Indiana Jones And The Really Big Gun

Kevin Kelly — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:30:51 PST

If you remember your history, you can probably recall Indy pointing a bazooka at Belloq and the Ark of the Covenent in the original Raiders of the Lost Ark. He threatens to blow it up and send them all back to God, but in the end he just can't do it. Does that mean he'll get a second chance in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Maybe he's using it as a parenting aid for those moments when Shia gets a bit unruly. At any rate, it looks like Marion drives a car, Indy points (and we hope, shoots) a rocket propelled grenade, and Shia probably says "No, no, no, no!" a lot. [Empire Magazine]

Indiana Jones and the Jumping of the Shark

Kevin Kelly — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:15:40 PST

Steven Spielberg has yanked the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind out of mothballs, and plans to stick them in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when Indiana accidentally finds Area 51.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have put little inside jokes and sly references to their other films in some of their movies, including a fair share in the Indiana Jones films. In Raiders of the Lost Ark you can see THX-1138 (Lucas' first sci fi film) on the wing of one of the planes, and the opening scene of Temple of Doom takes place in "Club Obi-Wan."

However, Indiana Jones finding aliens in storage at the fabled Area 51? We can hear the faint sounds of a motorcycle revving up, attempting to jump over a shark somewhere. At least this will keep us on our toes when Indiana pulls a lightsaber out of his man-bag and chops E.T. into tiny pieces and then races off in one of the original cars from American Graffiti .

New Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Cameo Rumor [Movieweb]

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Indiana Jones And The Really Big Gun

Indiana Jones and the Jumping of the Shark