{"id":39912,"date":"2013-12-06T18:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/mice-why-did-it-have-to-be-mice.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:42:38","slug":"mice-why-did-it-have-to-be-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/mice-why-did-it-have-to-be-mice.html","title":{"rendered":"Mice &#8230; why did it have to be \u00a0mice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Disney now owns the &quot;Indiana Jones&quot; franchise, except for distribution rights for the first four films which Paramount retains.<\/p>\n<p>So one wonders what&#39;s up next? More movies? TV shows? Theme park rides \/ lands? &quot;Young Indiana Jones&quot; fare?<\/p>\n<p>My favorite comment from below the Variety article: &quot;Marion Ravenwood &#8212; Disney\u2019s newest princess&quot; (cue the Disney Princess drinking game fan art &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112539429469437111274'>Curt Thompson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh my gravy. I haven&#39;t seen a single House take over this much fantasy landscape since the Lannisters said &#39;Screw it, let&#39;s just let the little bastard be king.&#39;<\/p>\n<p>Also the rumors that Ford held out on playing Han Solo again until he could get a deal for another Indy movie are &#8230;. interesting. And they make sense. And will also, no doubt, pad Mr. Ford&#39;s pockets for another thirty years of vanity projects like <i>Morning Glory<\/i>. (Which was surprisingly good, if you missed it.)\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/xEemDYTIUDlWYI8H6A_N9do4svlGLmqSxn-7TmVig_9cU5H7D9LyBNTn8ClEWHI4q-Sm7WGzuosQLN-baF6816C6rB3kkOI8ohYa2tu5G11Ygz3RkAoOK_RnPQGoinriklkczKMZ=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/film\/news\/disney-acquires-indiana-jones-rights-from-paramount-1200927216\/'>Disney Takes Over Rights to &#8216;Indiana Jones&#8217; Franchise<\/a><br \/>\n                                                The Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Pictures have reached a distribution and marketing agreement for the Indiana Jones franchise. Under the arrangement, Disney gains distribution and marketing ri&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MUUCXorWAEN' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney now owns the &quot;Indiana Jones&quot; franchise, except for distribution rights for the first four films which Paramount retains. So one wonders what&#39;s up next? More movies? TV shows? Theme park rides \/ lands? &quot;Young Indiana Jones&quot; fare? My favorite comment from below the Variety article: &quot;Marion Ravenwood &#8212; Disney\u2019s newest princess&quot; (cue the Disney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/mice-why-did-it-have-to-be-mice.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mice &#8230; why did it have to be \u00a0mice?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,263,41,372],"tags":[502],"class_list":["post-39912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-disney","category-media-movies","category-star-wars-media-movies","tag-indiana-jones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7798,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/dr_jones.html","url_meta":{"origin":39912,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Jones?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Aug-05 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"More rumors regarding the next hypothetical Indiana Jones movie. 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