October 2012 Disney buys her Lucasfilmproduction company of George Lucas, and with it the universe”star Wars“.

However, the package … included another one, beloved by everyone and commercially successful. franchise:”Indiana Jones“. More than a decade later, the legendary archaeologist returns in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, where 81-year-old Harrison Ford holds the whip for the last (?) time, and the film will premiere at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. At that time, Steven Spielberg, the director of all previous films, decided to hand over the reins here to James Mangold. He, along with George Lucas, was reduced to an advisory executive producer role.

What, however, sense, except commercial, can be in the creation of the fifth Indiana Jones? Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy said, “We all felt that if we could end the series with another film, given that Harrison was so excited about the idea, we should do it.” The new head of the project, James Mangold, for his part, brings his interesting aesthetic, which we admired in the last “Logan” and “Against All”. Together with him, his permanent partner, “our” Fedonas Papamichael, works as a director of photography.

As for the case, it takes place at the end of the Cold War in the 1960s against the backdrop of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union. And Indiana Jones is worried about the involvement of ex-Nazis in the US NASA program, while his ally in the mission to expose them is his baptism, played by (popular in recent years) Phoebe Waller-Bridge. These events essentially pick up Indy where we left off in 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, although the opening scene takes place back in the 1940s. main character in five different decades.

However, the question remains about the usefulness of yet another sequel. At the same time, the fourth “John Wick» collects $250 million in worldwide gross, Marvel continues to work on sequels to literally a dozen superhero franchises, and Vin Diesel returns next month with the tenth (!) Street Fighter installment. Obviously, the point is not only in the absence of new ideas, but, on the contrary, in the ten-year refusal of major studios to support new grandiose projects that do not guarantee even a minimal percentage of profitability. It is no coincidence that original films of an epic nature, for example, inspired by ancient Greece (Troy, Alexander), have almost completely disappeared. Meanwhile, Ridley Scott, 23 years later, recently released a sequel to Gladiator, and The Lord of the Rings, now showing in 4K in Greek theaters, would probably be sitting in a drawer today. ..