Fourth Installment of the Indiana Jones Adventures doesn’t hit theaters until May 22, 2008, but there’s still a lot of fun stuff to watch and see in the meantime, courtesy of our good friends over at IndianaJones.com.

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First up is this amazing photo of director Steven Spielberg with Harrison Ford, Karen Allen (returning as Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark), Shia LaBeouf (who’s playing Marion’s son, Abner) and Ray Winstone (who’s playing Indy’s sidekick):

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How amazing does Karen Allen look?

Answer: very.

Also be sure to check out the videos, especially “Spielberg, Indy cast at Comic-Con” that was posted on July 27. It’s a lot of fun watching the gang together, and I still can’t stop smiling over the fact that Marion’s back.

And!

/Film reports that Lucasfilm has registered the following potential titles with the Motion Picture Association of America:

Indiana Jones and the City of Gods

Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of Worlds

Indiana Jones and the Fourth Corner of the Earth

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Gold

Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Covenant

I’d like the third one if it was Fourth Corner of the World instead of Fourth Corner of the Earth, but otherwise the only one that sounds good to me is Indiana Jones and the City of Gods.

They could call it Indiana Jones and the Chicken Salad Sandwich and I’d be there with nachos and a Coke, but it’s still fun to speculate.

There’s also the possibility that these titles were registered as red herrings and that the final film will be called something else entirely.

We’ll probably find out before May 22!

Three years ago, Ain’t It Cool News posted this review of the script for Jurassic Park IV. The storyline is that a mercenary named Nick Harris leads five specially engineered dinosaurs — named Achilles, Hector, Perseus, Orestes and Spartacus — on top-secret commando missions against whatever. The dinosaurs are outfitted with body armor and guns and other weapons, and their genetic engineering includes dog DNA (for obedience) and human DNA (for intelligence).

I am not making this up.

In fact, it sounds a lot more like the storyline for one of those direct-to-video Carnosaur cheapies that actually rented like hotcakes at the height of Jurassic Park popularity.

Here’s where it gets weirder: William Monahan and John Sayles co-wrote it.

Monahan wrote Kingdom of Heaven and WON AN ACADEMY AWARD for his script for The Departed. John Sayles’s credits include tongue-in-cheek screenplays like Piranha and The Howling, the critically acclaimed Lone Star (which was a major boost for Chris Cooper’s acting career) and The Brother from Another Planet (which was not a major boost for Joe Morton’s and might have been indirectly responsible for Joe getting taped to the floor in Executive Decision).

That’s an interesting pairing/pedigree.

Even more interesting is the fact that this crazy thing might actually be happening as we speak. The horror movie experts over at Bloody-Disgusting are reporting that Universal Pictures has begun casting the movie for filming in Hawaii later this year.

Furthermore, Laura Dern told Collider back in April that she’s going to come back as Dr. Ellie Sattler in the film, but that Sam Neill would not be back as Dr. Alan Grant (even though he was somehow blackmailed into being in Jurassic Park III).

It should also be noted that she told them on April 5, not April 1. So she probably wasn’t making it up.

CHUD backs up the whole thing right here.

It’s been six years since Jurassic Park III, which had some great new dinosaur designs but one of the worst/silliest endings ever to grace a motion picture. Do we even want another Jurassic Park, and if we do, do we want it to be about dinosaur mercenary commandos?

Say what you will about the concept, but at least it’s trying to break from the formula.

I think.

What do you think?

… that this isn’t the best movie concept EVER.