Well, while it’s not quite as exciting as a knight’s tomb declaring “X marks the spot,” director James Mangold did give us a bit of a hint on Twitter this week. “Although I’ve been cutting while shooting, I officially start editing INDY today!” Mangold tweeted. He went on to assure “all those asking about trailers and teasers, still drops and first looks and other peeks or sneaks,” that information will be coming, but it’s “just a bit too soon.” Obviously, we’re a bit disappointed that we still don’t have more information. After all, it’s been almost fourteen full years since the last Indiana Jones movie, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, hit theaters in 2008. For most fans, Crystal Skull was a poor follow-up to 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and a low point on which to leave the beloved adventurer/archaeologist/not-very-diligent college professor. We’re all hungry to see if this latest movie can give Indy a fitting ending. But if anyone has earned the benefit of the doubt, it’s James Mangold. Thanks to his work on films such as 3:10 to Yuma and Logan, Mangold has proven himself a reliable genre storyteller, someone who understands the mythic qualities and great potential of the characters he’s working with. Despite these new faces, Spielberg won’t be far behind. He’s producing the film, alongside Frank Marshall (producer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) and frequent Spielberg collaborator Kathleen Kennedy. Most importantly, Harrison Ford will once again be donning Indiana Jones’s leather coat and fedora, probably for the last time. Again, we don’t know much about the plot, but we do know that Ford will be joined by a fantastic cast of new characters to the franchise, including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, and Antonio Banderas. As of this writing, the film is still set to be released in the summer of 2023. Until then, we’ll just have to keep searching ancient temples and translating riddles to find more information. Or, we can be like Henry Jones and sit down until a solution presents itself!
