Are the Crystal Skulls alien artifacts?
Like the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Sankara Stones in Temple of Doom, the skulls (there’s likely more than one, despite the singular in the title) are the supernatural MacGuffins the powerful thingies that everybody’s chasing. (Some think the Ark will turn up again too.) From what little the filmmakers have spilled, the skulls sound otherworldly in origin, while fan speculation has it that those who covet them believe they grant psychic powers. Does Indy have a son? From the moment Shia LaBeouf was cast last spring as a motorcycle-riding greaser nicknamed Mutt, rumors have circulated that he’ll turn out to be Indy’s love child with Marion (conceived, perhaps, during their ship tryst?). Others claim he’s Marion’s kid, but not Indy’s, since his last name seems to be Williams. Time for a DNA test but they didn’t have those in 1957, when the movie takes place. Will Indy get Stockholm syndrome? It’s believed that Cate Blanchett’s Soviet operative character interr
