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After the passing of the &ldquo;Indiana Jones&rsquo;s&rdquo; torch from Spielberg to James Mangold, who proved time and time again to be one of the best blockbuster directors at the moment, helming some of the most celebrated big-budget movies of the past decade like the Oscar-winning movie &ldquo;Ford v Ferrari&rdquo; and the swan song of Wolverine &ldquo;Logan&rdquo;.
&ldquo;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny&rdquo; is the fifth installment in the iconic franchise, and it is the follow-up to the 2008's polarizing installment &ldquo;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&rdquo;, which introduced Indiana Jones&rsquo;s son &ldquo;Mutt&rdquo; played by Shia LaBeouf, who wasn&rsquo;t very well-received by the fans of the franchise and was later criticized by LaBeouf himself.
Mangold opened up in an interview with <a href="https://ew.com/movies/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-james-mangold-2023-preview/">EW</a> about his approach to reviving &ldquo;Indiana Jones&rdquo; and creating a large-scope action-adventure epic, the 59-year-old director said that the movie will span a few decades starting with 1944 with a "blast of classic Indy action, me doing my very best version of Steven [Spielberg], and Harrison doing his best version of being under 40".&nbsp;
The movie will jump ahead after that to 1969 where most of the story takes place, Mangold said "I mean, 1969 is the beginning of now, really, in terms of technology and the space race," says Mangold. "So, you have Cold Wars, nuclear power, intrigue, the lack of clear good guys and bad guys. In the same way, you have to be really considerate about how you try and transpose a fairly simplistic kind of black-hat, white-hat sensibility into a period that is more complicated. We try to exploit that by jumping forward into 1969 to a hero who is used to a black and white world, [but finds himself] in a world that has gone gray."
Mangold also stressed the integral role that the newcomer Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays in the movie describing her as the &ldquo;catalyst&rdquo; for the entire movie, saying, &ldquo;She's a daughter of a friend of Indy's, who we will also meet in the movie, Helena's gotten herself in a bit of trouble, and brings [that] to Indy's doorstep. She's a character who's a wonderful set of contradictions &mdash; charming and brilliant, but also a lot of trouble."
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Besides Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, &ldquo;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny&rdquo; will star Antonio Banderas, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, and Mads Mikkelsen and John Rhys-Davies who will reprise his role as Sallah who didn&rsquo;t play it since 1989&rsquo;s &ldquo;Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade&rdquo;. The movie is set to open in theatres on the 30th of June, 2023.

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