Tag: Indiana Jones

New Indiana Jones director gives ‘best version’ of Spielberg

CANNES, France (AFP) — It is no easy feat taking over an iconic saga like Indiana Jones, but new director James Mangold says he wanted to deliver the “best version” of what his childhood hero Steven Spielberg had done with the four previous films. Mangold took the reins from Spielberg to deliver the fifth film in the franchise with “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, […]

Indiana Jones: six things to know

By Emilie BICKERTON PARIS (AFP) – 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, […]

Indiana Jones hat fetches over $500,000 at auction

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Indiana Jones’s signature fedora fetched more than half a million dollars at a blockbuster London auction of rare memorabilia from some of the most iconic movies of the past 40 years. But the star attraction — the sleek jacket worn by the loveable Star Wars scoundrel Han Solo in “The Empire Strikes Back” — failed to clear the £500,000 ($665,000, 563,000 euros) reserve and went unsold. Organisers said they had […]