Disney building an Indiana Jones movie universe

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Though a totally different kettle of fish than “Star Wars” and the Marvel comic book movies – being that both of those franchises are intended to fix on different characters, not the one steadfast headline act – Disney have hinted that they’re planning to build a movie universe around their newly-acquired “Indiana Jones” label.

In addition to a recently announced fifth film in the series, one that will reunite Harrison Ford (as Indy) with director Steven Spielberg, ILM president Lynwen Brennan revealed to attendees at Star Wars Celebration Europe this past weekend that an interconnected series of films based on the “Indiana Jones” series could be in the works. What that likely means is that outside of the traditional Harrison Ford-starring “Indiana Jones” movie series, we’ll likely see spin-offs (maybe a Short Round movie?) or prequels to the earlier films (Young Indiana Jones is a given, no!?). Granted, the only confirmed new “Indy” film at this stage is 2019’s Ford-Spielberg effort, so those a little concerned about the ‘universe’ of films happening beyond that mightn’t need to be too worried just yet – the idea might just go away.

Inb4 Shia is in one of the spinoffs.