Indy and the Grail just happens to fall down the crack...and just happens to pass the magic line for that crack to appear) and well the characters just aren't that likeable either.