Ahead of the release of the third Transformers movie, Shia LaBeouf has been talking to the media a lot (even enlightening us to things like “Spice Girl Feminism”), and recently he announced that while he will not be returning to the Transformers franchise, he might be returning to Indiana Jones. In other news, did he just confirm a fifth Indiana Jones movie? Let’s see what Mr. The Beef had to say, shall we?
First, the rather obvious news that he will not be coming back for another romp with Optimus Prime et al. After three movies, the prospect of a fourth in the near future is pretty bleak, and probably not all that wanted. According to LaBeouf, director Michael Bay feels the same way:
I’m not coming back to do another one. I don’t think [Michael Bay] will either. It still is a hot property, I think, especially coming out of the third one. So I imagine they’ll reboot it at some point with someone else.
And it looks like LaBeouf has about as much faith in the “original Hollywood idea” as we do. Because that’s just what Hollywood is going to convince us we need: even more Transformers. Hey, maybe “awesome but stupid movie maker” Brett Ratner can take over! I’m sure he’d love to do a movie that doesn’t require a story, just fighting robots, fighting robots, fighting robots!
But what of this fifth Indiana Jones movie? There has been talk about one since right after the fourth one, which was a box office success, but a critical failure. Talk of a plot centered around the Bermuda Triangle has even been floating around, and Harrison Ford says he’s on board. But has LaBeouf made it officially official?
[Harrison Ford] said he’s staying in the gym, he said he’s heard no word, but he does know that [George Lucas] is out there looking for a MacGuffin.
Well, that’s hardly a confirmation, more of a “They’re trying to find plot stuff so they can write a script first, and then there might be a fifth movie.” So we are going to take this with a grain of optimistic salt.
