Indiana Jones 5 (as yet untitled) has been intriguing fans ever since it was announced. The first of the series to not be a Paramount production since the Disney takeover of Lucasfilm, no Spielberg in the director’s chair, no Story By for George Lucas, the only thing holding the production together was star Harrison Ford returning a final time as the character only he can play.

Empire Online put out a recent piece on what could be expected from the fifth installment of the long-running action-adventure series and, aside from Mads Mikkelsen playing the big bad, Voller, it’s going to be far different than anyone could have predicted. Indy’s back, but far from the heyday of adventure. This time he’s in the swinging Space Age year of 1969 to face down a new slew of Nazis helping to build American rocket ships in the film set to release June 30th, 2023.

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Empire, in their new Indiana Jones 5 reveal, took the time to get into the plot of the final movie in the franchise. The movie, set in 1969—the year of the moon landing—would see Professor Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. (his name inspired by George Walton Lucas, Jr. and Lucas' former malamute, Indiana), at the ripe old age of 70 considering his series canonical birthdate of 1899. Considering the life he’s led, it’s both the years and the mileage at this point, with the director, James Mangold (Logan), confirming they lean into the age thing and not just in a jokey way. However old Indy is, though, he’ll be back and facing down a new crop of Nazis (led by Mads Mikkelsen’s villainous Voller) who are helping the US government with its rocketry program, but whom Indy discovers aren’t as “ex-Nazi” as their Operation Paperclip statuses would otherwise say.

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Mikkelsen’s Voller looks like the 1960s version of the Nazi Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark (who burns his hand and has the coat hanger gag), bringing the franchise full circle. This wouldn’t be the first time a movie has played with the darker implications of the real-life Operation Paperclip which was the US’s attempt to whitewash Nazi war criminals by laundering them into American citizens to help out the country during the Space Race against the Russians. Comedy movies like Down With Love touch on the idea lightly and films like Captain America: The Winter Soldier use it for the plot machinations with Hydra standing in for the worst bits of the real-life Nazi party.

The film will see him and Indiana Jones pitted against each other in the quest for “…something that could make the world a much better place to live in. He would love to get his hands on it. Indiana Jones wants to get his hands on it as well. And so, we have a story,” according to Mikkelsen. Something that a Nazi would believe would make the world a better place—as anyone with a passing familiarity with WWII knows their vision for a better world—and is also something Indiana Jones wants means that whatever it is must have implications as large as the Ark of the Covenant itself. No Sankara Stones or Crystal Skulls here.

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The film will also see Indiana Jones aided by Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena while the Nazi side will see Boyd Holbrook’s psychotic Klaber as Voller’s right-hand lapdog. There’s to be a particularly memorable sequence where Klaber and Indiana Jones chase each other through a recreation of the real-life 1969 ticker tape parade in New York City to honor the astronauts. Indiana Jones in the age of the Space Race, decades beyond his youth in the fabulous art deco 1930s or even his middle age in the more straight-laced 1950s will surely put him to the test as much as the villains and their plans. Only time will tell what Indiana Jones will do.

Indiana Jones 5 is set to release June 30th, 2023.

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Source: Empire Online