INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY. The fifth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18. What is its release date in France?
[Mis à jour le 3 avril 2023 à 15h28] Indiana Jones will walk the red carpet at the next Cannes Film Festival. It is now official, the fifth opus of the saga will be presented out of competition to festival-goers and stars present on the Croisette on May 18, 2023. For the occasion, a tribute to Harrison Ford will be returned to celebrate his entire film career. This screening will serve as a world premiere for the film, one month before its theatrical release. In France, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is slated for a theatrical release on June 28, 2023.
This fifth episode is particularly awaited by fans of the franchise. Harrison Ford returns to service, hat on head and whip in hand, probably for the last time as Indiana Jones. The feature film, whose precise plot is not yet known, is directed by James Mangold who takes over from Steven Spielberg, father of the saga who is here executive producer. In the casting, moviegoers will recognize Phoebe Waller-Bridge (flea bag) in the role of the goddaughter of Indy, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Mads Mikkelsen or even Shaunette Renee Wilson and Thomas Kretschmann.
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Synopsis – Indiana Jones is back for new adventures, this time alongside Helena, her goddaughter. The most popular archaeologist of the seventh art finds his hat and his whip to, once again, face his greatest enemies, the Nazis.
In the Indiana Jones 5 trailer, unveiled on December 2, 2022, we can discover our hero evolving in the late 60s but also in the 40s in a sequence where Harrison Ford was rejuvenated via absolutely stunning techniques. We also discover the character of Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) who plays the goddaughter of the adventurer.
At the start of 2020, Disney announced a major change concerning Indiana Jones: Steven Spielberg will not be directing the fifth film in the saga which features the archaeologist. At the time, the American magazine Variety explained that, according to someone close to Spielberg, the decision was entirely up to the filmmaker. Steven Spielberg would indeed like to pass the torch to a generation of younger directors so that they try to bring their own vision of the character and this 40-year-old license. Steven Spielberg will remain producer of this Indiana Jones 5 but will not be directly behind the camera, which is therefore a first since the beginning of the saga of the archaeologist with the whip in 1981.
It was American director James Mangold who signed with Disney and Lucasfilm to shoot Indiana Jones 5. Mangold, to whom we owe Walk The Line and Le Mans 66 (awarded two Oscars in February 2020), already lent to the exercise of following a strong license. He has indeed directed Wolverine Le Combat de l’immortel and especially Logan, a twilight superhero film much appreciated by critics and the public when it was released in 2017.