Spielberg to Direct ‘Indiana Jones’ in 2019
Disney announced this morning that another sequel based on the action character Indiana Jones will return to movie theaters on July 19, 2019.
This marks the fifth picture in the popular series, which was introduced in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and continued with 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, earning what Disney estimates as nearly $2 billion in worldwide box office receipts.
Disney announced that the legendary Steven Spielberg (War Horse, E.T., Bridge of Spies, Schindler’s List, Lincoln, Munich), who directed each movie in the series, will also direct the currently untitled project. Harrison Ford (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will return to star as the archaeologist and explorer in the title role. Producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are also back on board, so this new movie should deliver more of the same exciting, throwback adventurism, though Disney did not announce who will write the screenplay.