Indy Fans Pay Heed

Indiana Jones may be solid gold at the box-office but more often than not he's treated like the red-headed stepchild of the Lucasfilm stable. For an example of this, just click on over to the Star Wars website and compare it to Indy's home on the web and you'll get an idea of what I mean. Content-wise the site is pretty sparse, all things considered. When you visit the SW site there are constantly updated databanks, articles, streaming media, a fan club, images, trivia and DVD bonus content.

At indianajones.com you get some images, and the very occasional article - usually something from the archives.

So, colour me surprised when I swung by the site today and saw that it has finally gotten a decent update. It's a good one too giving fans of the movies a sneak peek at what might have been through a storyboard slideshow and some deleted script pages.

If you've seen the Bonus Disc in the Indiana Jones Trilogy DVD set then you know that a lot of set pieces that were intended for Raiders were excised and moved over to Temple of Doom. The rafting scene, for example, or the mine car chase were both supposed to be in Raiders and, according to these boards, the opening Shanghai scene from Temple was one of those scenes as well.

It's a fun little article/feature and it's really nice to see that the Indy site is getting a bit of love, for a change.

Now, if they'd only add more web features that could be unlocked by the DVDs I'd be a happy man (those Star Wars Depth Text Commentaries are fabulous).

mike