"Indiana Jones 5" to Premiere at Cannes with Tribute to Harrison Ford

The Cannes Film Festival has confirmed the world premiere of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”.

James Mangold and Harrison Ford will walk up the famous red carpet steps of the Palais des Festivals on May 18. The movie will screen out of competition.

Cannes will also pay a special tribute to Ford.

The Disney/Lucasfilm movie is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Simon Emanuel, with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas serving as executive producers. This installment will reportedly be Harrison Ford’s last time playing the titular character. 

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.

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" 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).