‘Indiana Jones 5’: How Involved Is Steven Spielberg?

For the first time in the “Indiana Jones” saga, Steven Spielberg entrusted the director’s chair to someone else, in particular James Mangold, who went behind the scenes of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”, a film that will hit theaters June 30. At 76, King Midas of Hollywood has decided to stay on as executive producer of this fifth installment of the franchise while dedicating himself to directing other more personal titles such as ‘Los Fabelmans’ or what appears to be his next project, a kind of reboot /sequel to ‘Bullitt’ starring Bradley Cooper as Frank Bullitt (played by Steve McQueen in 1968).

It may then that fans of the most famous archaeologist in the history of cinema wonder what exactly is the role that Spielberg occupies in ‘Dial of Fate’ and in an interview with Deadline, the director clarified his level of involvement is “peripheral”: “I supported the hiring of James Mangold for the fifth film”Spielberg says, “and I’ll let him make most of the decisions.”

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Titled ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’, Mangold worked on a screenplay signed by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth in which the director himself participated. Of course, Harrison Ford returns to play the legendary adventurer Henry Walton Jones, Jr. and Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, John Rhys-Davies, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Oliver Richters and Ethann Isidore joined the franchise.

The film will take us to 1969, in the midst of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The villains will once again be the Nazis, Jones’ eternal rivals, hidden among the scientists of the space programs. ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’ will be released in theaters on June 30th.