Indiana Jones' Lucasfilm Sued Over Crystal Skull Lawsuit seeks compensation over use of likeness of alleged stolen crystal skull.

A lawsuit was filed this week against Lucasfilm, its new owner Disney, and Indiana Jones film distributor Paramount Pictures over the use of a crystal skull replica in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Hold on. It gets better.

You may recall that there are only four crystal skulls known to exist in the world. Well, according to Boing Boing, "Dr. Jaime Awe, director of the Institute of Archaeology of Belize has brought suit on a number of parties on behalf of Belize. He is seeking the return of the Mitchell-Hedges skull and damages for use of its likeness. The Mitchell-Hedges is the missing fourth skull and was mentioned in the Indiana Jones movie. Awe claims the movie skull bears a striking resemblance to the original," which he says was stolen from Belize by a treasure-hunting family 88 years ago.

The lawsuit says the use of the Mitchell-Hedges likeness in Crystal Skull was unlawful, and so the plaintiffs are now seeking part of the Steven Spielberg-directed sequel's profits (it made $786.6 million at the worldwide box office).

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