Indiana Jones 5 is “in the home stretch” of production following director James Mangold’s 40-day-old promise to wrap filming in one month. This is likely to be the final piece in the Indiana Jones saga, with Harrison Ford reprising his iconic role at the age of 79.
Steven Spielberg, widely known for his directorial work on the franchise, left the chair in 2020 and was replaced with Mangold soon after. With Spielberg and George Lucas, the creator, staying on the project as executive producers, Mangold plans to keep Spielberg’s “basic concept” of the film.
Not much is known regarding the plot of the film, but Mangold reportedly rewrote a majority of the screenplay upon assuming his role as director. Many note similarities between Mangold’s biggest film, Logan, as Hugh Jackman’s final piece in the Wolverine story, and the newest Indiana Jones film.
“At least for me, in the dances I’ve had with any franchises, that serving the same thing again, the same way, usually just produces a longing for the first time you ate it,” Mangold notes to ComicBook.com. “Meaning, it makes an audience wish that they had the first one over again. So you have to push to someplace new, while also remembering the core reasons why everyone was gathered.”
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, and Antonio Banderas star alongside Ford in this new installation with Indiana Jones 5 is set to arrive in theaters on June 30, 2023.
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