Everything We Know About ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Harrison Ford is reprising his iconic role as Indiana Jones in a fifth movie.

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The fifth installment of the Harrison Ford-led franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, finally has an official title, release date, trailer and pictures that showcase the de-aging technology used to make 80-year-old Ford look decades younger in the new movie!

Directors are keeping close wraps on the plot, but the first trailer has given us a peek into Indy’s next adventure. The trailer is mostly a montage of flashbacks of Indy’s previous exploits. We then find the retired adventurer in a classroom, reminiscing about past adventures. He says, “those days have come and gone” before being answered with “perhaps not” signaling another adventure is about to begin. A voiceover from Indy says, “I don’t believe in magic but I’ve seen things that I can’t explain and I’ve come to believe it’s not so much what you believe but how hard you believe it.”

“That’s my actual face,” Ford said of the flashback footage in the upcoming sequel. “I put little dots on my face and I say the words and they make it.”

When “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” opens in theaters this summer, it will have been more than half a century since Harrison Ford first donned the bullwhip and fedora in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” But while the film will certainly address the toll that the passage of time has taken on the world’s greatest archeologist, fans will still get one last chance to see the young Indiana Jones in action.

At this point it’s no secret that the opening scene is a flashback that takes place in 1944 when the character was still 45 years old. The film’s creative team used de-aging technology to digitally shave 35 years off of Harrison Ford.

“My hope is that, although it will be talked about in terms of technology, you just watch it and go, ‘Oh my God, they just found footage. This was a thing they shot 40 years ago,’” producer and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said in a recent interview detailing the opening scene. “We’re dropping you into an adventure, something Indy is looking for, and instantly you have that feeling, ‘I’m in an Indiana Jones movie.’”

De-aging technology is famously hit or miss, so certain fans were understandably skeptical of the news. But Ford continues to sing the praises of the technology that he once called “spooky” as he reassures fans that the scene turned out well. Appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to promote his roles on “1923” and “Shrinking,” Ford elaborated on the process that went into de-aging him for the film’s opening scene.

“That is my actual face at that age,” Ford said. “They have this artificial intelligence program. It can go through every foot of film Lucasfilm owns. Because I did a bunch of movies for them, they have all this footage, including film that wasn’t printed. They could mine it from where the light is coming from, the expression. But that’s my actual face. I put little dots on my face and I say the words and they make it. It’s fantastic.”

**Who is starring in the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny cast?**

You can’t have an Indiana Jones movie without Indy himself. Ford has once again put on his famous fedora, reprising his role as the hero archaeologist in the forthcoming film. Here are the other stars joining on his next—and possibly last—adventure.

Harrison Ford

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Antonio Banderas

John Rhys-Davies

Shaunette Renee Wilson

Thomas Kretschmann

Toby Jones

Boyd Holbrook

Oliver Richters

Ethann Isidore

Mads Mikkelsen

Who directed the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny?

Walk the Line director James Mangold will directing.

“I’m thrilled to be starting a new adventure, collaborating with a dream team of all-time great filmmakers,” Mangold said in a previous release. “I can’t help but feel as lucky as Indiana Jones himself.”

Although Spielberg will not be directing the new movie, he will serve as a producer alongside Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

When will Indiana Jones 5 take place?

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will have an opening sequence that will take place in the years depicted between 1989’s The Last Crusade (set in 1938) and 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (set in 1957). Indiana Jones 5 will be set in 1969.

When was Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny filmed?

Production began in the UK in June 2021 and wrapped in February 2022. Fans confirmed filming was underway when they spotted the actor dressed as his iconic character.