"Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
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When film directors and actors revisit cherished characters and “franchises” many years, or even decades, after their initial successes, they do so at their own peril. The landscape is fairly riddled with long-delayed sequels and prequels that failed to measure up in the popular mind, from The Two Jakes (Chinatown II) to Godfather III to, yes, even the mega-successful recent Star Wars trilogy.
But the public has been clamoring for a fourth Indiana Jones adventure from Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford basically ever since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was released in 1989. And now Indy is back — cue iconic John Williams main theme! By the time you read this story, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will have been in theaters for a week or more and both the critics and the public will have weighed in on whether the old Indy magic is still there. Sitting here writing about the film weeks before it opens, however, I can say this much: Everyone involved in the film seem to love working on it, and the post sound team, some of whom I interviewed right after the final mix was completed in late April, definitely believe that the film is up to very the high standards of the original 1980s Indy trilogy. – Excerpt from “Crack that Whip!” By Blair Jackson, MIX Magazine, June 1, 2008
Movie Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Mix Studio:
Skywalker Sound
Directed by:
Steven Speilberg
Original Music by:
John Williams
Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor:
Ben Burtt
Original Film Editing by:
Michael Kahn
Sound Department:
Movie Synopsis: (IMDB)
During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley’s code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its origin, she’ll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones’s past to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural.
