Harrison Ford is getting young again for the next film in the Indiana Jones franchise: The first stills from the fifth installment of the popular franchise have appeared in Empire magazine, showing the actor – aged 80 in July – at the age of first trilogy. The special rejuvenation effect was only used in the opening sequences of the 1944 film set in a castle, in which we once again have to deal with the adventurous archaeologist with whip and fedora with a Nazi gang.
“Then we rush forward and we get to 1969,” said director James Mangold, who took over the reins of the series from Steven Spielberg: “So for the audience, there won’t be a conceptual leap between the ’40s and ’60s: the viewers will have an adventurous spirit “The idea,” explained producer Kathleen Kennedy, “is to make us think we’ve found old movies: something that was shot many years ago.” Harrison himself found his younger alter ego “slightly spooky,” but adding that “he sees himself as he was in the early 80’s when ‘Predator of the Lost Ark’ came out” didn’t let him go back in time: “I’ve earned my years “.
A range of sophisticated technologies were used to rejuvenate the star, including new software that navigated through archival footage and found the images, which were then overlaid with those from recent filming. Indiana Jones 5 is set against the backdrop of the superpowers race for space supremacy. The film takes a step back to the roots of Raiders of the Lost Ark by once again pitting Indiana against Nazi opponents. A number of scenes take place at the parade that welcomed the Apollo 11 astronauts to New York on August 13, 1969. “The fact is that the Apollo moon landing program was in the hands of a group of ex-Nazis. Ex is a good question,” said Jez Butterworth, one of the screenwriters. The Indiana counterpart is a scientist named Voller, whose character is played by Mads Mikkelsen, loosely based on Wernher von Braun, the architect of NASA’s space program who was part of the ‘SS’ in his youth: “A man who wanted to rectify his past. There is something that would make the world a better place could do and he wants to. The problem is that Indiana wants it too. That’s how the story was born,” he explains.
Indiana Jones isn’t the only film to use digital technology to play with the ages of its actors. Famous at the time was The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s 2019 mafia drama, which used the Industrial Light & Magic technologies already made famous by the Star Wars saga to give the girls a bath of teenage older stars to indulge, including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.
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