Leather jacket, whip and fedora hat: that was the characteristic look of archeology professor Henry Walton Jones. Harrison Ford played “Indy” in front of the camera for the first time at the age of 38. That was 40 years ago. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” opened in US cinemas on June 12, 1981. And now, four decades later, the hero is returning to the screen for the fifth time: At the end of July next year, “Indiana Jones 5” is due to start – at least if it is according to the plans of producer Steven Spielberg (74) and director James Mangold (57 ) goes. Harrison Ford would then be 80 years old.
The Disney Group has already postponed the fifth adventure announced for 2019 several times – most recently because of the corona pandemic. Photos from the set in England were recently published in the media. The shooting is already taking place in a castle on the coast of the English county of Northumberland.
Four Oscars for the first “Indiana Jones” film
Since 1981 Ford has played the role of the daring professor four times, most recently in 2008 in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Steven Spielberg has always directed, and last year he handed it over to his colleague James Mangold. George Lucas, also the creator of “Star Wars”, had created the “Indy” figure in the late 1970s. As a writer and producer, Lucas has played a key role in all four episodes so far. But with the sale of his legendary company Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, Lucas withdrew more and more from film work.
In the first “Indiana Jones” – “Raiders of the Lost Ark” – Harrison Ford battled Nazi villains in the 1930s, flew through Peru and Nepal and brought the fabled Biblical Ark of the Covenant to safety. The film won four Oscars – for production design, editing, sound and special effects.
With Sean Connery in the sidecar on bumpy mountain roads
“Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) led Dr. Jones competes with Nazi agents on a turbulent search across Europe for the Holy Grail – and for his father, played by Sean Connery. It was a real pleasure to chauffeur Connery in the sidecar of a Russian motorcycle over bumpy, winding mountain roads, recalled Ford remembering a joint shooting scene last November, shortly after Connery’s death at the age of 90.
The title of the planned fifth part has not yet been revealed, and the content is still secret. This spring, however, big names were already falling: the Danish star Mads Mikkelsen (“James Bond 007: Casino Royale”) and the British actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”) will play alongside Ford.
Indiana Jones second greatest movie hero according to the American Film Institute
Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm are using the 40th anniversary for a new edition of the four Indiana Jones films in Ultra HD resolution. The original negatives have been revised and the sound has been remixed. The American Film Institute (AFI) put the main character from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” at number two on its list of 50 greatest film heroes in 2003 – after attorney Atticus Finch from “Who disturbs the nightingale” (1962), but ahead of “James Bond” – 007 is chasing Dr. No “(1963), played by Sean Connery.
(With dpa material)
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