Phoebe Waller-Bridge will accompany Harrison Ford in the latest Indiana Jones movie | Cinema | Entertainment

The film will hit theaters in mid-2022, production company Lucasfilm announced.

The actress and creator of the series FleabagPhoebe Waller-Bridge will star alongside Harrison Ford in the new “Indiana Jones” film that will hit theaters in mid-2022, Lucasfilm production company announced Friday.

The fifth installment in the series, which will be directed by James Mangold (Ford v Ferrari), has been heralded as the last time the 78-year-old Ford will play the famous archaeologist.

The “new adventure” will feature a “dream team of great filmmakers of all time,” including producers Steven Spielberg – who was originally going to direct the film – and Kathleen Kennedy, Mangold said in a statement to AFP.

“When you add Phoebe, a stunning actress, a brilliant creative voice, and the chemistry she is sure to bring to our set, I can’t help but feel as lucky as Indiana Jones himself,” added Mangold.

The cast culminates the remarkable rise of 35-year-old British actress and writer Waller-Bridge, who won multiple Emmys for Fleabag, the successful television adaptation of his one-man show about a disillusioned young single woman in London.

Waller-Bridge has also co-authored the spy thriller Killing Eve and the next James Bond movie No Time To Die, delayed by the pandemic.

She has previously worked with Lucasfilm, playing the steely droid L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).

The fifth Indiana Jones film has been in production for years, and Lucasfilm’s parent company Disney confirmed Ford’s return in December.

Ford first donned the adventurer’s characteristic hat and whip in Raiders of the lost ark, from 1981, just a few years after he rose to worldwide fame as Han Solo in the original Star Wars.

Three years later, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” arrived, and in 1989 it was released Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, with Sean Connery in the role of Indy’s father.

Almost 20 years passed before Ford starred in the fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was successful at the box office but received poor reviews.

Legendary songwriter John Williams, who created the famous Indy theme, will compose the music for the fifth film, scheduled for July 2022. (E)

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