


Luke strikes up a friendship with Caleb's father, Litten Mandrake. Luke has a falling out with Will over Luke becoming a Skull. A senior Skull explains that the Skulls require their members to prove themselves in war. Luke and Caleb are lectured in the secret ritual room by a senior Skull who is standing in front of a wall with the word "WAR" engraved into it in huge capital letters. He does this with boxing prodigy Caleb Mandrake, who The Skulls declare his co-conspirator and "soulmate". Luke passes the first part of the initiation process by stealing an artifact from a rival secret society. Luke's friendships become strained when he is invited to join a secret society known as "The Skulls". Will is the coxswain of the Bulldog 8's rowing team and Luke is the captain. His best friends at college are his love interest Chloe, and Will. An orphaned "townie" who grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks", he did well enough in school to attend college on a scholarship where he is a champion rower. Luke McNamara is a student aspiring to become a lawyer. The film was critically panned, but successful enough to spawn two direct-to-video sequels, The Skulls II and The Skulls III, released in 20, respectively.

Its plot is based upon some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Yale University's Skull and Bones student society. The Skulls is a 2000 American thriller film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker and Leslie Bibb.
