Indiana Jones 5. It's official.

The Nth Doctor said:

The Hollywood Reporter interviewed James Mangold where he has this insight on how to approach Indiana Jones' place in the world and how to juxtapose his film with the previous four:

“The first three Indiana Jones movies took place in roughly the same period,” Mangold notes. “They all easily fit with the serialized, theatrical, almost screwball-action style of the movies that were being released in the period they’re set in. The challenge for [director Steven Spielberg] on [Crystal Skull], and for me on this one, is: How do you move forward into new decades where the world is no longer seen in such clear demarcations of black and white and good and evil? Where the whole concept of raiding tombs and fighting over relics is looked at in a different way? It’s not about changing the story but allowing the character to experience how the world has changed around him.”

Most of the film is set in 1969, when, Mangold notes, America’s heroes were figures such as astronauts rather than soldiers of fortune. “And our perception of politics is more gray,” he adds. “Who’s a villain? Who are we working with? Who are we fighting against? Proxy wars, all of that. It’s not as simple as the era around World War II. What happens to a hero built for a black-and-white world, when he finds himself in one that is gray? It’s a problem that produces humor, produces contradictions, produces adjustments that this character’s going have to make.”

Yet as fans already know, the film’s opening sequence is set back in Indy’s glory days. Ford was de-aged using AI technology and the Lucasfilm’s library of footage from his previous work. Mangold says the sequence isn’t just a fun throwback but provides more meaningful context to the character for the rest of the film.

“It reminds the audience of the contrast between a hero in his physical prime and a hero at 70,” Mangold says. “We’re not relying solely on the audience’s memory of the previous films. It reminds everyone what he’s done, what he’s survived, what he’s accomplished. By showing him in his most hearty and then finding him at 70 in New York City, it produces for the audience a kind of wonderful whiplash of how they’re going to have to readjust and retool their brains for this guy. His past is a live memory for the audience, hanging over a man who is now living with anonymity in a world that no longer cares or recognizes the things he felt so deeply about. You’re left with a multilayered perception of his character, both what he was and what he is, and how the world is different between the first 20 minutes of the movie.”​

As one of the few defenders of The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I love the contrast from the 30s pulp serials of the trilogy to the 50s B movies of the fourth film, showing the change in style and content of the story. With that in mind, I think Mangold's perspective is an excellent approach to deal with Ford's and Indy's age and how to contrast The Dial of Destiny from the rest of the films.

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Owain Taggart said:

Woulldn't really be much of a reboot since the story hasn't been done on big screen Indy in the first place. At most, it could be inspired by it, but I doubt it will have much in common with it.

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Unimatrix Q said:

Really wondering if the new Indy movie is a canon version of Fate of Atlantis.

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Continuous Cosmos said:

Oops and Yikes!!
https://www.cbr.com/indiana-jones-5-end-of-franchise-disney/

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Continuous Cosmos said:

Oops and Yikes!!
https://www.cbr.com/indiana-jones-5-end-of-franchise-disney/

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