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The INDIANA JONES 4 rumor mill takes another turn...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've had this rumor in the inbox for a
little while (thanks to "Judas' Noose") and it's starting to gain some
momentum.

I've gotten a second source come to me with the same rumor. So, I
thought I'd run something on it. It's a big, giant honking rumor, but
a fascinating one.

I've been on the record supporting the idea of an INDIANA JONES 4 if
it brings the films full circle. You have a great trilogy cap with
that riding off into the sunset shot from LAST CRUSADE, so the only
place to go in my mind is to make a movie that goes full circle back
to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. We know Marion Ravenwood is in it. We know
she had a kid with Indy. We hear that John Hurt could be playing Abner
Ravenwood, long lost father of Marion and mentor to Indy, thought dead
in his pursuit of the Ark.

Seems like that's the direction they're going.

The rumors I have been getting say that the big object being searched
for is not Atlantis. It is not the Spear of Destiny. It is not a shard
of Noah's Ark. This time Indiana has to go back to square one. There
is nothing he can possess that can not be taken away.

What I hear is that he is searching, once more, for the Ark of the
Covenant.

The rumor is that the warehouse we see at the end of Raiders is in
Groom Lake (aka Area 51) and the Russians are trying to find it in
order to one-up the American military might.

That would explain Abner being involved in the story. That would
further my theory that INDY 4 will act as a bookend to the series,
RAIDERS on one side and INDY 4 on the other. If Shia LaBeouf ends up
continuing it down the line as rumored, then so be it, but I think
we're pretty much guaranteed this will be the last one with Lucas,
Spielberg and Ford.

I love the idea, but from what I know of the film, from trusted
sources within the company, there's just not really any room for the
Ark of the Covenant in the story they're telling. It's not the main
thrust of the movie if it is in the flick and I just can't see it as
being something they'd sideline.

So, I know this really doesn't give you guys a definitive answer and
probably just raises more questions, but this is what I know of the
rumor right now and I'm sure it'll be spreading, so I wanted to
address it.

Hell, it could be that Lucas and Spielberg have us so turned around we
don't know which end is up and they're off making a completely
different movie than everybody's expecting, feeding us a bunch of
bogus rumors and all the set pics and stories have been fabricated. I
wouldn't put it past them.

If the Ark does play a part, I think it's a fascinating choice. If it
doesn't, I'm happy seeing a new adventure, too. What are your thoughts?

The World's Shortest Auto Race! The Indy 4!!!

--
Presto,
- Some people are like slinkies.
Not really good for anything, but they
bring a smile to your face when you
push one down a flight of stairs.

On Jul 9, 1:28 pm, "Presto" wrote:

Quote:

The World's Shortest Auto Race! The Indy 4!!!

--
Presto,
- Some people are like slinkies.
Not really good for anything, but they
bring a smile to your face when you
push one down a flight of stairs.

Have they said what year it is taking place? I've heard the 50s.
Early 50s or late 50s?

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Quote:

On Jul 9, 1:28 pm, "Presto" wrote:
The World's Shortest Auto Race! The Indy 4!!!

--
Presto,
- Some people are like slinkies.
Not really good for anything, but they
bring a smile to your face when you
push one down a flight of stairs.

Have they said what year it is taking place? I've heard the 50s.
Early 50s or late 50s?

Early 50's. And the title "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull" denotes a South American angle (too much detail in the "how's" and
why's. Just that there are supposed to be 13 Mayan crafted Quarts-crystal
skulls scattered in lost tombs around the world, that impart psychic energy
to the posessors, etc.). There is a story of one of them, and a man named
Frank Dorland, who claimed that the skull found by Mitchell was made in
Atlantis, recovered by the Knight's Templar, and mounted by the Templars on
the horn of a unicorn that their leader would ride into battle. The story
becomes unbelievable from there.