Mars is a planet.
History[]
The "canals" of Mars were first discovered in 1877.[1] By the 20th century, it was believed there were invaders from Mars.[2]
A Halloween radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds caused hysteria in 1938 when thousands of Americans mistook the story's Martian invasion of Earth to be real and fled from cities such as New York.[1]
In 1939, while talking to Professor Indiana Jones and the President of the United States of America, Doctor Browning joked that the USA could send an expedition to Mars if not to the Arctic or Antarctica as far as he was concerned when discussing the plans of the Nazis in regards to Doctor Van Hesling.[3] Later that year, while checking the strange-looking skeletons from the canals of Atlantis, Indiana Jones asked Sophia Hapgood, who was actually being posessed by the Atlantean god of deceit Nur-Ab-Sal, from where she thought those skeletons had originated from, mentioning Mars as a possible origin place due to the skeletons not looking human.[4]
In 1943, while on a World War II mission on Zile Muri-yo, Haiti to retrieve the Heart of Darkness before the Nazis or the Japanese Imperial Army, Indiana Jones reflected that with the way his adventures had gone with crazed experiences, he wouldn't be surprised to look up one day and see a spaceship full of little green men from Mars dogging his heels.[5]
In 1957, Indiana Jones dismissed Irina Spalko's claim that the New Mexico specimen were not of human creation as "saucermen from Mars".[6]
Behind the scenes[]
Mars in the Star Wars/Indiana Jones crossover Into the Great Unknown.
During the development of the fourth Indiana Jones film, Jeb Stuart worked on a potential script for the project entitled Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars.[7] Though there are no references to the planet within the story itself, its name seems to imply that the titular aliens came from Mars.[8] While much of Stuart's draft was abandoned due to the success of Roland Emmerich's 1996 film Independence Day,[7] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull used its title for a scene between Indiana Jones and Irina Spalko.[6]
In the non-canonical Star Wars/Indiana Jones crossover comic book Into the Great Unknown, the Millennium Falcon passes by Mars.[9]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Mount Sinai (Bas-relief)
- Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead (Mentioned only)
- Into the Great Unknown (Non-canonical appearance)
- Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars (Cancelled) (In title)
- Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods (Mentioned only) (Cancelled)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- The Adventures of Indiana Jones
- The World of Indiana Jones
- The Complete Making of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Annual 2009
- Indiana Jones Annual 2010
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The World of Indiana Jones
- ↑ Polyhedron 19 - The Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors
- ↑ Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Complete Making of Indiana Jones
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars
- ↑ Into the Great Unknown
