the last installment of the adventures of Indiana Jones screened in preview

Indiana Jones in the spotlight at the Cannes Film Festival. The fifth part of the adventures of the archaeologist, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinye will be screened on May 18 in preview, on the Croisette.

Like the arrival of Tom Cruise for Top Gun: Maverick last year, this evening is announced as one of the events of the festival. “It is on the emblematic music of John Williams that [le réalisateur] James Mangold and Harrison Ford will climb the steps of the Palais des Festivals on May 18 alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore and Mads Mikkelsen. An event that will mark the long-awaited return of the famous adventurer to the Official Selection“, detail the organizers in a press release.

On this occasion, the festival will pay special tribute to Harrison Ford, a figure of Hollywood cinema from Star Wars To Blade Runner. He embodies the adventurer with the hat and the lasso since 1981 and the first episode, The Raiders of the Lost Arkwhose hero was imagined by Georges Lucas and brought to the screen four times by Steven Spielberg.

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 Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro.

The jury for the 76th 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.