Although the majority of Indiana Jones 5 takes place in 1969 amidst the Space Race, the 2023 new movie release will open in a time period that hasn’t been explored in an Indiana Jones movie before: World War II. Lead actor Harrison Ford was digitally de-aged for an action sequence that will depict his first encounter with Mads Mikkelsen’s Jürgen Voller, the movie’s main antagonist, in 1944, and we got our first taste of how it will look in the Dial of Destiny teaser trailer released last December. However, because the de-aging used on Ford differed compared to how these sequences are usually handled, director James Mangold shared that it came with a big benefit.
As far as shooting the sequence itself went, Mangold noted there wasn’t anything “particularly unusual” about it, as Ford wore dots on his face to capture his expressions and “pretended that he was 35.” That said, the technology used to make the actor look like Indy adventuring a little over half a decade after the events of The Last Crusade. However, the technology utilized for this production stands out because Lucasfilm had a lot of footage of Ford in his 30s and 40s to consult, and the wait time to see how the de-aged Ford looked wasn’t that long. As Mangold explained to Total Film:
