It seems that young Shia LaBeouf - star of Transformers and next summer's new Indiana Jones film - revealed the title of the movie during the MTV Video Music Awards last night. The title was later confirmed by the official site. The next Indiana Jones adventure will be called...

Yep. It's a tad long. I can hear some of you pups claiming that it's no longer than "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" but us older folks know that the name was only retconned to that in later years so that all the Indy movies would sit together on the shelf in video stores that sorted alphabetically. Originally it was just "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

I like the title. It sounds like a video game. That's probably because any Indiana Jones title that isn't one of the three from the movies will sound like a videogame until the film comes out and becomes part of the canon. What's most important is that it sounds like "Indiana Jones". "Kingdom", "Skull", "Crystal" - all great Indy buzz words. It doesn't fit with what I've heard about the story; not at all. That's fine because aliens and atomic bombs don't sound very "Indiana Jones". I put my faith completely - perhaps foolishly - in Spielberg and Lucas to deliver a quality movie.

We won't get any more Sallah or Henry Jones, Sr. but the inclusion of Cate Blanchett, LaBeouf, John Hurt, and the return of Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood go a long way towards a good film. Is Harrison Ford too old for this? No. Luckily he's the exact same age as Indiana Jones and always will be.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be released on May 22, 2008.