What the hell happened to Harrison Ford? For nearly 2 decades anything this guy touched tuned into pure virgin tears dripping on piles of gold. He was untouchable. He was always a lock. And then he went straight to hell and has done nothing but pure crap for 10 years. Some thought that a new Indiana Jones movie would reestablish him as one of the jewels of the Hollywood crown. As it turns out most people hated Indy 4 and Ford is back to just being the sweat band.
In this past 10 year stretch, Ford has tried a couple of comedies (Hollywood Homicide, Six Days Seven Nights) and it’s really not his forte (then again, nothing has recently). But word has now come out that Ford is going to try the comedy route again by playing a news anchor in the comedy “Morning Glory”. The folks over at Movieweb give us this:
Roger Michell is directing the comedy that revolves around a TV news producer who is trying to whip her program into shape by controlling the two feuding news anchors. Ford will play one of the anchors and Rachel McAdams is in negotiations to portray the producer. The other news anchor hasn’t been set yet.
I think my interest in this movie will completely depend on who they get as the other anchor Ford is feuding with. For example, seeing Ford opposite Steve Carrell or someone like Morgan Freeman would be hilarious. Seeing him put opposite just some young Hollywood flavor of the month (like they did in Hollywood Homicide) would make me avoid it. But I can see them doing something stupid like that.
Good Article!!!
I think Harrison Ford is best suited for the likes of the fugitive!! For me his appearance in movies all best suit a normal person put into extreme circumstances. Like The fugitive!! maybe even Firewall!!
John…WTF?
Most people hated Indy 4?? That’s a big pile of *over-generalization* isn’t it?? I mean Indy 4 missed many of our expectations, but we didn’t “hate” it. It could have been alot better, but wasn’t an atrocity (like “The Happening”). Oh and one more thing…Harrison Ford is alot older now than in the American Graffiti/Star Wars/Indy 80’s and has to act from an entirely different perspective to be believable. He’s not the rough/tough chick-magnet Indy/Blade Runner that he used to be, though he did pretty good in Indy 4. I think he’s ready for a new kind of role – maybe in a drama, love story, comedy. If given the right role, Ford could out-act anybody.