Indy IV Watch: The Party's Not Over?

My friend Derek sent me a link to a Dark Horizons piece on something Vanity Fair contributing Jim Windolf wrote on VF's website called "My Indiana Jones Crackpot Theory." In it, Windolf posits the possibility that Indiana Jones will hand over the hat to Shia LeBeouf's character, leaving it wide open for future films starring the younger actor. After all, Spielberg lurves him to pieces, putting him in as many his produced or directed movies as humanly possible, and Lucas is always up for expanding his universes:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/02/indy_update200802

I think this would all depend on how KOTCS does and how audiences respond to LeBeouf's character.

New prop replica licensee

Like many of you, I wondered what the hell we were going to do now for replica lightsabers and other weapons since Lucasfilm and Master Replicas parted ways as of December 31. Well, over the past few days there has been a mysterious banner on Rebelscum.com advertising a company called eFX. The only things shown in the banner is Vader's helmet and the date 7/23/08, which is preview night at this year's Comic Con.

This has led to rampant speculation and through a little digging around by collectors, the picture looks a little clearer. Apparently, eFX is a new company founded by former Master Replica employees and the guy who owns the domain for the new teaser site used to be in charge of SW at MR.

Here's the teaser site:

http://www.efxcollectibles.com

And here's the story on TFN:

http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/eFX_Collectibles_111360.asp

This week's poll!

It was quite a blowout for Mara Jade in Week One of my Greatest EU Character Ever series. So, she goes on to the semi-finals with Kyp Durron (#2). Since it was a tie for #3, Ben Skywalker and Asajj Ventress both go to the semi-finals.

Now for Round Two:

[Poll #1116770]

The TOP THREE go on to the semi-finals.