We hope you aren't sick of seeing shots from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Because we certainly aren't tired of posting them.
Shots from the film, such as the following, simply get us more excited for the next Indiana Jones adventure. If that's even possible.
Producer Frank Marshall has told Empire Magazine that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is ready to roll into theaters.
Sorry, but we do still need to wait until May to see itt.
"This picture is locked," Marshall said the current progress. "Steven's pretty much done editing. And we're going into the phase with John Williams where he starts scoring the movie. He's really writing now and then we'll start scoring in February."
When asked where this movie sits tonally with the rest of the series, Marshall replied:
"I would say it's closest to the third one (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). It's all adults. I mean, you have the sidekick in Shia (LaBeouf), but you don't have a Short Round and I think the banter between the characters is as fun as it was in the third movie."
Enjoy this Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull picture, folks. How come?
Because producers say it's the last glimpse we'll see of Shia LaBeouf, Harrison Ford and Ray Winstone before this monster movie hits theaters over Memorial Day Weekend, 2008.
"The new Indy movie is about a great quest, an amazing quest - and that's all I'm gonna say," said director Steven Spielberg.
And that's more than we even need to hear to go see it!
Enough about the male stars of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for now.
Here's a shot of Cate Blanchett in her role as an evil Russian:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hits theaters worldwide on May 22.
But the media blitz for the movie has already begun.
Below, Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf grace the cover of Vanity Fair. In the featured article, Ford says it was easy to get back into the role:
"There's something about the character that I guess is a good fit for me, because the minute I put the costume on, I recognize the tone that we need, and I feel confident and clear about the character."
Read the full interview with the actors now.
Yes, you read that headline correct.
Forget set photos from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for a moment.
Take a look at the newly released Lego set based on the film. We'd imagine this is the first of countless marketing tie-ins for the movie:
John Hurt is a veteran actor who portrays Abner Ravenwood, Indiana Jones' mentor in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
He recently talked about the movie with Premiere.com:
What keeps you interested in working in films? It seems you're busier now than you've ever been.
Thank god. I love working, so I'm very pleased about that. I always try to stay true to my reasons for doing a film, which are basically that it should stand the chance of succeeding on the level that is intended to succeed on.
How did you get involved in the new Indiana Jones movie?
I was invited to do it. I'd never met Steven Spielberg before, and he called me out of the blue. I almost felt like saying, "Oh yeah, Steven Spielberg⦠uh-huh." Anyway, we had a chat and he said, "Do you want to come make a film for me?" I said, "Well, that sounds very inviting." "In Peruâ¦" I said, "In Peru! Yes, that sounds extremely inviting."
We looked into it and there were various things about it â" like the time I had to be on set â" where I thought, "No, this isn't going to work out." But then I was advised by everybody that it'd be a good thing to do. And I did enjoy it. I mean, look, talk about standing the chance of succeeding on the level that it's intended to succeedâ¦
Not many actors would have thought twice, as it sounds like you did, about accepting a role in an Indiana Jones adventureâ¦
I want to be careful here, because I don't want to make it sound as if I'm anti- the film â" I'm not at all. But if I was asked what I would choose to do, it would be lightweight for me, at least for that sort of time commitment. But having accepted it, I enjoyed working with Steven hugely, and we had a great cast. I just wish we'd had something of fabulous interest between each other to act!
Read the full interview with Hurt now.
Take a closer look at the poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
If you study the bridge of the nose on the skull, you'll see what appears to be the face of an alien. This follow talk that creatures would actually play a role in the film.
Might those from outer-space join numerous Russians (one of whom is played by Cate Blanchett) as villains in the film?
More details are emerging about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
When last we left our hero, as USA Today reports, he was riding off into the sunset in 1989's The Last Crusade, set in 1938 near the start of World War II. The new film, meanwhile, is set at the height of the Cold War in 1957, so the character has aged 19 years in real time.
"He's teaching and having kind of a quiet life," Producer Frank Marshall says, adding that once the archaeologist is thrust back into danger, the signature Indiana Jones red line tracing across the map will take him to New Mexico, Connecticut, Mexico City and the jungles of Peru.
The Nazis are no longer Indy's chief enemy: he's racing for the Crystal Skull against operatives from the Soviet Union, including Oscar winner Cate Blanchett as the seductive Agent Spalko.
"Indy always has a love-hate relationship with every woman he ever comes in contact with," Marshall says.
Ray Winstone (Beowulf) co-stars as an unethical rival archaeologist. Shia LaBeouf sports greaser hair and rides a motorcycle as the hero's sidekick.
The Last Crusade concluded without a cliffhanger, but Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will revisit bits from other films, including Karen Allen's feisty Marion Ravenwood from 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Producer Frank Marshall recently spoke on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Just how did the making of this movie finally come about?
"It's kind of been out there in the air, but we never had the right script, and we kind of put it on the backburner and then back in 2000, we all went to the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award for Harrison," Marshall said. "George and Harrison and Steven and I and Kathy were all backstage all dressed up and we were looking at clips from the movies and we thought, âGod, those were really fun. Maybe we oughta really focus on trying to do another one.
And that's what happened. David Koepp came up with a great script finally, and we're done shooting and now in the editing process. It's pretty amazing."
Marshall continued:
"What we've done is we moved it from the '40s to the â50s so we're acknowledging that everybody's 10 or 15 years older and it plays into the story," he told us when asked about how things would be different from the earlier movies.
We're not trying to hide that Harrison's older, but we have Shia LaBeouf coming in as his sidekick, so we've got a young element. The best way to describe the movie is that it's an Indiana Jones movie. It's got all the style and elements of the old movies, and we're not really trying to do anything different."
Nor would we want them to!