Last night was the MTV Music Video Awards, and though it has very little if anything to do at all with movies, a small snippet managed to (strategically) slip out of Shia LaBeouf while he was on stage with millions of viewers conveniently hanging on his every word. The title for the impending Indiana Jones 4.
“If adventure has a name … it must be Indiana Jones,” a publicity campaign announced in 1984. Now we know that the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series has a name, and it will be “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
It sounds a bit of a mouthful to me. However I tend to be skeptical of most sequel titles I hear. I thought Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones sounded like lame titles (shuddap – Star Wars is still cool by me) and those became comfortable titles for the movies after some time.
But for once I think I am always going to be left awkward in this title. Its difficult to say quickly and it makes for a really poor acronym “Indy 4:KotCS”. Likely in time it will be shortened by fanboys to “Crystal Skull”
However, one thing I DO like about the title is that it leans toward the mysterious archological stuff that made Indy so fascinating. With all this talk that Indy will face off against aliens made me worry that the original charm and adventure would be stripped from this franchise. Perhaps this is a sign that even if aliens are involved that the original flavour is not tainted.
However it does NOT surprise me that they took advantage of Shia’s rising star to let him go public and announce this title.
Click here to see Shia’s announcement.
