Disney/Lucasfilm’s "Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny", the fifth chapter of one of the most celebrated franchises in movie history, world premiered Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival.
When the credits rolled, Cannes mustered a muted standing ovation for Indy’s latest adventure from the crowd inside the Grand Theatre Lumière.
The applause lasted for five minutes, by Cannes standards that’s more of a polite formality.
As the night began, Hollywood star Harrison Ford was summoned to the stage by Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux to be feted with a surprise Palme d’Or after a career highlights reel— from “Star Wars” to “The Fugitive” — played onscreen.
“I’m very moved by this. They say when you’re about to die, you see your life flash before your eyes, and I just saw my life flash before my eyes,” Ford said.
"A great part of my life, but not all of my life. My life has been enabled by my lovely wife, who has supported my passion and my dreams, and I’m grateful,”.
“I love you, too. But I’ve got a movie you ought to see. It’s right behind me. So let me get out of the way, and thank you again for this great honor,” Ford told the audience.
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 and the Dial of Destiny” arrives almost 15 years after the last movie and over four decades after the initial installment, 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark”.
The upcoming installment once again finds Ford playing the world's most famous archeologist. Set in 1969 against the space race, Indy must once again fight off heinous Nazis.
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” will also star Antonio Banderas, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook, and Shaunette Renée Wilson.
It is the first Indiana Jones movie not directed by Steven Spielberg. “The Wolverine” and “Ford v Ferrari” director James Mangold took over the filmmaking duties of the movie.
Ford has stressed that the entry is the end of his tenure playing Indiana Jones.
“This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I’ll play the character. I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film.” Ford told Total Film magazine before Cannes.
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" will be released in theaters worldwide on June 30.
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