Indiana Jones is back in theaters next summer: the fifth and perhaps last episode of the franchise of the archaeologist-adventurer directed this time by James Mangold will be titled 'The Wheel of Destiny'.
Appointment on June 30, announces the trailer in which some sequences show a young Harrison Ford thanks to special effects.
"I miss the desert. I miss the sea. I miss waking up every morning wondering what wonderful adventure the day will bring," the voiceover says in the trailer.
Shot in Sicily, between Segesta and Cefalu', the film will be the last in the role for Ford who turned 80 last July and was injured on the set of Pinewood Studios last year during filming.
The trailer shows a sequence during a parade in New York and a horse chase through a subway tunnel.
Indy returns to using the whip but in the brief previews two familiar characters are missing: his wife Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) and son Mutt (Shia LaBeouf) who had played important roles in the fourth episode of the series "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Skull Crystal". That film was Steven Spielberg's last with the franchise he created in 1981 together with George Lucas: the director had opted to shoot 'The Fablemans' rather than 'return for the new 'Indiana' on whose script, according rumors, he had had some perplexities Spielberg and Lucas are still executive producers of the fifth film.
Young Indiana Jones appears in a flashback sequence set in 1944, eight years after the events of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
The rest of the story takes place in the late 1960s: Indy is living and teaching in New York until old friend Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) tries to convince him to get back into the game: "Those days are over," insists the professor.
"Maybe. And maybe not," replies the friend.
It is not yet clear what the object of desire is this time (the Wheel of Destiny of the title), but already from the trailer it is clear that many are looking for it, among them a former Nazi enthusiastic about aerospace played by Mads Mikkelsen and Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge of 'Fleabag'), a young woman who seems to have a personal relationship with Indiana: "
I'm her godfather" he says, while she gives him a voice: "He's half a relative'.
Also starring Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renee Wilson and Antonio Banderas.
Fans have been waiting for a new Indiana Jones for 14 years after 2008's "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was not as successful as hoped.
Also returning for the fifth film is 90-year-old John Williams who worked on the soundtrack of all the Indiana Joneses of the last forty years.
In early September, the doyen of Hollywood composers delighted audiences at the Hollywood Bowl with a new theme titled "Helena's Theme," a reference to the Waller-Bridge character he described as "