The newest issue of “Vanity Fair” features Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf on the cover promoting “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Inside the prestigious magazine is an extensive article which features quotes from the stars of the movie as well as its director, Steven Spielberg, and producer George Lucas.
“There’s something about the character that I guess is a good fit for me, because the minute I put the costume on, I recognize the tone that we need, and I feel confident and clear about the character,” says Harrison Ford. He endured 97 degree temperatures while wearing Indy’s trademark leather jacket. The magazine reveals that “Transformers” star LaBeouf is rumored to play the illegitimate son of Indy and Marion Ravenwood, Karen Allen’s heroine from the classic 1981 movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. Cate Blanchett is also in the film playing a Russian agent who is trying to capture Dr. Jones. The movie is set in the late 1950s and so will swap Nazis out in favor of using the Cold War Soviets as the movie’s bad guys.
The article also reveals that the world may never have met Indy had the producer of the movie series featuring a certain British secret agent said yes to a young Spielberg’s request. “I told him that I wanted to, for the second time, approach [film producer] Cubby Broccoli, who had turned me down the first time, to see if he would change his mind and hire me to do a James Bond movie,” told Steven Spielberg to the magazine. “And George said, ‘I’ve got something better than that. It’s called Raiders of the Lost Ark.’”
The new Indiana Jones movie will be in theaters this May.