The new IndianaJones will be presented as a world premiere at 76e Cannes Film Festival, which will also pay an “exceptional tribute” to its actor, Harrison Ford, 80 years old.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinydirected by James Mangold, is to be screened on May 18 in Cannes, organizers said in a statement.
This fifth part of the adventures of the adventurous archaeologist imagined by Georges Lucas and brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg, is due out on June 28 in France and June 30 in the United States.
Like Tom Cruise for Top Gun: Maverick, last year, the climb of the steps is announced as one of the events of the festival. On the music of John Williams are expected, alongside Harrison Ford, the other actors of the film, including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas or Mads Mikkelsen.
On this occasion, the festival will pay special tribute to Harrison Ford, a figure of Hollywood cinema from Star Wars (he plays Han Solo three times) at blade runnerpassing of course by the adventurer with the hat and the lasso, that he embodies since 1981 and the first episode, The Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinyco-produced by Georges Lucas and Steven Spielberg for Disney and LucasFilms, is directed this time by James Mangold, author of the biopic on Johnny Cash walk the line with Joaquin Phoenix and Le Mans 66 (2019).
This is the second film whose selection has been officially confirmed by the Festival, after Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese, with his favorite actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro.
The jury of 76e Cannes Film Festival (May 16 to 27) will be chaired by the Swedish director who won two Palmes d’Or Ruben Östlund (The Square, Without Filter). The rest of the selection is to be announced in April.