So the first picture of Harrison Ford on the set of the fourth Indiana Jones movie is up on the Indiana Jones community site — snapped by director Steven Spielberg, no less — and it looks like production, which commenced yesterday, is starting with a bang, no hand-wringing scenes of namby-pamby exposition chatter or anything. (Those will be left to Jim Broadbent, I guess.) Ergo, Indy’s bloodstained pants, and the blood in and around his ear.

I can only hope that this scene of repose, however, was soon followed by Ford whip-cracking the shorts off of that production assistant in the background, cackling with glee and growling, “I’ve still got it.”

Filming will continue throughout the summer, with the movie set to release May 22, 2008. No word, yet, though, on whether the “Opal of the Mer-Man Prince” will be found…