Two highly anticipated films, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, directed by James Mangold, starring Harrison Ford, and Killers of the Flower Moon directed by Martin Scorsese starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, will world premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
15 years after the presentation in 2008 of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull directed by Steven Spielberg, the festival will host for the world premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, starring Harrison Ford as the legendary hero in the final installment of the Lucasfilm saga. The film will screen on Thursday, May 18 in Cannes and will be released in theaters on June 28 in France and June 30 in the United States.
James Mangold and Harrison Ford alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore and Mads Mikkelsen are expected to be in attendance. .
“In 1995, I was honored to come to Cannes with my first film Heavy, as part of Director’s Fortnite. Twenty-eight years later, I am proud to return with a slightly larger spectacle. My legendary collaborators and I are very excited to share a brand new and final Indiana Jones adventure with you!”, declared director James Mangold.
Based on David Grann’s best-selling book and written for the screen by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the “Reign of Terror”.
The film will screen on Saturday, May 20 with Martin Scorsese along with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, Tantoo Cardinal, along with additional cast and members of the filmmaking team in attendance.
Director, screenwriter, actor and producer, Martin Scorsese was awarded the Palme d’or at the festival in 1976 with Taxi Driver. He came back to the Official Selection on a regular basis and won the Best Director’s Award for After Hours, 10 years after the success of Taxi Driver.
In 1998, he was the President of the Jury that presented the Palme d’or to Greek director Theo Angelopoulos for Eternity and a Day. Four years later, he chaired the Jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Films alongside with the Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami.