Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis?

Back in May, George Lucas excitedly told Fox News that he had an idea to make a new Indiana Jones movie without Harrison Ford.

“I haven’t even told Steven or Harrison this,” Lucas said. “But I have an idea to make Shia [LeBeouf] the lead character next time and have Harrison [Ford] come back like Sean Connery did in the last movie. I can see it working out.”

Lucas sat down with the AP earlier this week and assured them if there were to be a fifth Indy film, stating that there is the possibility of such, it would star Harrison Ford. But he said that a Mutt Williams spin-off film is also possible, but it wouldn’t be an Indiana Jones film.

“If Indiana Jones wasn’t in it, you’d have to call it ‘Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis.’ … “Yeah, it’s ‘Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis.’”

With George, you never know if he’s joking or not. Could his idea really have been Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis?  Would anyone really pay to see such a movie?  Apparently Lucas gave out the same title to MTV during their interview as well. So either he thinks its funny or is testing the waters. Please say it was a joke.

  • Roberto
    Will they CG in a pinky for continuity, or write the missing digit into the script? Knowing Lucas it will be the CG pinky. Cuz it costs more.
  • Christopher Edwards
    George Lucas is clutching at strings for ideas with this.

    But maybe if he let's go a little with the 5th will be the better one we deserve
  • Jessica D
    No kidding he says people in Hollywood aren't paying him attention/listening to him anymore, he's gone! That's too bad.
    God forbid he add any more animated FX prairy dogs to any other movies, it was bad enough in Indy 4. Sheesh.
  • J. Luna
    ...Peter don't mention George, you'll encourage him. The guy is slowly turning into our crazy uncle who lives in the attic. ...Yet sadly, deep down, I'm kind of loving this.
  • Nathan
    Okay, I thought the consensus among sane people was that the Last Indiana Jones was bad and that Shia LeBeouf was not exactly a high note. Why are we still talking about this?
  • J. Luna
    CORRECTION: WAIT! Not, the movie Idea. The Crazy uncle thing! Just had to clear that up!
  • mayh3m
    I think i just threw up in my mouth..

    Would someone go down to Merrin County and do him in for good already.
  • I think it's safe to say that Lucas has completely lost it. His creativity, his talent, it's been diluted and rendered useless.
  • A Better Class of Criminal
    Oh dear sweet Jar-Jar Binks! Holy Ewoks! By Nuclear Airborne Fridges!

    This is not good, this is not very good at all.
  • J.D.
    I think we need a Short Round spin-off first.
  • At the end of 4 I could feel the germ of conception. I gave a little shudder and whispered "for the love of god, no."
  • Project Thunder
    I'd watch it.
  • charles
    It was clearly a joke. But Shia hand all screwed up I don't see them making anything.
  • Harrison and Steve
    george made that title up just to piss people off... the same reason he (we) made the fourth one. sad isnt it?
  • igroveman
    someone arrest this man.
  • ---J-E.-,R,--Y --B-U.-T-L-E-R
    George Lucas is a god amongst mortal men. I didn't even read this entry, I just know that it exudes uberness.

    All things Lucas do. All things.
  • gocitizen
    Gearge Lucas and the Search for Modern Relevance
  • ---J-E.-,R,--Y --B-U.-T-L-E-R
    Haha.


    :\


    I think he obtained that. Unless you're like 5, modern should include at least the 80's. Purty sure he was cinematically kicking ass and taking names during that period.
  • Matt
    Lucas here's an idea...instead of dragging out the Indiana Jones series and making animated "between star wars episodes" movies, how about you get a new idea?
  • Jelohac
    I hope it's all true.

    I love going to the movie theater and watching Lucas' 2 hour commercials for plastic toys and video games.
  • freemachine
    MUTT WILLIAMS AND THE SEARCH FOR SHIA'S FINGER
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  • Diel
    Seriously though someone needs to stop him before he molests everything that people love. People need to do anything, and I fucking mean "anything" to stop this crazed fuck. What ever it takes I'm up for it.

    Do it for the children, just think of the children. Imagine if you will a brighter future where children don't have to be afraid of uncle Georgie's neck sack trying to molest their tiny little movie cornholes.

