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What good would an Indiana Jones film be without a Marcus Brody-type character? Seeing as the original Brody, Denholm Elliott, passed away in 1992, we've been wondering for awhile now whether Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were going to resurrect Brody in the body of a different actor for the fourth installment. Well, AICN tells us (via a tipster) that Jim Broadbent has confirmed that he will be playing that character in Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods (aka Indiana Jones 4), but he will not be taking on the role of Marcus Brody. Instead, according to the tipster, he'll be "the same kind of character in the story." Will he be Brody's brother? Brody's assistant? Or, how about making him a character named Broadbent? I'd like that.

Brody, as most of you most definitely remember, was Indy's bumbling old partner-in-crime and good friend. The character was absent in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (second film released, but first chronologically), but appeared in both Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. Broadbent is a wonderful character actor who last appeared as an Inspector in Hot Fuzz. Seeing as he kind of looks like Denholm Elliott, I'm surprised that they wouldn't just make him play Marcus Brody. Having him take on a character that's just like Brody would be kind of strange, unless, like I said before, he turned up as some long-lost family member. Which would be weird. And stupid. There hasn't been any official word of this casting, so for the time being chalk it up as just another rumor. Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods (working title) will hit theaters on May 22, 2008.

• James Aljian (c.1932-2007) - Vice President of finance for MGM Studios in the 1970s and then for MGM/UA in the early 1980s. He died of cancer April 12, in Los Angeles. (Variety)
• Dick Arnall (1944-2007) - British animator who worked on Yellow Submarine and produced the BAFTA-nominated shorts A is for Autism and Home Road Movies. He died of pneumonia as a consequence of a brain tumor February 6. (Guardian)
• Nair Belo (1931-2007) - Brazilian actress who appears in Heart and Guts and Alberto Cavalcanti's Simon the One-Eyed. She died of heart disease April 17, in Rio De Janeiro. (Globo)
• Ariane Borg (1915-2007) - French actress who appears in The Phantom Wagon. She died April 16, in Couilly-Pont-Aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France. (IMDb)
• Kitty Carlisle Hart (1910-2007) - Actress best known for starring alongside the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera. She also starred opposite Bing Crosby in She Loves Me Not and Here Is My Heart and appeared as herself in Hollywood Canteen. After more than forty years away from the movies, she made appearances in Radio Days and Six Degrees of Separation. She was also the widow of Moss Hart. She passed away following a battle with pneumonia April 17, in New York City. (MSNBC)
• Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932-2007) - French actor (pictured) who worked with many of the great masters of cinema. He starred in Melville's Army of Shadows, Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Renoir's The Elusive Corporal, Clément's Is Paris Burning? and multiple films by Chabrol and by de Broca. He also appears among the ensemble casts of Superman II, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Murder on the Orient Express, Prêt-à-Porter, the upcoming Asterix at the Olympic Games and the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers and its follow-ups, The Four Musketeers and The Return of the Musketeers. His son is actor Vincent Cassel, with whom he appears in Matthieu Kassovitz's Café au Lait and The Crimson Rivers. He died April 19. (Playfuls)