Cannes 2023: 6 Things To Know Ahead Of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny Screening
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The film is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday
Indiana Jones turned archaeology into a swashbuckling adventure of snake pits and lost treasures. As 80-year-old Harrison Ford dons the beat-up fedora and ever-trusty whip for a fifth and final outing in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny", premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, here are six facts about one of the world's best-loved movie heroes:
Born in Hawaii
Fittingly for the globetrotting Indy, whose escapades have taken him from the Himalayas to Shanghai nightclubs, the project was born in Hawaii. It was there, lounging on a Maui beach in 1977, that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg mulled ideas to follow their respective hits, Star Wars and Jaw. The beach brainstorms would make movie history. Produced by Lucas and directed by Spielberg, 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was a triumph at the box office and scooped four Oscars. Two sequels - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - built a legend that has inspired theme parks, video games and mountains of merchandise. A fourth outing nearly two decades later, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" brought the combined box office takings to nearly $2 billion.
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