WILL SKULL-N-BONES PLAY A PART IN INDIANA JONES NEXT MOVIE?

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Books fly. Students flee. Into a Yale courtyard bursts Indiana Jones.

So is the scene described by the men pictured below as they came to City Hall to ask for street closures to facilitate New Haven's summer blockbuster -- the fourth, as yet unnamed, Indiana Jones film.

Aldermen Monday approved street closures for the riveting chase through downtown streets -- and heard a preview of the plot of the movie to be shot in part in downtown New Haven in coming weeks.

In the New Haven-shot scenes, professor Ford gets pursued by bad guys in black sedans through the Yale campus, up to athletic fields, where he may just catch a football for a moment of lighthearted shtick.

Aldermen approved closing sections of downtown streets to make way for the chase, as well as for a pre-filming street festival celebrating Harrison Ford's visit.

"Can we get autographs?" asked Newhallville Alderwoman Katrina Jones after the men described Ford's escapades through the Elm City.

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Filming will run June 28 to July 6, reported David Martin, location manager for Genre Project's East Coast sector (pictured at right, with assistant location manager Jason Farrar). Most of the scenes, by Martin's recounting, involve Ford's motorcycle (with stunt man, no doubt) bursting through bucolic Yale spots.

Why New Haven? Because of "its great-looking university with great-looking architecture," Martin said. The film will be set in 1957.

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