Disney/Lucasfilm’s "Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny" is eyeing a world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
The festival runs May 16-27, with Dial of Destiny eying a day two or day three debut.
The last Indiana Jones movie, 2008’s "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", made its world premiere at Cannes and received a nearly 4-minute standing ovation.
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" hits the United States on June 30 and France on June 28.
Going this early with the pic more than a month before its theatrical release shows that Disney has extreme confidence in the movie, and that it won’t upset as global reviews will break out of the festival.
The upcoming installment arrives almost 15 years after the last movie and over four decades after the initial installment, 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark”.
It will take place in 1944 so will require the 80-year-old Ford to look some 40 years younger.
The Indiana Jones franchise debuted in 1981 and became a cinema classic revered by its action sequences and its late 30s setting, which was a callback to movie serials and westerns of that time. The four previous movies’ grossed about $2 billion.
"Indiana Jones 5" will also star Antonio Banderas, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook, and Shaunette Renée Wilson.
Spielberg is expected to remain hands-on as a producer, while George Lucas, who co-created Indiana Jones with Spielberg, hasn’t been officially involved with the latest installment.
Last year, Cannes Film Festival was part of the global launch of "Top Gun: Maverick" with star Tom Cruise receiving an honorary Palme d’Or and the pic a five-minute standing ovation.
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