Weekly Kibbitz
Harrison Ford to Fight Nazis Again
in Forthcoming ‘Indiana Jones’
Sequel Indy’s going to sock it to the Third
Reich once more.

The fi fth movie in the Indiana Jones
series will plop Harrison Ford’s heroic
archaeologist into “a castle swarming
with Nazis” in the year 1944, accord-
ing to new plot details revealed this
week in Empire magazine. Digital
de-aging technology will be used to
make Ford appear young again for
the opening sequence before the fi lm
transitions to the year 1969.

Leaked set photos had previously
hinted that Nazis would be involved
in the story to some degree, but the
full details were not known. The
image of Indy fi ghting Nazis with
his bare fi sts became an iconic part
of series lore after its fi rst entry,
1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” but
the most recent go-around, 2008’s
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull,” was set in the
1950s and swapped Nazi villains for
Soviets. Although the character is not
canonically Jewish, Jones is known
for staring down antisemites over
biblical artifacts in the fi rst and third
entries in the series, making him
something of a Jewish folk hero.

In the universe of the series, Hitler’s
army has been subjected to cos-
mic punishments for attempting to
exploit holy items, implying the exis-
tence of a Hebrew Almighty: “Raiders”
depicts a gang of Nazis getting their
faces melted off by a divine pres-
ence after they pry open the Ark of
the Covenant, while 1989’s “Indiana
Jones and the Last Crusade” ends
with a Nazi crumbling to dust after
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Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are seen on the set of “Indiana Jones 5”
in Sicily on Oct. 18, 2021, in Castellammare del Golfo, Italy.

he tries to drink from the Holy Grail
(and also features Adolf Hitler signing
autographs at a Berlin book-burning).

Set to be released next year, the
still-untitled fi fth Indiana Jones
movie will co-star Phoebe Waller-
Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen, and
it is the fi rst not to be directed by
Steven Spielberg. He has handed the
reins to James Mangold, whose other
credits include “Logan” and “Ford v.

Ferrari.” Spielberg, who created the
character with George Lucas and
remains involved as a producer on
the fi fth entry, has said he based the
franchise on the adventure serials of
his youth.

Another artifact of Spielberg’s
childhood is an early Oscar favorite:
“The Fabelmans,” a loose retelling
of his Jewish upbringing, got a wide
theatrical release over Thanksgiving.

-By Andrew Lapin
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