It is official: Harrison Ford shall be returning to crack his well-known whip as soon as extra as archaeologist-turned-adventurer Indiana Jones in a long-delayed fifth installment of the beloved film franchise.

Disney first introduced the movie again in 2016, and it was slated to be launched in July 2019. However the film has been delayed by an ever-changing inventive group, together with screenwriter David Koepp, who has left and returned to the venture over the previous few years, in keeping with Collider.

Now, Ford’s longtime inventive collaborator on Indy, Steven Spielberg, has exited the venture as director. (Spielberg and Koepp have collaborated earlier than, together with on Jurassic Park.) Selection experiences that Spielberg has voluntarily stepped away in an effort to enable a “new technology” of storytelling expertise to take the franchise in a special course. It is also price noting that Spielberg is busy engaged on one other film slated to launch this 12 months, the remake of West Facet Story.

Here is what else we learn about Indiana Jones 5 to date.

When is the discharge date?

Whereas manufacturing on the as-yet-untitled fifth film has been pushed again a number of instances, it’s nonetheless presently scheduled for a launch of July 9, 2021.

Throughout a latest look on Ellen, Ford mentioned that he hopes Indiana Jones 5 will begin filming this summer season. And in an look on CBS Sunday Morning, Ford talked just a little extra about what it is like to return again to characters like Indiana Jones and Han Solo.

“I really feel obliged to ensure that our efforts are as formidable as once we began,” he mentioned.