{"id":11647,"date":"2020-02-03T12:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=11647"},"modified":"2020-02-04T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:24:20","slug":"kathleen-kennedy-offers-an-intriguing-update-on-the-future-of-indiana-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/kathleen-kennedy-offers-indiana-jones-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Kennedy Offers An Intriguing Update On The Future Of &#8216;Indiana Jones&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucasfilm head and producer Kathleen Kennedy was honored at the BAFTAs this past weekend with the BAFTA Fellowship Award, which is the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious award is well-deserved and a long time coming for Kennedy, who has had a close relationship with the U.K. film industry for decades, including numerous Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies being filmed there. After receiving the award, she was interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/entertainment-arts-51350889\/indiana-jones-producer-kathleen-kennedy-is-the-recipient-of-the-bafta-fellowship-award\">BBC News<\/a> and she offered a few brief but interesting updates about the next Indiana Jones movie which has been in development for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s far enough along that the script is being hammered away at, she said: &#8220;We&#8217;re working away getting the script to where we want it to be and then we&#8217;ll be ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of fans have been wondering if this would be a sequel or a true franchise reboot. 2008&#8217;s <em>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/em> wasn&#8217;t particularly well-received and it left plenty of moviegoers wondering if a complete overhaul was needed. But Kennedy nipped those questions in the bud during the interview, explaining that it&#8217;s not a reboot but a continuation.<\/p>\n<p>She finished with confirming that Harrison Ford would be back, &#8220;Harrison Ford will be involved&#8230;He can&#8217;t wait.&#8221; However, whether or not we&#8217;ll see a return of Shia LaBeouf as Henry &#8220;Mutt&#8221; Williams, Indy&#8217;s son with Marion Williams, remains to be seen. We&#8217;ll keep you updated when we get more news about the future of the Indiana Jones franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucasfilm head and producer Kathleen Kennedy was honored at the BAFTAs this past weekend with the BAFTA Fellowship Award, which is the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The prestigious award is well-deserved and a long time coming for Kennedy, who has had a close relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-11647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11654,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions\/11654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}