    So please rise up and stop this mother fucker, and I guarantee whoever does it will become an international hero, it'll be like the opposite of Oswald shooting Kennedy.
  • VanGrue
    I wouldn't let them pay -me- to go see that.
  • Is there anything left from our Childhoods for George Lucas to kill? Perhaps he could travel back to the moment each and everyone of us touched a girl for the first time (ok the fair few of us) and digitally alter it so the girl touched us first and we only touched back in defense then, that was it, and we keep in touch via email but have never seen each other again. But a few of us remember how it really was...
  • JJ
    Holy crap. First ... you say you hate it when Lucas writes the Mutt character into the story (probably the part of "Crystal Skull" that worked best, frankly) ... now you give him grief when he says Mutt wouldn't continue.

    The Elvis title was a JOKE, for crying out loud. Grow a backbone.

    Yeah, Lucas's creativity has been wasted. He finally gives you an Indiana Jones movie and it doesn't make you have an orgasm (probably due to the DIRECTOR, Steven Spielberg, who put in those prairie dogs) and you cry that you've been raped and plundered and your childhood is ruined.

    Aw, go put in your DVDs of "Raiders" and "Star Wars" and pine away for the rest of your life. George rightly has better things to do, things that give him and (apparently) millions of people pleasure. Did you realize that, even WITH "Dark Knight," "Crystal Skull" remains the BIGGEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR worldwide? Someone liked it.

    And some of us still like to simply be entertained.
  • Mikey M
    Shia is overrated. Lucas is overrated. No plans to see anything he makes again.
    Crap.
  • Sounds more like that Bubba Ho Tep sequel, lol. George Lucas's neck VS. Bruce Campbell's chin.

    WHO WILL BE VICTOR???
  • Jim Burrows
    George Lucas is a huge Elvis fan. I am surprised he has yet to tackle Elvis head on, like in a biography.

    Moreover, the "search for Elvis" is already on, and on so many levels, that a movie with Lucas at the helm could make a lot of sense.

    Presley's death, a tragedy of gargantuan proportions because of what we know happened to him, but also because of the effect it had, on millions, made sure he became, in death, even more "present" than he was the last years of his life.

    It doesn't matter if 10 million people in America can't stand the sight of him, since a much larger segment does and with a vengeance.

    And let's not even start talking about how is he viewed worldwiide... Otherwise, why 16 million people would pay to see his grave, 50 percent coming from regions far, far from Memphis? And why woud editors, pretty serious people, if I may add, agree to be associated with, thus, far, the editing of 1,134 biographies, in print, detailing numerous periods of his life.

    In fact, Presley is one of the rarest of celebrities whose life took him to places which Lucas could use, as a means to "finding him", with enough villains, like the East Germans and Russians who called Presley, in 1956, a tool of the US against communism?

    And weren't Putin, the current Prime Minister, and Boris Yeltsin, the deceased President, some of Elvis' greatest fans? And how different these two were? Very different. Presley' appeal, cut across a set of fine divided lines, even in countries, or small regions.

    He was mentioned by the current President of France, as an "universal icon", his witnesses none other than the members of a joint Session of the US Congress, less than 6 months ago.

    And why is Grecalend the only private home, other than the White House, or any of the Presidential retreats, to have hosted a meeting between a Foreign Head of State, and the sitting President of the United States. It happened with Primer Minister Koizumi.

    The search for Elvis can not be limited to the obvious, namely the idea that he faked his own death in 1977, or to the ever increasing number of Elvis impersonators, or his recurring presence, whenever someone does something only he did, or to the breaking of his records, in the charts, in the number of US postage stamps which were sold, or in the typical, "bigger than Elvis", "as big as Elvis", "the new Elvis", as well as all the referencing he gets, like in the "Elvis of this", or "the Elvis of that"

    The search for Elvis ( his spirit), is on, precisely because he continues to be controversial, hated, villified, inspite of a much larger fan base that defends him.

    The number of ideas one could concoct, in regards to this "search", is staggering, and Lucas knows it...

    So, don't be surprised, and don't be pompous to discard him (Lucas), because he chose a subject (Presley), you don't appreciate, or even like. He was, anc continues to be liked by numbers that keep growing, and that's a fact.
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