Indy 5 fan fiction - Indiana Jones and The Lost City of Atlantis

Indy and Sabrina (who is now estranged from Redford. she is actually a British spy sent to infiltrate Redford and his gang who are working for a sinister secret organisation who are attempting to solve the mystrey) set off to recover the vial which resides in the London science university. While the implication of uncovering the truth behind everything is great, Indy has had too many experiences and has learned some things are best left unknown and come at too great a price. He plans to do as Rolanberg asked and take it to Area 51. there follows a series of a non stop action sequences in Africa (jungles, deserts, wildlife etc - one sequence would involve Indy going up against a bunch of lions with just his whip) as Indy and Sabrina evade Redford and his shifty gang and then London where Indy retrieves the vial at the university. but it is when Indy attempts to take it to the US that they are eventually captured. Redford takes the vial and then leaves them for dead. (he reveals who hes working for - a sinister SPECTRE like organisation with deep connections to the Nazis who are set on world domination) But Indy saves them in spectacular style and they give chase..

At the Arctic since he now has the 7 vials Redford and his gang are able to navigate their way from the destroyed tomb of the gods through a gateway in the strange abyss to the vast underground ancient city

Indy and Sabrina are following them...and luckily they too are able to pass through 'the gateway' now it has been opened.. They are astounded. could it really be Atlantis!? They find a chamber of holographic starmaps and ancient manuscripts that has already been viewed by redford.. It tells them everything...the secrets behind life on earth..

As Rolanberg feared - 'Atlantis' is actually an ancient gigantic generator that when activated slows the worlds rotation causing the continents to sink, thereby cleansing the world of evil and bringing peace.

The seven Vials relate to the seven days of creation fable and are in fact ancient storage units for DNA that when the world has been destroyed can be used to repopulate the planet. Basically Noahs Ark! (which too could be referenced)

Eons ago Ancient Gods made the device that slows the world down, which would happen if the world had descended into total war/chaos and needed 'rebooting'...or if someone mad/evil (like Redford) wanted to unite the vials for personal gratification (the desire to become a god). The DNA would then be used to make new species. And then the cycle would begin again. Presided over by those protected in the underground 'city' who would become immortal as the abyss where the city is situated is nothingness. it exists outside of time. so they would really become 'Immortal gods'.

It happened once before when the real Atlantis sank beneath the waves. And even before that with Noah. Who knows how many times in prehistory. (maybe even on Mars) The vials were hidden round the globe by those desperate to prevent this from happening again. Yet over the years certain individuals would attempt to solve the mystery and return them..

Indy is about to find out who exactly the ancient gods actually were (the greek gods? Martians?) when suddenly they are captured by redford. Indy confronts Redford about the revelations and is certain he wont now go ahead with his plans as it would potentially mean the end of the world. But hes beyond shocked when Redford tells him he knew what this place was all along and plans to go ahead with it! (as he has been driven insane with the desire to become a god!-it would be revealed hed been affected by something evil when he fell into the abyss in the opening and then went back..hed stared into the great abyss and lost his mind. maybe being influenced by whatever created it. shades of Lovecraft) he take his position and unites the Vials..

The generator activates, At first it appears to be working as Redford imagined and he becomes deaged and like a deity in appearance. but then Indy breaks free and kicks one of the vials free disabling the mechanism. It causes a catastrophic malfunction. Redford is graphically 'sucked dry' by the machine. and his goons are killed in the destruction that leads to only cause a localised earthquake, not the end of world..

the mountain starts to sink and Indy and Sabrina escape . get to their plane and take off. they watch as 'Atlantis' sinks further into the abyss

Indy returns to the states and is reunited with Marion for Christmas

The End

some points:
-For the opening set 1948, through CGI wed see Indy in his late 40s (48/49 as Indy DOB 1899), so Ford would look like he did around the time of the late 80s/early 90s (Ford DOB 1942), so Last Crusade, Patriot Games, Fugitive, and that Young Indy ep set in 1950 would be a template (so might Indy have a beard?) - even though Crusade was set in 1938, just 2 years after Raiders when Indy would be in his late 30s. But then Fords always played younger as Indy (apart from the Young Indy ep). In Crystal Skull set 1957 Indy was supposed to be late 50s (57/58) but Ford was 65 when filming. And for 1967 it'd be 78/79 year old Ford so hed be playing about 10 years younger like he did in Crusade and Crystal Skull. And CG deaged Sam Neill would be looking like he did in the Jurassic Parks/Event Horizon era

-as with all the movies thered be a bunch of homages/nods to what has come before. 1948/1967 would be 10 years after TLC/10 years after KOTCS - a 19 year gap like between those (wed have seen Indy in each decade from 30s-60s). The Belloq like 'Anti Indy' (Other considerations before Neill were actors with previous Indy connections - Tom Selleck (original choice for Indy) and Kevin Costner (linked to Indy 4 for a while as a rival/brother), but decided Neill be best at becoming possessed/evil - see Omen/Event Horizon etc. and was kind of like an Indy figure in Spielbergs JP (which was originally meant for Ford). The opening booby traps would recall the start of Raiders. The apparent death of Redford falling into an abyss would recall the end of TLC with Elsa/Indy. The female lead seemingly working with the villain would recall Elsa (although shes turns out good who betrays the villain. so like a bond girl in that respect). Snakes/Bugs/Rats/Ants...Lions? (a battle that would recall the opening of TLC). Indy realising the greater good comes before fortune and glory (continuing the progression of the character). Indy and female being left for dead after recovering the artefact - like Raiders snake pit. Redford revealed to be working for an evil organisation (like the Nazis/SPECTRE) but putting his own desires of immortality/godhood above them even - like Belloq/Donovan/Spalko. Indy sneakily following the villain to uncover the truth - like end of TLC. The end getting to the lost city would recall getting to the grail having to pass through an abyss. Uncovering incredible secrets of mankind but being unable to stay long enough to look at/understand them before everything goes to pot - similar to the end of Raiders/Crusade/Skull. Returning the vials and connecting them to activate the machine - sim to returning the crystal skull and connecting them to active the saucer. Doom/Skull like possession of Redford. Redfords quest for immortality and graphic death would recall Donovan as well as Belloq and Spalko. Aliens again! (But then the aliens in Indy 4 werent aliens, they were 'interdimentional beings' lol) but here only ever referred to as 'ancient gods' - the implication that its aliens would be sort of there but never said - more to do with Greek mythology (zeus, mars god of war, mount Olympus etc) and/or Lovecraft

