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  • ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Adds Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Female Lead

    ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Adds Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Female Lead

    We finally got the confirmation during Disney’s Investors Day that a new Indiana Jones film was in development. Logan‘s James Mangold will direct the upcoming entry of the Lucasfilm franchise, which will see the return of Harrison Ford in the titular role. Pheobe Waller-Bridge is the first to join the production and well co-star in the fifth installment of the franchise. Steven Spielberg will continue to serve as a producer on the project alongside Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Simon Emanuel. John Williams is also confirmed to return to score the film, whose time adventure with the franchise started all the way back with Raiders of the Lost Ark.

    James Mangold shared his enthusiasm about tackling this iconic franchise and Waller-Bridge‘s addition to the cast:

    I’m thrilled to be starting a new adventure, collaborating with a dream team of all-time great filmmakers. Steven, Harrison, Kathy, Frank, and John are all artistic heroes of mine. When you add Phoebe, a dazzling actor, brilliant creative voice and the chemistry she will undoubtedly bring to our set, I can’t help but feel as lucky as Indiana Jones himself.

    The last film in the franchise was 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which introduced the world to Jones’s son, Shia LaBeouf‘s Mutt Williams. It is uncertain if he will also make an appearance of some kind, or they might be steering away from that film’s plotlines. The film will be the first that wasn’t directed by Spielberg. So, it’ll be interesting to see what Mangold offers to make it stand out from the rest of the franchise. It may also be the beginning for the franchise to kick off a new era.

  • Bethesda Reveals New ‘Indiana Jones’ Game

    Bethesda Reveals New ‘Indiana Jones’ Game

    Just yesterday, LucasFilms has announced that they are establishing their own gaming division titled LucasFilm Games. Looks like that announcement was just the build-up, as Bethesda just announced that they are actively working on a game based on Indiana Jones. It is nothing more than a teaser visual with the confirmation that the production studio Machine Games is working on it alongside LucasFilm Games. Still, just like IO Interactive’s 007 teaser trailer, it uses those nostalgia-filled visuals that still manage to get us excited within a few seconds.

    So, the big question is how they’ll approach a game based on the titular character. Like many other adventure games, it may be strongly inspired by the Uncharted franchise. Naughty Dog’s game has redefined the globe-trotting treasure hunt genre, so much that even Crystal Dynamic’s Tomb Raider remake was strongly inspired by it. Machine Games has quite an extensive library of games on their belt, most notably the Wolfenstein franchise. So, they could turn Indiana Jones into a First-Person Shooter with whipping action.

    Either way, the game might be in its early conceptual stages, so it is just pure speculation for now. If we are lucky, they might even have a concept trailer showing our first bit of gameplay during this year’s E3, so there is enough time before we hear more about this project. It is interesting to see this resurgence of classic IPs getting reborn as games, so it’ll be interesting what other projects might be hiding in the woodwork. Indiana Jones is no stranger to gaming, as his first game was on the Atari 2600. The last game in the franchise was from 2010 on Facebook titled Indiana Jones Adventure World, so this is a return to form for the adventurer.

    Source: Star Wars, Twitter