Disney to Bring Back ‘Indiana Jones,’ With Harrison Ford
By BROOKS BARNES

LOS ANGELES — Indy lives.

Walt Disney Studios on Tuesday said that it would restart the “Indiana Jones” movie franchise, with Steven Spielberg again in the director’s chair and Harrison Ford reprising the title role. The fifth film in the adventure series will arrive in theaters on July 19, 2019.

In making the announcement, Alan F. Horn, Disney’s film chairman, called Indiana Jones “one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history.” Details about the plot, casting or title were not made available.

Disney gained rights to the whip-wielding archaeologist with its $4 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. Restarting that boutique studio’s “Star Wars” series was a priority. But Disney — noticing renewed moviegoer interest in movie properties from the 1980s and 1990s, with Universal’s monster hit “Jurassic World” as Exhibit A — has now turned its focus to a resuscitation of the “Indiana Jones” brand.

Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, will serve as a producer of the new “Indiana Jones” movie, along with her husband, Frank Marshall. George Lucas, who had writing and producing credits on the first four “Indiana Jones” movies, is not expected to be involved with the new one.

Indy and his pals have taken in roughly $2 billion at the global box office since their arrival in 1981, sold billions of dollars in related merchandise, spawned rides at Disney theme parks and inspired spinoff TV series. But the last film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which was released by Paramount in 2008, was considered a misfire by many fans, with one of Mr. Lucas’s ideas — having Mr. Ford hide in an old refrigerator during a nuclear blast — mocked mercilessly online.

法櫃奇兵第五集 73歲福伯再扮瓊斯

印地安納瓊斯將再度揮鞭！迪士尼15日宣布，資深男星哈里遜福特和名導演史蒂芬史匹柏再度合作拍攝「法櫃奇兵」，第五集將於2019年7月19日上映，片名未定。

迪士尼電影董事長洪恩在聲明稿中表示：「印第安納瓊斯是影史最偉大的英雄之一，我們迫不及待讓他在2019年重返大銀幕。這麼好的導演、製片、演員和角色的絕配很少見，我們很興奮和哈里遜、史蒂芬展開冒險。」

哈里遜福特1981年首度飾演「法櫃奇兵」的考古學家和探險家，如今已73歲，先前傳聞，新的印第安納瓊斯電影會換人演，但史蒂芬史匹柏一直表示，不會換掉哈里遜福特。前四集都由69歲的史匹柏執導，全球累積票房將近20億美元。

迪士尼並未透露，第四集中飾演印地安納瓊斯舊愛的凱倫艾倫、飾演兒子的西亞李畢福是否歸隊，也未透露電影情節。

原文參照：
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/movies/disney-to-bring-back-indiana-jones-with-harrison-ford.html

紐約時報中文版翻譯：
http://cn.nytstyle.com/film-tv/20160317/t17indiana/zh-hant/

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