Indiana Jones 5 News

February 5, 2025
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Harrison Ford: "I'd like another crack at almost anything that I've ever done, but part of their charm was their sort of slap dash feeling to them. I don't think I'd be stupid enough to go back and redo anything. That was absolutely my fierce desire to play him as an older man. He's not especially admired. To see him diminished, to see him suffer the consequences of the life that he had led in a rather serious way. He's tired of teaching. He's down on his luck. He hasn't had an adventure for a long time. That's a great place to start. S*** happens. I was really the one who felt there was another story to tell. When he had suffered the consequences of the life that he had to live, I wanted one more chance to pick him up and shake the dust off his ass and stick him out there, bereft of some of his vigor, to see what happened. I'm still happy I made that movie. You don't need artificial intelligence to steal my soul. You can already do it for nickels and dimes with good ideas and talent. (Troy Baker in Great Circle) did a brilliant job, and it didn't take AI to do it."

February 15, 2025
NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
Harrison Ford: "That was it. Indiana Jones has been a wonderful chapter in my life. I am proud of the five movies we made, and I will be forever grateful that we got to give the character the ending he deserves."

February 15, 2025
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER PODCAST
James Mangold: "It was the biggest movie I ever made and made during the height of COVID. And in a way, the main joy of making that film for me was the company I had. I came of age in the 70s watching these movies, and here I was talking with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford and Kathy Kennedy and scoring with John Williams. And this film was for me a chance to kind of close the circle with the people who inspired me from the very beginning. You know, I wish it had been perceived as being more of a smashing success, but I'm very proud of the movie and I love the relationships I made on the film which continue to be huge for me. But it was also a very good lesson in the expectation levels on franchise films and the kind of incredible field that you have with franchise films at this point."

February 27, 2025
DEADLINE
Kathleen Kennedy: "(Frank Marshall) is truly something. I cannot keep pace most of the time with what he's doing. If something came along that the two of us, we loved coming back together and being able to work with Mangold on the Indy movie, that was a real treat. And to be working with Steven and as they say, getting the band back together, that was really fun. We had a blast."

March 22, 2025
BLANK CHECK PODCAST
Griffin Newman: "Years ago, I auditioned for what they had said was Untitled Star Wars Project. When I read the sides, I was like, this is clearly a Young Indiana Jones show. It was going to be animated. Then I think as like Dial of Destiny was getting complicated, they were like, let's just focus on this and not do the side show. But there was going to be a Disney Plus animated River Phoenix-esque rather than Young Indiana Jones-esque. The thing that was very funny about the Indiana Jones cartoon thing was usually, you'll get these breakdowns and it'll be like, Untitled Lucasfilm Project and you read it and you're like, this is Star Wars, but they're trying to hide that it's Star Wars. They sent out as Untitled Star Wars Cartoon Show and I was like, oh cool, I'm auditioning for a Star Wars cartoon show. Then I read the sides and they gave all the characters alien names, but they talked about being at a university and studying adventurers and wanting to collect relics. I was like, you're using Star Wars as a cover for it being Indiana Jones. You've named all the characters like Blurk Blurk. But I was like, I think I'm reading for either Young Sallah or Young Brody."

May 7, 2025
EMPIRE MAGAZINE
James Mangold: "This (parade image) is on the backlot at Pinewood, because we had horse action we wanted to do. And we ran out of time in Glasgow, and had to gather it later. So this is pretty late on in the show, on a parking lot at Pinewood. We had to set up there, and there were a couple of structures we dressed as shops. I was a little limited in my angles, but it was amazing, I would always joke with Harrison, when he wasn't dressed as Indy and runs, it's like Clear and Present Danger. It instantly becomes another movie without the hat or whip. But for me, forcing an iconic character into this modern context and seeing him having to contend with how the world has changed around them is perennially interesting."

June 30, 2025
DISINSIDER: Lucasfilm is letting the franchise rest for a bit before they do a full reboot of the franchise. I would expect the studio to announce something next year at the D23 Expo because even though the last film tanked at the box office, Indiana Jones is still an iconic IP and Disney/Lucasfilm do not want to waste that.

Jun 27, 2025
INDIEWIRE SCREEN TALK PODCAST
David Koepp: "I had come on when Steven was considering directing it, and I'd done four or five drafts with him, pursuing two completely different ideas. There was one version he wanted to do, but Harrison didn't, and then there was that one Harrison wanted to do, but he didn't, and it didn't come together. But when he said, I don't think I can do it, and Mangold came in, I just felt like that's, I think Mangold is being polite, even including me in a conversation, but come on, he doesn't want the baggage, he doesn't want the ex-wife. He's gotta have his own view and his own people he likes to work with. And I'm a little tapped out. So it was that."

July 3, 2025
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
David Koepp: "Well, I don't see it continuing. Everybody made it pretty clear. Harrison was like (Harrison Ford impression) yeah, I'm done. So it would need to be somebody's brand new idea about how to come at that. I'd watch it as a streaming show. Streaming is perfectly suited to a serial adventure, which is what Indiana Jones was. He could have a season-long goal and you don't have to wrap up the story every week like with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. But I think their plan is to just let it be for a while."

July 30, 2025
VARIETY
Harrison Ford: "Well, I wanted to see him as an older man facing the consequences of the life that he had lived. But I couldn't imagine that we were going to end up doing five of them. I didn't expect success. In the movie business, you always go in wanting to be successful, but you don't always expect to be. I did expect the first film would be wildly successful."