Harrison Ford, who is 80, will be honored by the Cannes Film Festival, no further details were given, but he could maybe be getting the same honorary Palme that Tom Cruise received last year.
Ford will also be on hand to screen “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which will be the fifth and final time he plays the titular hero. Cannes actually confirmed the screening this morning.
‘Dial of Destiny’ will screen during the third day of the festival, on May 18th. We’re not very surprised by this news. It was inevitably going to happen. However, beware. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull” also had a big splashy Cannes premiere in 2008 and we all know how that one turned out.
Early last week, I wrote:
Ford is an Octogenarian and he’s already stretching it by appearing in this upcoming Indy movie, set for summer release. The trailers looked good enough, but there’s an air of been-there-done-that surrounding this fifth film.
What Disney are surely hoping for is a successful Cannois launch akin to last year’s incredible “Top Gun: Maverick” reception, which was met with positive reviews and an honorary Palme d’Or for Tom Cruise.
‘Dial of Destiny’ has a $300 million budget. I don’t sense any genuine excitement for this film, but people will show up this summer to see it (I think). The stench of ‘Crystal Skull’ is still felt by many fans, but given that this is Ford’s final hurrah with the fedora and whip maybe that’ll be enough to sway audiences to buy a ticket.
Mangold is a talented “hired-hand” filmmaker with no real “auteur” stamp to his style. Don’t get me wrong, he’s highly talented behind the camera, but what exactly links “Ford v Ferrari,” “Logan” and “3:10 to Yuma”? The myth of the male hero?
