jasperjones said:
the mcguffin is the skull. The mcguffin is literally the object that everybody is after.
Not necessarily. It can simply be a way/tool to keep the plot moving forward. I do think that Indy, et. al., will certainly be gunning for the skull, but I have a hunch that the Ark kicks it off (in terms of story design).
commontone said:
OK, I'm just gonna keep pointing this out until people stop assuming and address it. The picture of the warehouse in VF looks nothing like the Raiders warehouse--the ceilings are way too low, among other differences. At this point it is simply a big low-ceilinged space with crates in it, totally generic. We can speculate it will be CGI'd into the Raiders warehouse somehow, but we don't know that.
I just wish people would stop saying, "Well, given that the Raiders warehouse is back..." That's a big empty assumption. It's like seeing a picture of the jungle and assuming we'll see the same temple from the beginning of Raiders.
Keep in mind that the 'original' warehouse was a matte paining, so it really didn't exist. You mention CG...couldn't they utilize that to give the illusion of a higher ceiling? Seems pretty plausible to me, anyway.
I agree that this is an assumption, for sure...but if there were pictures of cast members alongside the village in India from TOD, couldn't we assume that the sankara stones were back? What about a picture of Shia in front of the grail temple in real life Jordan (Petra). Why would it be out of bounds to assume the grail is back?
I think the warehouse is such a seminal set/location/image in Indy lore, and I would be utterly shocked if The Beards used that location or setting for anything but the inclusion of the ark.