Director James Mangold already revealed a few days ago: In Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate we will be one digitally rejuvenated version see by Harrison Ford. The trailer for the long-awaited sequel now provides the first moving images and gives us an insight into the big flashback sequence.
This is what the digitally rejuvenated Harrison Ford looks like in Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate
Before the main plot begins in 1969, Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate takes us back in time, specifically to 1944, where Indy fights his way out of a castle occupied by Nazis. Mangold wanted that in this sequence feeling of the first three parts capture, he explains to Empire.
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The digitally rejuvenated Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate
At first glance, he does it surprisingly well. Young Indy in the trailer could have jumped straight out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Not a pale ghost, but one tangible figure. You can really imagine this Indy erupting. Technology seems to have made a giant leap.
Indiana Jones 5 is already surpassing young Luke Skywalker from The Mandalorian
When we look at digital de-aging in cinemas, Martin Scorsese’s pricey Netflix film The Irishman comes to mind. For his more than 200-minute gangster epic, the master director teased out everything that possible at the time with the technology was. The result was far from perfect, however.
Marvel and Star Wars have also tried to turn back time in recent years. Especially that young Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian has made waves. Yet he often comes across as an impassive ghost, floating through a galaxy far, far away, threatening to fade at any moment.
You can watch the trailer for Indiana Jones 5 here:
Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate – Trailer (German) HD
The rejuvenated Indy, on the other hand, seems like he can survive a car chase without falling into zeros and ones. According to Empire came several de-aging technologies used, among other things, new software from the effects company ILM, which compares the new recordings with tons of archive material.
Indiana Jones as a cinematic journey through time
Ford himself describes the process as uncanny. “I don’t think I want to know how it works, but it works”, he reveals to Empire in an interview. There was one familiar thing though: For Indiana Jones and Destiny’s Call was over Indy’s leather jacket dusted from the first part, studied and recreated in detail.
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The digitally rejuvenated Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate
According to Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, the prologue of Indiana Jones and Destiny’s Call ideally feels like watching old footage that filmed 40 years ago became. Whether that is really the case remains to be seen. Ford’s young Indy is certainly looking very much alive and that’s a good sign.
Indiana Jones and the Call of Destiny opens on June 29, 2022 in the cinema.
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