Crystal skull sightings! We have two pictures!
Warning: There be spoilers here -- visual spoilers, even.
In real life, crystal skulls are shaped like human skulls, and some people like to speculate that these skulls might be the product of alien civilizations. But that's too indirect for George Lucas -- who has already said that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be more like a "science-fiction movie" than any previous film in this series -- so, to judge from a few photos that came out over the last few days, it looks like Lucas has gone ahead and based his newest movie's supernatural artifact on an extra-terrestrial skull. Apparently, in Lucas's world, aliens didn't just make the crystal skulls, they are the crystal skulls.
First, Action Figure Insider posted this image on Friday, taken from a brochure put out by toymaker Takara Neduke:
And then, today, MovieWeb.com posted this:
Now, it has been a long, long time since I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but I am wondering if what we see in these images squares with that rumour we heard a few months ago.
FEB 9 UPDATE: Hollywood North Report has the complete toy brochure; click on the photo below for a larger version:
FEB 12 UPDATE: ComingSoon.net posted this "alternative cover for the comic" tonight -- and it, too, features the skull:
FEB 17 UPDATE: MTV Movies Blog has a photo of the Lego version of the crystal skull that appeared at this week's Toy Fair:
MAR 10 UPDATE: The newest poster gives us our best "officially sanctioned" look at the crystal skull to date:
MAY 1 UPDATE: Official Pix has a few new photos for sale:
MAY 3 UPDATE: The new trailer also gives us a quick glimpse of the skull, but part of it is always just out of frame:
In real life, crystal skulls are shaped like human skulls, and some people like to speculate that these skulls might be the product of alien civilizations. But that's too indirect for George Lucas -- who has already said that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be more like a "science-fiction movie" than any previous film in this series -- so, to judge from a few photos that came out over the last few days, it looks like Lucas has gone ahead and based his newest movie's supernatural artifact on an extra-terrestrial skull. Apparently, in Lucas's world, aliens didn't just make the crystal skulls, they are the crystal skulls.
First, Action Figure Insider posted this image on Friday, taken from a brochure put out by toymaker Takara Neduke:
And then, today, MovieWeb.com posted this:
Now, it has been a long, long time since I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but I am wondering if what we see in these images squares with that rumour we heard a few months ago.
FEB 9 UPDATE: Hollywood North Report has the complete toy brochure; click on the photo below for a larger version:
FEB 12 UPDATE: ComingSoon.net posted this "alternative cover for the comic" tonight -- and it, too, features the skull:
FEB 17 UPDATE: MTV Movies Blog has a photo of the Lego version of the crystal skull that appeared at this week's Toy Fair:
MAR 10 UPDATE: The newest poster gives us our best "officially sanctioned" look at the crystal skull to date:
MAY 1 UPDATE: Official Pix has a few new photos for sale:
MAY 3 UPDATE: The new trailer also gives us a quick glimpse of the skull, but part of it is always just out of frame:
posted by Peter T Chattaway at 8:00 PM
5 Comments:
I had a scary thought which could ruin the whole thing for me.
Could this crystal skull be inside the ark of the covenant? Thus the face melting power is explained by aliens, and why Indy has to go into the warehouse to find the ark.
I hope not, next we might find out the holy grails healing power was midichlorians...
Not likely. When the Nazis opened the ark, you can see that the leader reaches in and is really disappointed that all there is inside is dust.
Thank you for reminding me of that, all i remembered was the smoke etc coming out of it.
When you posted the Indy IV poster a bit back, Peter, I remember thinking that the skull looked decidedly non-human.
This is interesting. I really hope these images don't get out to most filmgoers. I want to see what folk's reactions will be when this movie comes out!
FWIW, the skull itself in that poster didn't look particularly alien to me ... but Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere did raise the possibility that there might be an alien face embedded within that skull.
Incidentally, back in December, Lego released some pictures of its upcoming Crystal Skull-themed toys, and there would seem to be a few spoilers in those pictures, too.
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