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So if you are diligent enough with Google, right now you should have no problem at all finding an Adobe Acrobat file of Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods: Frank Darabont’s now-legendary script for the fourth Indiana Jones movie. G4’s Mike D’Alonzo wrote a review of it a few days ago and Moriarty at Ain’t It Cool News confirmed that it’s legit. It took me about two minutes of looking around to snag a copy for myself.

Thoughts?

Darabont’s draft is so much like what became Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that until I know why, it’s going to be an eternal question in my mind as to why he never received a writing credit for the final product. It’s the same basic story: Jones gets involved with a quest for a seemingly-mystical crystal skull and the adventure winds up in Peru. ...

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Yesterday I bought a copy of Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide. I’ve long been a fan of DK Publishing’s Star Wars books, which have been in the format of visual dictionaries and beautifully illustrated cutaways of locations and vehicles in the Star Wars saga.

Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide continues DK’s tradition in providing lush eye candy and detailed information, this time about a certain globe-trotting archaeologist. Written by James Luceno (who has been praised on this blog numerous times for his Star Wars work), the book covers most of the span of what we know about the life and times of Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr, beginning with the birth of his father in Scotland in 1872. Indy himself is born in 1899 and considerable space is devoted to his early exploits (which were documented in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series). The book pics up the ...

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“Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite movie!”

— Chris Knight while shaking hands with Steven Spielberg
August 2nd, 1989

So here it is: my review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. A review that for various reasons I never thought that I’d find myself writing.

And all this time y’all thought the Star Wars movies were tops on my list. Well, the Star Wars saga remains my favorite film series. But so far as individual movies go…

No other movie before or since has influenced my life as much as Raiders of the Lost Ark did. I was seven years old when my family went to see it on the night before New Year’s Eve in 1981. The next day I was on my bedroom floor surrounded by opened volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia and our family Bible, looking for ...

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Harry Knowles is madly in love with it. Roger Ebert has given it 3 and 1/2 stars. And when it was premiered at Cannes Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull received a three-minute standing ovation.

I’m finally beginning to let myself believe that after a decade and a half of crazy rumors and false-starts, that this week we are going to see an Indiana Jones movie… and one that stands as tall as any of them.

I’m currently debating whether to catch it at the midnight showing on Wednesday night, or wait ’til Friday at the earliest to see it with Dad and Lisa. If I see the midnight premiere, I get to post a review of it all the sooner for this blog. But if I wait a few days, I get to enjoy it for the first time with my father (with whom ...

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Drew Struzan delivers as classic a poster as I’ve ever seen for the last (?) chapter of the Indiana Jones film saga…

Is it just me, or does Karen Allen look even more beautiful in this poster than she did in Raiders of the Lost Ark all the way back in 1981? Her face is positively radiant!

What I would give to have this poster on my own wall. Hope they make them available for sale soon!...

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That’s the title of the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Shia LaBeouf announced it live during the MTV Video Music Awards and Lucasfilm quickly confirmed it with a press release.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Hmmmmm… I don’t like it. Sounds way too long and positively hokey. If the title is referring to this crystal skull, then I’m kind of disappointed ‘cuz there’s much better artifacts out there waiting to be MacGuffins for a good Indiana Jones story. The “crystal skulls” thing to me always seemed on the same level of wacky as Chariots of the Gods? or the Lost Continent of Mu. In this final(?) movie installment, why couldn’t Indy be sent looking for the Lance of Longinus or the Tooth of Buddha or the Mormon Plates or the Cloak of Muhammad?

But then, these are just the thoughts of a guy who’s ...

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TVShowsOnDVD.com has the scoop on what to expect with next month’s long-awaited (well I sure have been wanting this anyway 🙂 release on DVD of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – Volume 1.

In case you never saw this, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was a show on ABC that started in March of 1992 and ran for a year or so on-and-off. The brainchild of George Lucas, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles followed, well, young Indiana Jones on adventures from the time he was 9 on up into his early twenties. We got to see Indy meet T.H. Lawrence (of Arabia) and Howard Carter (discoverer of Tut’s tomb) in the burning sands of Egypt, all the way to fighting in the trenches of World War I and then as a college student in Chicago where he was roomies with Elliot Ness. It was an amazing show that happened to ...

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Gadzooks, check this out!

Tonight, via satellite hookup, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford revealed to those attending Comic-Con in San Diego that Karen Allen would be returning as Marion Ravenwood in the as-yet-not-properly-titled Indiana Jones 4. There’s more pics at the link. Doesn’t Allen look simply amazing?! I can’t tell any difference between her in 2007 and how she looked circa 1981 in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Now, the return of Marion Ravenwood, well … adds considerably to the melange of mystery that I’m seeing coming out of this project. I’ve heard all kinds of things about what the next Indiana Jones movie entails. One rumor I heard a few weeks ago, when I first came across it I thought “that’s the STUPIDEST thing I’ve ever heard about an Indiana Jones movie”, and now I can’t help but think “that’s the most BRILLIANTLY CLEVER thing that I’ve ...

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I’m barely keeping up with this project. Mostly ‘cuz I want to be as un-spoiled about it as possible, I guess. I managed to do that fairly well with Revenge of the Sith and I really went into Transformers as “virginally” as possible (at least so far as already being a childhood fan of the toys goes, anyway). I want to see Indiana Jones and the … (whatever #4 is called) next May in the theater, with the person who I’ve seen every other Indiana Jones movie with: my Dad. And enjoy it for the first time along with him.

That said, this news, if true… raises my eyebrows bigtime. And leaves me wondering about just what direction this is going to be taking.

Click here if you want to know more. It has to do with the character that John Hurt is now said to be playing....

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Yesterday on the official Indiana Jones website, this photo – taken by Steven Spielberg – was posted, the first in more than 14 years of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones:

Ford looks great! I never had any doubts that he would fit back into the role again. But showing this pic ain’t the reason I’m making this post. I’m here ‘cuz I’m completely fed-up with this “age-ism” nonsense.

Just about everywhere that I’ve seen this photo or otherwise heard about the next Indiana Jones movie being talked about, I see where he’s referred to as “Old Indy”. Look people, he is not “Old Indy”. He is an older Indiana Jones… just like you and I are gradually getting older… but other than being old-er, what differentiates this Indy from the one we first saw in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Yeah, older, maybe a little wiser, ...

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