what if Indy 5 ends with him walking out of Star Wars, and he’s like “that was nonsense”

Raiders came out in 1981 and took place in 1936, 45 years earlier. At that pace, an Indiana Jones movie coming out five years from now could have Indy going to see Raiders in the theater.

In the 2017 movie they said he was still a juvenile and still growing.  He had40 years or so to keep growing.  But having said that, didn’t Godzilla look smaller in the trailer than he was in the previous movies?

If they do it right, Vietnam could make an interesting backdrop to an Indiana Jones adventure. There’s plenty of Southeast Asian history and mythology that could provide a macguffin for Indy to need to navigate the war.

Where’s Godzilla’s evolution? You can’t just show Kong, and then fiend your bothered. Without having to go so far back, the 2017 version of Kong has been well established as a teen if you will, not a full grown Kong.

Not really. The one labeled '2017' there took place in 1973. Where it was established that he was still young for his species. 

There are exceptions to the rule, of course, but often that’s just part of the titling/numbering tradition. Creed uses numbers, and Roman numerals at that, because it’s a spinoff of the Rocky series, which used numbered titles until Rocky Balboa.

Eh, studios have been phasing out numerals since the ‘90s. Fox started the trend with Die Hard With A Vengeance and Alien Resurrection. I think the idea was that if a movie had a number after the title it felt like a generic product.

I can’t say that I’ve seen any of the other shows/movies that you mentioned (I’m way behind on quite a few series), but I agree completely about Doctor Who being a continuation. Specifically in terms of the ‘Time War.’ That goes back at least as far as Remembrance of the Daleks (with the Hand of Rassilon being given…

When it was coined in the ‘00s, “reboot” generally referred to franchises that had gotten too old or silly to be sustainable. The metaphor was obvious. If your computer is buggy or running slowly, then you restart it in the hopes that this resolves the issue. This was the case with Batman circa 2005: the general…

Yeah I can see that, though for me growing up a “remake” used to mean “making the same thing again.” (Insert snicker here about how films in general have lost originality). That could be a holdover from my baby boomer dad loving movies like Beau Geste*, so the word “remake” was defined pretty basically as mostly the…

It all comes down to how you define the words. I think of reboot as restarting a universe or character in a way that tells a different narrative. So Spiderman and Batman have been rebooted a bunch of times. Remake is making the same thing again. It may have tweaks, but it’s essentially the same story. The 1998 Psycho…

Can we please stop calling things with ‘no connection to the original material’ reboots. They’re just new properties too lazy to come up with their own name. 

I’m guessing the decision to bring in Maguire and Garfield was all Sony’s. Hey presto! Twenty-year-old Spider-Man movie is now part of the multiverse! Woo-hoo!

You’d be completely different physically but also psychologically as well. Brains are physical things and are you sure everything would happen in the same way? Your brother or sister are the results of just one of 5 billion sperm and obviously completely different people from you.

Shazam and the first Wonder Woman were fantastic, and Aquaman was pretty fun.

As a writer who is playing with multiverse stuff, I can tell you my own lore’s reason for a character looking different in one universe but not another: sperm. There’s five billion sperm in the average ejaculation, and only one makes it to the egg. If any of the other sperm were to make it, you’d be completely…

Yeah, I think a lot of this is really Sony’s attempt to build up their own “Spider-Verse” by retconning the Raimi/Maguire and Webb/Garfield movies into a loose continuity with the Holland movies, along with their non-Marvel spinoffs like Venom and Morbius. Ultimately it won’t have much bearing on Marvel’s plans for a…

idk that Disney’s Marvel are really rushing into it. Spider-verse was Sony’s follow-up to decades of reboots to Spider-man specifically; and the MCU proper is only just getting into multiverse stuff after after telling a complete and sprawling story already (and even then, we’ve had hints and misdirects to build up to…