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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, based on a story by George Lucas and Jeff Nathanson. It is the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones film series and a sequel to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). [3]
- $185 million
- Frank Marshall
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf. Indiana Jones becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
- Steven Spielberg
- 2 min
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Prologue: Nevada, 1957
As the Paramount Pictures logo fades into a mountain made out of sand, a prairie dog peeks into the outside world from its little hill and is nearly run over by a group of reckless driving youngsters. Said youngsters challenge Franklin and Roosevelt, two soldiers in the lead car of a US army convoy, to a race. Both cars race, but after a short while the army car and the trucks and other cars behind it veer right and drive up to a gate. Russians disguised as United States army officials gun do...
Bedford, Connecticut
As soon as Jones returns to the university, he is sent away on a temporary break, with full pay, because the FBI ransacked his office. His friend Dean Charles Stanforth had to quit his job to get Jones the offer he got. Indiana sadly states that the past few years have been very tough because both his dad, Henry Jones Sr. and the museum director Marcus Brody have passed away. Jones decides that there is nothing left for him at the university, so he buys a train ticket to New York. Shortly aft...
Nazca, Peru
Following a series of clues left in a riddle written in a dead language by Oxley, Mutt and Indiana figure that the skull must be in Nazca. They visit the sanatorium where Oxley was held and they discover that he had drawn a location to Orellana's cradle, which didn't mean his birthplace, but his final resting place. Orellana, a conquistador, was believed to have been searching for the skull before vanishing mysteriously. They journey through the tomb, and in the process defeat two cemetery wa...
Locations
1. Atlantic Ocean (On map) 2. Bahamas (On map) 3. Belize (On map) 4. Berlin (Mentioned only) 5. Brazil 5.1. Amazon 5.1.1. Akator 5.1.1.1. Temple of Akator 5.1.2. Amazon River 5.1.3. Ilha Aramacá (On map) 5.1.4. Jungle camp 5.1.5. Sono River 6. Caribbean Sea (On map) 7. Cuba (On map) 7.1. Havana (On map) 8. Ecuador (On map) 9. Flensburg (Mentioned only) 10. Guatemala (On map) 11. Gulf of Mexico (On map) 12. Honduras (On map) 13. Leipzig (Mentioned only) 14. London (Mentioned only) 14.1. Britis...
Artifacts
1. Ark of the Covenant 2. Crystal Skull of Akator 3. New Mexico specimen 4. Mitchell-Hedges Skull (Mentioned only) 5. British Museum Crystal Skull (Mentioned only) 6. Francisco de Orellana's Death Mask
Events
1. The Jungle Chase 2. Ride Through Academy
Development
1. "It worked like this: George and Steven have a rough discussion about the story. George goes off and creates the basic story line. It goes back to Steven for comments and approval. And then when those two have satisfied each other, then it comes to me and I get to have my say about it. That entire process? That takes about... 18 years." 2. ―Harrison Ford Early versions of the fourth film were entitled Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars and Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods...
Continuity
The film is the most 'remotely separated' than the other three: in timeline (set in the 1950s rather than the 1930s), in production time (19 years after the Last Crusade) and in concept (introducing aliens and source for the 'ancient astronaut' theory instead of mythical/religious themes. The novel Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter and video game Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures are Licensing canon sources which explored aliens). Following Pat Roach's passing in 2004, the movie...
Theatrical release
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2008, ahead of its worldwide May 22 release date. It was the first Spielberg film since 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to premiere at Cannes. The film was released in approximately 4000 theaters in the United States, and dubbed into 25 languages for its worldwide release. More than 12,000 release prints were distributed, which is the largest in Paramount Pictures' history.Although Spielberg...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull screenplay at DavidKoepp.comIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on WikipediaSteven Spielberg. Screenwriter. 3 Credits. David Koepp. Jeff Nathanson. Philip Kaufman. Writer. 2 Credits. Steven Spielberg. George Lucas. Actor. 31 Credits. Harrison Ford. Indiana...
- Steven Spielberg
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Frank Marshall. Written by. George Lucas. Jeff Nathanson. Based on. Indiana Jones by: Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC. Starring. Harrison Ford. Cate Blanchett. Karen Allen. Ray Winstone. John Hurt. Jim Broadbent. Shia LaBeouf. Music by. John Williams. Cinematography. Janusz Kamiński. Editing by. Michael Kahn. Production company (s) Lucasfilm Ltd.
Cast and crew of «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull» (2008). Roles and the main characters. Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen
