The actress and creator of the series “Fleabag”, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, will star alongside Harrison Ford the new movie of “Indiana Jones” that will hit theaters at mid 2022, Lucasfilm production company announced this Friday.
The fifth installment in the series, which will be directed by James Mangold (“Ford v Ferrari”), has been heralded as the last time that the 78-year-old Ford will play the famous archaeologist.
The “new adventure” will feature a “dream team of great filmmakers of all time,” including producers Steven Spielberg -who was initially going to direct the film- and Kathleen KennedyMangold said in a statement to AFP.
“When you add Phoebe, a stunning actress, a brilliant creative voice, and the chemistry she is sure to bring to our set, I can’t help but feel as lucky as Indiana Jones himself,” added Mangold.
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More of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s job
The cast capped off the remarkable rise of 35-year-old British actress and writer Waller-Bridge, who won multiple Emmys for “Fleabag“The successful television adaptation of his one-man show about a disillusioned young single woman in London.
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Waller-Bridge has also been co-author from the spy thriller “Killing Eve” and the next James Bond movie “No Time To Die”, delayed by the pandemic.
She has previously worked with Lucasfilm, playing the steely droid L3-37 on “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (2018).
The fifth Indiana Jones film has been in production for years, and Lucasfilm’s parent company Disney confirmed Ford’s return in December.
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A Little Bit of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones
Ford first donned the adventurer’s characteristic hat and whip in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, 1981, few years after achieving world fame as Han Solo in the original “Star Wars” movie.
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Three years later, it came “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”, and in 1989 it was released “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, with Sean Connery in the role of Indy’s father.
Almost 20 years passed before Ford starred in the fourth film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, which was successful at the box office but received poor reviews.
The legendary composer John Williams, who created the famous Indy theme song, will compose the score for the fifth film, scheduled for July 2022.
Just listen:
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