Grab your whip and satchel, because Indiana Jones is returning to the silver screen in 2019. Steven Spielberg himself will direct, with Harrison Ford reprising the titular role of archaeology professor-turned-adventurer who tangles Nazis, Commies, and ghosts to preserve history that belongs in a museum. Franchise veterans Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will produce under Lucasfilm's new ownership at Walt Disney Studios.

&#x201c;Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history, and we can&#x2019;t wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019,&#x201d; says Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn. &#x201c;It&#x2019;s rare to have such a perfect combination of director, producers, actor and role, and we couldn&#x2019;t be more excited to embark on this adventure with Harrison and Steven.&#x201d;

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The new film doesn't yet have a title, and there's no world about whether [Shia LaBeouf](http://thecampaignbook.com/) will take a break from his performance art escapades with collective-mates [Nastja Säde Rönkkö](http://nastjar.com/) and [Luke Turner](http://luketurner.com/) to once more don the leather jacket and motorcycle of Jones' son, Mutt Williams.

With the success of _Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens_, it's no surprise that Disney is clamoring for more sequels. As one of the original sequel-machines of the 80s, Indiana Jones is still in good shape to pull its weight at cinemas once more. Even [science indicates](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/poll-indiana-jones-is-the-most-popular-movie-character-ever) that Ford's character is one of the most popular of all time, and the franchise has net a total of $2 billion since _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ came out in 1981.

Enjoy John Williams' classic score and Ford's scoundrel-y vibe in the original Indiana Jones trailer below, and GET PUMPED.

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark. A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, among others, Raiders of the Lost Ark is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing 22 million dollars (nearly three times the original estimate), Raiders of the Lost Ark reaped 200 million dollars during its first run. It was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), as well as a short-lived TV-series "prequel."

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - Trailer

The new film is set to open on July 19, 2019. Visit [Walt Disney Studios](http://waltdisneystudios.com/) for more information.

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