The Indiana Jones Shuffle

Sean Connery is to sit out Indiana Jones and the Insufficient Paycheck after all - but John Hurt has signed up. I think we've suspected that for some time, really - one film ick story from March talked about Hurt and Indiana Jones, but the gossip didn't seem to spread very far.

Maybe it will now. Maybe the specualtion will begin: is Hurt stepping in for Connery, somehow? An uncle figure? Or a villain? Or what, exactly?