Indy IV Teaser Spurs Wave of Painted Poster Nostalgia
December 10th, 2007 | 1:47 pm est |
Get those fedoras out and those whips-a-crackin’ – the kind people at the Indiana Jones official site have finally released a true-to-form, Drew Struzan teaser poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Struzan is, of course, the artist whose work has graced everything from The Thing to Big Trouble in Little China, but it’s his collaborations with the great bearded one, George Lucas, that has truly cemented his place in mega movie history.
This new slice of hotness recalls the Temple of Doom teaser image, where Indy rocks a three foot machete the size of Short Round – except this time, we get no cleaver, just the standard whip and a closed fist, which will no doubt be socking the faces of those new Russian villains come May 22nd.
After the jump, enjoy a bigger version of the new ad art, along with a tasty gallery of past Struzan glory gone by.
For more info on Drew, visit his official site here!
Lament the near passing of painted poster art in our comments section below.
Update: While Struzan’s art for both Goonies and First Blood were a bit hard to find in our box cover database, chalk it up to our sister site All Music to provide soundtrack images for these fantastic slices of cinema ad art gold.
The Goonies had fantastic painted movie posters.
www.allposters.com/-sp/-Posters_i392449_.htm
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Don’t forget the First Blood poster!
The poster for the new version of Blade Runner makes it look like a cheap Star Wars knock-off, though.
You forgot some of the James Bond posters, e.g.
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http://www.impawards.com/1977/posters/spy_who_loved_me.jpg
Actually from the looks of it, Bob McGinnis was the artist behind the Thunderball poster, while Bob Peak provided the painting for The Spy Who Loved Me.
It’s important to note that Struzan provided a host of other poster designs that, sad to say, were not carried over for home entertainment releases — and thus were excluded from our list. Those looking for more of Struzan’s stuff, check out this website, whose comprehensive list of the artist’s work dates back to 1974.