Robert Pattinson Wanted For New ‘Indiana Jones’

With Harrison Ford going retro for the new STAR WARS movie, it seems there will be one franchise he won’t be returning to. Disney are looking to cast new blood for a revival of the INDIANA JONES adventures, and speaking of blood the number one choice is apparently Robert Pattinson from the TWILIGHT saga. The origin of this information is a British tabloid, so we can file it under “highly speculative” and allow some dust to gather before some hardier soul can excavate the truth. However in these days of wall to wall reboots it’s likely the studio are wanting to stick Dr.Jones on a plane to Derring-Do’sville sooner rather than later.

The favouring of Pattinson suggests a younger take along the lines of the worthy but bland Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, hours of which were produced by George Lucas in the 1990s. With Lucas presumably out of the picture we may also see less reliance on the movie serial tone of previous instalments. Whatever the approach the films went on to have their own influence in offerings such as ROMANCING THE STONE and NATIONAL TREASURE, so it will be interesting to see what a 2014 take would involve. It couldn’t be more of a jumble than KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, which under Lucas’s supervision mashed together different stories and, while watchable, ended up as a patchwork quilt being draped over the knees of a charismatic but elderly man.

The source site names some other choices and while they are generally solid I would like to add the names Matthew McConaughey, Kenneth Branagh (yes, really), Jack Black (just messing with you now) and last but not least Matt Damon.

Source: Moviepilot