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'Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first
25 minutes

The technology used old LucasFilm footage of Ford for accuracy.
Harrison Ford looks at something (or someone) off camera as he stands
in what appears to be an old train car with communications gear off
to the side. It's dark out and there's soft yellow lighting inside.
LucasFilm
Sarah Fielding
Sarah Fielding|April 26, 2023 6:35 AM

A young Harrison Ford will grace cinema screens for 25 minutes this
summer -- aided by some new Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) software.
The news that LucasFilm's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny would
feature a de-aged Ford came at the end of last year, but an interview
with director James Mangold in Total Film just revealed it will be
for almost a fifth of the film's running time. 

The fifth Indiana Jones iteration starts with an opening scene from
1944 -- about eight years after Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the
Lost Ark took place. "My hope is that, although it will be talked
about in terms of technology, you just watch it and go, 'Oh my God,
they just found footage. This was a thing they shot 40 years ago,"
Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm and a producer, told Empire.
The rest of the movie shoots forward to 1969, with Indy on a mission
to prevent a comeback of Nazism.

The news of Ford's extended return to his thirties comes a few months
after Disney, which produced the movie alongside LucasFilm, announced
it had built an AI that could make an actor appear older or younger
with relative ease at the end of last year. The researchers behind
the AI, known as FRAN (face re-aging network), explained it would
only work with real people if there were images available of the
person in those poses and lighting at a younger age.

Footage of Ford's earlier roles was pulled from the Lucasfilm
archives to accomplish this. Ford also acted with dots across his
face to aid the system -- and with the agility of a young man,
according to Mangold. Then, the technology would quickly do its
thing. Mangold would "shoot Harrison on a Monday as, you know, a
79-year-old playing a 35-year-old, and I could see dailies by
Wednesday with his head already replaced." 

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