Harrison Ford Still Fits Into Indy's Tight Trousers
Producers of the movie, currently being filmed on Hawaii's Big Island, say there's no need to worry. Ford is as fit as ever. "I have to say, he looks amazing," said Kathleen Kennedy, the film's co-executive producer, along with George Lucas. "He looks fantastic in the outfit." Ford, who first introduced Indiana Jones' in the 1981 classic "Raiders of the Lost Ark," is actually doing many of his own stunts in the latest film. "He's doing them, he just has a few more ice packs and a few more massages," Kennedy said. The movie just completed the first of three weeks of filming in Hawaii, after spending a week each in New Mexico and Connecticut. The lush areas are filling in as a South American rain forest. The film's biggest action sequences are being filmed in Hawaii. Producer Frank Marshall compared one scene to the white-knuckled truck chase in the desert in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "It's that level," he said. The latest adventure is set in the 1950s and, in addition to Ford, stars Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone and Jim Broadbent. Lucas and director Steven Spielberg have not released the title of the film, scheduled for release May 22, 2008.
Harrison Ford may be 65 but he still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers. But fans are curious to see if, 18 years after "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Ford can live up to the physical rigors of the globe-trotting archaeologist in the fourth installment of the series.
July 16, 2007 | |
