"Indiana Jones 5" Runtime Unveiled

The runtime for "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" will be the longest film in the iconic action-adventure franchise.

The fifth installment will be approximately 2 hours and 22 minutes in length.

"It’s around 2 hours and 22-23 minutes because runtime seems to be a hot topic. I will say that the early movies were shorter. They were under two [hours] 15 [minutes]. And we talked about that quite a bit, so now I see why maybe they're interested in it. But as you know, with runtime, it’s all about how you feel, right?"  Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said in a statement.

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.

Ford is set to be de-aged for the opening sequence of the upcoming movie. The sequence was put together using brand new software that used archive footage of Ford from the earlier Indiana Jones movies and matched it with new material shot for the upcoming movie.

The original leather jacket that Ford wore in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was also used and replicated to fit present-day Ford.

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" also stars 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.

While the plot is being kept under wraps, the movie seems to find Dr. Jones facing off against former Nazis in a flashback sequence that uses de-aging technology to zap Ford back in time. 

John Williams, who has scored each Indiana Jones adventure since the original “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981, has once again composed the score.

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is set to be released in cinemas on June 28 in France and on June 30 in the U.S.

Ford has played some of the most iconic roles of the last 50 years including Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise and Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” (1982), and Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049” (2017).