Sean Connery took a retirement from acting to enjoy the spoils of his career and was never seen again on screen since bowing out on a low note with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Wild speculation online seems to be all the buzz suggesting that Connery could be lured out of retirement with a role in a fifth Indiana Jones film.
Digital Spy reports:
“Steven Spielberg has been working on a script with George Lucas and there is an element of the story that could see Sean returning. Anything is possible in these movies and if Sean wants to return he will become central to the new story.”
Earlier this week, Harrison Ford revealed that he would be happy to reprise his lead role in the franchise, as long as the script was “good enough”.
It makes sense that they would tempt him back, as his character was the best part of The Last Crusade. But I honestly don’t ever see this happening.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, although a financial success was not critically acclaimed, and though the only reason to make another Indiana Jones film would be if it were “better” in every way, I don’t know that it could be good enough to lure Connery out of retirement. Maybe if it was something fun, Connery would make a cameo (Henry Jones Sr wasn’t invited to the wedding) but even that would be a stretch.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see Connery return. But with all the gags and complaints about Ford’s age in these, can we really expect much out of an 80 year old Connery?
Well, when I’m watching a movie about an archaeologist who does more demolition than actual archaeology, realism is the last thing I’m looking for.
I didn’t hate the latest Indiana Jones film so I’m not against continuing the franchise. Just get rid of Shia The Beef.
We need Connery in as many GOOD movies as humanly possible before he buys the farm.
In other words, it may or may not be a good idea for Connery to be in Indy 5?
I love that ol’ bastard he’s hilarious. Bring him back.
“hello room service? this is the penthouse, do you have any snacks, drinks?”
“Your best, losers always talk about their best, winners go home and f@&K the prom queen.”
Eh, it could work. I’m not quick to judge on this matter. I loved Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but there is no way it could ever hold up to Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. I just want to be able to go back into a theater and sit down and just listen to that kick-ass John Williams theme with Indy doing something cool. And in the theater. I was born in 1991, so I missed out on the first three in theaters, so Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was my only Indy movie in the theaters. Unless they decide that as a promotion that they would play all four of the last ones back to back to back to back before the fifth one.
Ways to bring him back:
– Flashback scene
– Supernatural (like a ghost, for example)
– as mentioned, events could take place before Crystal Skull
Now, all that aside
I hated the character in The Last Crusade
Now, all that aside
Sir Sean Connery will stay retired- he was offered the last time around and said no. I wish he’d change his mind and do other films at least in voice. But he’s stuck to his choices. Let him be.
“I hated the character in The Last Crusade.”
That’s a little messed up. What could they have possibly done to make you like the character more?
To each is to own…
Yeah pretty sure they ‘implied’ he was dead but seeing how they ‘nuked the fridge’ on the last one there’s no stopping them from bringing him back.
Just depends on if its cleverly written.
This last movie was an utter and complete abortion. Whoever thought the last one was “good enough” should stay far far far away from this series for the rest of their career.
Agreed.
If Jones Sr. is in the next one it doesnt have to take place after Crystal Skull – it will take place before and after Last Crusade.
They killed Connery’s character in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It was subtle, but it was there.
In the scene where Indy sulks over his lot in life with Jim Broadbent, the scene where he gives the “life starts taking things away” line, he says “First Dad, now this.”
And then at the end of the film, when proud pappy Jones is snuggling the wreck that was Karen Allen, and Shia wants to climb down the pyramid, Indy looks up at the sky and says “Somewhere up there, your grandfather’s laughing.”
Both lines seem to go out of their way to explain Connery’s absence in the film as being due to his character’s offscreen death. Unless of course, Henry Jones was lured away from life on terra firma to sail the skies with some busty young air pirates.
I still feel a little uneasy about the words “Good Enough”
The first three Indiana Jones movies weren’t “Good Enough” they were “Great!”
If your gonna Half-Ass a great film saga than you should bother to make anymore!!
Wow. It would take a lot of booze and me yelling “lalalalalala” with my fingers in my ears each time Short Round was on screen to conclude Temple of Doom was great. I’ll grant you the other two though.
Temple Of Doom was pretty awesome. Not as good as the other two, but the 2nd and 3rd acts were really well structured in terms of action. REALLY well structured. The scenes with the minecart and where they’re climbing the broken bridge are absolutely seminal in the world of action films.
So yeah, Temple Of Doom was pretty great, the way I see it.
every person i know that isnt a movie fan geek loved short round…i loved him cause i thought he was a total joke…..really i dont see why people hated him…a fucking chinese hustling kid in india OMFG YES!
I think they need to do a pre-KOTCS story line. That way we won’t have that stupid Mutt character and Henry Jones Sr. will still be alive.
Even though Henry Jones Sr. drank from the Holy Grail, it doesn’t mean he was going to live forever. Now if he stayed in the cave like the knight did, and didn’t cross the seal at the entrance, then he would’ve stayed alive forever. But he left so that means he would be mortal again.
What James said here ^ In order to hold on to immortality, one must stay in the cave. Therefore, by the time of KotCS, he had passed away.
That said, another father-son adventure akin to Last Crusade would be great. The dynamics between Forn and Connery were amazing.
Well, taking into consideration that Henry Jones drank from the holy grail thus gaining eternal life, you’d figure he can be as old as that knight that guarded it. That being said, unless a rock fell on him, how could his character not be in Crystal Skull?
I can totally see this happening. I’m hoping it does. He did LOEG, why wouldn’t he do this? It’s still Speilberg and Lucas, everyone would jump at the chance to work with them. There were effin aliens in the last one, I’m sure they can bring back his character. No one ever really retires from acting, they just take breaks.
The damage is done on this franchise. If surving a nuclear explosion, commie bashing monkey arent nails in the coffin, then we must be getting closer to Idiocracy
Crystal Skull had a ton of issues. I’m not sure “commie bashing” was really one of them. Or surviving a nuclear explosion, either. They could have kept that part in and still saved the movie.
I think he was referring to the monkeys that attacked the villians rather than any political stance the film was taking….
Oh, that. That was pretty lame. Yeah, they definitely shouldn’t have had that in there. That was messed up.
jake wtf if u didnt notice the monkey with his shai haircut kelping indy attack the commies your blinf..and even with bad science a fridge wont save u from a nuke….the movie was crap 100% and the people who liked it was cause of nostalgia….this series is over and ford hasnt made anything good in days…hmmm kinda like spielberg!
Crystal Skull was one of the weakest, most overhyped films of the year, and hard evidence that Lucas and Spielberg are not what they used to be.
Yes, because the coal car chase, and falling out of an airplane with nothing but an inflatable life raft fell in the realm of reality.
I wish he would have made a cameo at Indiana’s wedding at the end of Crystal Skull.
Good, that means a pre-Crystal Skull story line which means NO SHIA!!!! WOOT!!!!
Well for one thing, they said Henry Jones Sr. was dead, so unless it’s a two-minute flashback or (god forbid) time travel, I see NO way Connery could return. but then again he is immortal(a la Last Crusade), so maybe they’ll just overlook it.
I’d love to see ol’ Sean back, and he said Indy would be the ONLY reason to come out of retirement, but I just don’t see it happening.
They were only immortal if they stayed in the temple.
Indy only needs the power of the Quickening to bring Connery back.
Didn’t they implied in Crystal Skull that Sean Connery’s character was dead? I only saw the movie once but I’m pretty sure it was mentioned.