When the news broke in 2014 that Harrison Ford had broken his leg while reprising his role as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it might have seemed like that it was a sign that Ford would be unlikely to ever commit to such an action role again. This week, however, we learned that the actor will indeed be returning as the iconic character who is arguably Ford’s most action-driven. Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Pictures have announced a July 19, 2019 release date for the fifth Indiana Jones movie , to be directed once again by Steven Spielberg. This will likely be Spielberg’s third upcoming film, after The BFG (7/1/16) and Ready Player One (3/30/18). That release date also coincidentally happens to be just 6 days after what will be Harrison Ford’s 77th birthday, on July 13, 2019. We don’t know yet what form the fifth Indiana Jones movie will take, although based on Ford’s age, and Indiana Jones’ fictional birth year (1899), that the movie could be set in the “disco age” of the 1970s. We also learned this week that this fifth Indiana Jones will once again be written by screenwriter David Koepp, who infamously gave the world the scene where Indiana Jones avoids a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator (real life spoiler: that wouldn’t work). In the past, Indiana Jones has had adventures involving the Ark of the Covenant, a death cult, the Holy Grail, and aliens. What do you think is next for Indy?
