We like to criticize reboots and endless sequels around here, and with good reason: They're mostly lame and there's just too many of them.
But now the problem is getting so acute that they're starting to reboot individual characters within the sequels themselves!
[F]or the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones film director James Mangold (who took over helming the franchise from Steven Spielberg) has concocted a sequence where viewers will be able to experience Ford/Indy back in his prime.
According to an upcoming issue of Empire, the film's opening will be set in 1944 – about eight years after the events in Raiders took place. De-aging technology will have Ford going up against Nazis in a castle. Old footage of the actor was utilized to help create the illusion, along with the actor's original jacket from Raiders.
Ugh. This is the kind of thing that makes me just want to cut the ropes on the bridge and end it all.
There's only one kind of aging I want to see in an Indiana Jones movie and you know exactly what it is:
