Indiana Jones 5 Not Just A One-Off

Don’t expect to bid adieu to Indiana Jones anytime soon with a bona fide sequel currently in the pipeline for 2019, Disney Chairman Bob Iger has teased the company’s plans for cinema’s most endearing archaeologist beyond Indiana Jones 5.

In an interview Iger danced around the specific details of Disney’s brainstorming process, but did confirm that Indy 5 won’t be just a one-off when it releases in a few years’ time. Exactly where the House of Mouse takes Indiana Jones after its fifth mainline installment is still up for debate so early on in the sequel’s lifecycle, though Iger cautioned he doesn’t expect Disney to spin out a bona fide universe around Ford’s wisecracking treasure hunter.

He said “Not like Star Wars, but we hope… right now, we’re focused on a reboot, or a continuum and then a reboot of some sort. Well, we’ll bring him back, then we have to figure out what comes next. That’s what I mean. It’s not really a reboot, it’s a boot — a reboot. I don’t know. We [got] Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the film. But then what’s the direction? I’ve had discussions about what the direction is, [but] I don’t want to get into it. I don’t think it reaches the scale of the universe of Star Wars, but I see making more. It won’t be just a one-off.”

Indiana Jones 5 is penciled in for release on July 19, 2019.