-The McGuffin is implied to be the oft mooted Atlantis (but not in a sea based adventure as one would expect) but it also turns out to be a Noah/2012 apocalyptic thing (so not one McGuffin like the previous Indys - Ark, Grail etc - but maybe it could tie in several mythologies like the bible/Noah, Atlantis, Greek mythology, hollow earth, hell holes etc) with elements of various SF movies like 2001/The 5th Element/Prometheus/Alien (the Space Jockey derelict scene), and Lovecrafts stuff - At The Mountains of Madness etc (Lovecraft/ATMOM was done in the comic series 'IJ and The Tomb of the Gods' which came out in 2008 and was a kind of alternative alien story to KOTCS. It was very much like a comic adaptation of an unmade Indy movie.) Theres probably some similarities to the Fate of Atlantis game/comic and maybe other stuff of the Indy EU. (ok indy has already sort of 'done' Atlantis, but then Crystal Skull was used before Indy 4 in an Indy ride or game, and FOA is pretty old/forgotten now. plus didnt SW:TFA use stuff that had already been done in the SW EU)

(some points cont)
- The first three movies drew influence from 1930s film stuff like cliffhanger serials, adventures in foreign lands, ancient cultures/artefacts, treasure hunting. Crystal Skull was reflecting the popular film genres of the 1950s which was science fiction B movies involving alien invasion/flying saucers, the red scare, atomic war. So for this set in the 60s maybe the main influence could be of the dystopian SF disaster genre. Not the disaster genre that is associated with the 70s the big movies with the big casts (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno etc) im talking about the eerie/strange/scary/trippy world ending SF disaster B movies of the 60s and early 70s (Atlantis the Lost Continent, The Time Machine, Mysterious Island, Day Earth Caught Fire, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, First Men in the Moon, The Time Travelers, Quatermass and the Pit, 2001, Planet of the Apes, Doppelgänger, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain, Omega Man) plus the eeriness/strangeness/scariness of 60s tv shows like Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, The Invaders, and even Star Trek (Its often forgotten that the original series had an eerie, uncanny vibe not a million light years from 'The Twilight Zone' - the ship alone charting a shadow haunted universe that hid some deeply strange things). And also the spy genre the main being the Connery 007 films of that era (Bond being directly responsible for Indy in the first place both off screen and on!)- and the 007 films became abit SFy by the late 60s (1967s You Only Live Twice – SPECTRE villain based in hollowed out volcano with world ending plan)

-the tone would be of an eerie unsettling 'horror' feel, akin to the previous Indy films. maybe more so. the scares and eeriness of uncovering the truth, creating an atmosphere full of supernatural awe and dread which will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. We should be scared, and creeped out, by the implications of the ideas presented, and the sense of weirdness/eeriness akin to those 60s SF B movies but on a giant scale (like Indy 1-3 with the serials and Indy 4 with the 50s SF B movies).. the horror will be in reaction to the concepts unfolding...what it means for mankind/its origins...where we came from...who or what is behind it and why...our place in the universe etc.. the unfathomable big questions we might be better off not knowing the answers to (very Lovecraftian). Also itd be a return to the gritty realism feel of Raiders for the action and characters (not so much the comedic romp style of the sequels) with solo Indy & girl (not so much the group of adventurers in the sequels)

--this is abit obvious but like Indy 4 with the 1950s trappings (fashions/diners/drag racing/Elvis/Brando/reds paranoia/atomic age/50s Sci fi B movie pulp magazine stuff etc) this would reflect the period of the late 60s - so that would mean the fashions, Beatles/Stones, 60s looking Bond girl type female lead, Vietnam, JFK conspiracies, NASA/Apollo, LSD, espionage/007 (with regard to the Bond like girl working for the secret service and the villains SPECTRE like evil organisation connections. maybe even have Indy walk past a cinema showing You Only Live Twice as a nod to Connery/Indys origins, and it being the fifth 007 movie like this being the 5th Indy)

-set in locations Indy films have never been before (Arctic, Africa, London). Plus set at Christmas it give it a Xmasy vibe (which would be apparent in Indys home town scenes - abit like Gremlins' Kingston Falls). Would give it a different feel to the other films.
(Maybe release it at Christmas instead of summer? (then again all previous Indys are summer movies, plus often films set at xmas are released in summer - Die Hard 1/2, Lethal Weapon, Gremlins, Batman Returns, Iron Man 3 etc)

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Theres a few similarities to Dial: the opening with deaged Indy, old Indy sleeping in front of TV (but star trek playing), duplicitous British female lead, the artefact being hidden in parts to avert falling into wrong hands/disaster

I am still kind of surprised the MacGuffin wasn't something to do with Atlantis. Maybe not as fantastical as the Disney movie but something kind of similar to the video game.