Harrison Ford back for new Indiana Jones movie

HARRISON Ford and director Steven Spielberg will return for a fifth instalment of action-adventure franchise Indiana Jones due for release in 2019.

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Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg will return for a fifth instalment of action-adventure franchise Indiana Jones due for release in July 2019, Walt Disney Co says.

Ford, 73, will reprise his role as the charming rogue archeologist who first appeared in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark with a penchant for getting into trouble on his quests to find historical treasure.

“Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history and we can’t wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019,” Disney chairman Alan Horn said in a statement.

The as yet untitled film will come 11 years after the last instalment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which Ford’s Jones reunited with his first love Marion (Karen Allen) and discovered he had a grown-up son, Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf).

Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which came out in 2008.

Disney did not immediately say if Allen and LaBeouf will return and did not reveal any plot details.

Franchise producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will produce.

The Indiana Jones franchise has grossed nearly $US2 billion ($A2.7 billion) at the global box office with four films and amassed a global fan base.

Ford cemented his action-star status with the role of Indiana Jones and as space smuggler Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise.

The veteran actor most recently reprised his role as Solo in Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the third highest-grossing film worldwide of all time.

The new Indiana Jones movie should just be Indy watching Bob Dylan at Gerde's Folk City in 1961 and then throwing a glass at his head.

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 15, 2016

I hope the new Indiana Jones movie is two straight hours of him trying to get a newfangled projector to work in his classroom.

— Brian Grubb (@briancgrubb) March 15, 2016

In 2019 there will be people of legal drinking age whose nostalgia for Indiana Jones stems from seeing CRYSTAL SKULL in theaters as a child.

— Griffin Newman 2016 (@GriffLightning) March 15, 2016

Ugh. Let's hope the next Indiana Jones movie doesn't have ALIENS. We need realistic stuff like God ghosts making Nazi heads explode.

— Jeff Loveness (@JeffLoveness) March 15, 2016