![]() ![]() Bush was elected president in 2000, he brought on 5 other Bonesman into his cabinet. Bush was admitted to Yale despite poor schoolwork in high school by a committee which included three Bonesman. The first example of this goal is the fact that one of the club’s founder’s son became a Bonesman at Yale and went on to become the only man to serve as both Supreme Court Chief Justice and president, William Taft. There are around 800 Bonesmen alive today and the purpose of the club is to keep it’s members in the elite areas of society. Members are called “Bonesmen” and must swear loyalty to the club and its members for life. This makes it Yale’s oldest secret society. In each Yale class, only 15 students are selected for lifetime membership in the secret society that has been around since 1832. Skull and bones is a reality and the film got very close to how that reality works at Yale. It’s interesting how many of the critics missed this and didn’t understand it and blowed it off as silly. To create this secret world of power elites… that was very exciting to me and I got the cast excited about that idea. This is how the elite knits together these bonds that take them through life and keep them in the elite heights of any society, and I was very excited about portraying that with Paul and Josh and all the cast. But I knew a lot about the secret societies, and I thought this is how the elite functions. I had gone to Harvard that had the dining clubs but not the skull and bones, the secret societies. It was a very intense set because I had in my mind that I was telling the story of George Senior and George W Bush. John Kerry, who ran for president in 2004, is also an alumnus. Bush was an alumnus of the real Skull and Bones secret society at Yale. At the time, it was also especially relevant as then-president George W. While Luke McNamara and Caleb Mandrake are completely fictional characters, writer John Pogue went to Yale and director Rob Cohen went to Harvard and the story is absolutely meant to portray real aspects of how elite secret societies function. Director Rob Cohen liked working with Paul Walker so much, he hired him to star in his next film, The Fast and the Furious (2001). However, Luke keeps investigating and eventually the secret society turns on him and seeks to eliminate him as a threat to their secrecy. Luke is suspicious, but Caleb tries to convince him that he needs The Skulls to fund his dream of going to law school more than he needs to uncover the truth about Will. Tensions arise when Luke’s friend Will is killed while investigating The Skulls for an expose in the school paper and his death is framed as a suicide. ![]() If it’s secret and elite, it can’t be good. Upon initiation he is given wealthy heir Caleb Mandrake (Walker) as his partner. To the displeasure of his friends Chloe (Bibb) and Will (Hill Harper), Luke is invited to join the most prestigious secret society at the school, The Skulls. The plot of The Skulls follows Luke McNamara (Jackson), a working class orphan and junior at a prestigious (unnamed) Ivy League school he attends on a rowing scholarship. ![]() The Skulls starring Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker and Leslie Bibb is a memorable early 2000s thriller both because of its teen stars and because it was based on a salacious open secret: there really is a secret society at Yale called “Skull and Bones” and if you look up their list of alumni you’ll find former presidents, judges, diplomats and owners of major media outlets. ![]()
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