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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #5 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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#5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: David Koepp
Producers: Frank Marshall (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

The Gist: Set in 1957, Indiana Jones is having a quiet life teaching before being thrust back into his old adventuring. He races against agents of the Soviet Union for the crystal skull.

Fact: Screenwriters Jeb Stuart, Jeffrey Boam, M. Night Shyamalan, Frank Darabont and Jeff Nathanson wrote drafts, before a script by David Koepp satisfied all three men in 2006.

See It: I can promise folks this: this will be a better nostalgic trip than the Star Wars stuff that came out.

Release Date/Status?: May 22nd. This might just become the top grossing film of all time.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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