This spring, everyone's favorite whip-cracking gravedigger returns to the big screen. And, all things considered,
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has been a low key project. But the last week has seen a number of new photos loaded onto the web--some fairly tame, others...not.
Later in the year, Official Pix Blog will be releasing a collectible 11x14 print of Doctor Jones, of which there will be only 50 numbered pieces available, all personally signed by star
Harrison Ford. The print comes, bagged and boarded, at the bargain price of only $459.99.
Available at a much lower price (free) is a shot from Empire Magazine, of Ford's Indy with
Cate Blanchett's dastardly (-coiffed) Agent Spalko.
From this point, we wander into more
spoilery territory. MTV has unearthed a production photo from
Indiana Jones IV, depicting Indy apparently in the secret government warehouse that last was seen at the end of
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
This isn't as big a spoiler as most seem to think.
Annie Leibovitz's Vanity Fair pic of
Karen Allen & Shia LeBeouf set them in the warehouse. However, the new image set MTV's SHAWN ADLER to wondering.
"Will the Ark be the only instrument capable of destroying whatever new threat arises? Will something IN the Ark be of use to Indy in his quest? More likely, will Indy seek it out merely to protect it from falling into the hands of the villainess Cate Blanchett?"
Fans had more basic questions when LeBeouf quietly slipped the film's title to millions of TV viewers: What is it about? Which prized archaeological relic is the Crystal Skull?
Two graphics floating around the 'Net feature the titular skull. They are images that Paramount and Lucasfilm don't want you to see.
"How could a photo of a crystal skull possibly be a spoiler [for] a film called
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?" inquired an incredulous SILAS LESNICK at The IESB.
Still, consider yourself warned: the skull itself is a MAJOR plot spoiler.
Among the few known facts concerning the crystal skull's role in the movie is the quest of the intrepid Doctor Jones to find the mystical item in the jungles of South America before the Soviets reach it.
Directed by
Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp & Jeff Nathanson (rumored to be based on the original script by
Frank Darabont),
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull co-stars
Ray Winstone, John Hurt and
Jim Broadbent. It swings into a theater near you on May 22nd.
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