Fourth Indiana Jones Movie to Begin Filming in 2007

It's been in development for over a decade and rumors have swirled about its immediacy off and on over the last few years, but George Lucas has made it official: 67 year old Harrison Ford will don his fedora and stumble around as Indiana Jones one more time.

Okay, I kid about the stumbling around part, but the new Indy movie will begin filming next year with a release date scheduled for May 2008. No word on plot or guest stars, though it has been widely rumored that Sean Connery will for some reason reprise his role as Indy's dad--don't get the point of that myself--which should be quite interesting considering that Ford is 67 and looks 65, so does that mean Connery will be doddering around in a wheelchair as an 80-something character.

Frankly, I'd prefer to bring back Karen Allen as the only decent female character the series ever produced, Marian Ravenswood. One can only guess that the story will take place at least twenty years after the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark which would place the setting in at least the mid-50s. Perhaps this time around Indiana Jones can go in search of yet another mythical object--Joseph McCarthy's brain, maybe? Or even possibly his heart? Hey, I know, how about his sense of decency or shame?