Disney+ Dials In 'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny' Premiere Date
Grandpa’s coming home for Christmas!
Disney+ has announced that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth installment of the Harrison Ford-starring franchise, will arrive on the service on December 1, 2023.
For those keeping track, that is 155 days from its June 30 (officially marked) theatrical release. That is nearly three weeks later than the last Lucasfilm film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which made it to streaming two months earlier than anticipated, both for Star Wars Day and it being less than two months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, that pandemic contributed to further delays of this very film, completely reset the expectations of theatrical windows to the point of unpredictability. This year, Disney had been pretty consistent about a 90-day theatrical window, though the The Little Mermaid remake took two more weeks while Haunted Mansion took only 68 days from its July 28 theatrical release to hit Disney+ in time for the Halloween season, arriving on October 4. Two of this year’s biggest earners have also had 100+ day theatrical windows, considered long under these new expectations: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which arrived on Peacock on August 3 after 120 days, and Barbie, which is on day 103 and has about 52 left before it misses its “fall” promise to hit Max.
The likely final film of the series and the first or only to be made after Lucasfilm was sold to Disney in 2012, it saw the “daredevil archaeologist” race against time to recover a legendary dial that allows its user to time travel. With his goddaughter Helena Shaw, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, he soon finds himself battling Jürgen Voller, played by Mads Mikkelsen, a Nazi NASA employee. The film also stars Antonio Banderas, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Olivier Richters, newcomer Ethann Isidore, and features the returns of Karen Allen as Indy’s now estranged wife Marion Ravenwood and John Rhys Davies as ally Sallah.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is directed by James Mangold and written by him, Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth and David Koepp. It will likely be the only film in the series not directed by Steven Spielberg. It joins not only the four previous films in the series, but the television series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, which hadn’t been streaming before it was added on May 31.
Source: What's On Disney Plus