Posted by Inbanana Jones from spider-wg054.proxy.aol.com on January 31, 2000 at 04:23:08:
In Reply to: Rene Belloq novels? posted by graml on January 30, 2000 at 20:49:00:
Fan fict. possibility?
Perhaps Indy met the older Rene while both were taking grad classes. Rene never finished his doctorate (thus the snidely voiced, "'Doctor' Jones..." at the beginning of RoLA??? Maybe he was discovered selling artifacts from the school collection, stripped of his fancy French academic garb, and tossed out...
Having few respectable places to turn, he immersed himself into the seemy looters/collectors underworld... Perhaps Rene's early exploits would bear a close resemblance to Lucas' original conception (i.e., of Indy as a rather disreputable playboy).
It was only later that poor, poor Rene made the fatal mistake of taking a contract from evil Mr. Schicklegruber...