Swanky Premiere for Indiana Jones

Trading off exciting adventure of trying to evade poison darts and being flattened by a giant boulder, our beloved globe-trotting story- bound archaeologist will be doging off the flashbulbs of waiting paparazzi along the Croisette instead.

According to Variety Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will celebrate its world debut at the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 18.

After so many years of hiatus the adventure film’s fourth installment in the ceaselessly popular big-screen series will then be released into movie houses worldwide on May 22.

From the looks of things the newly released teaser trailer for Crystal Skull, the only glamour and brilliance Indy is looking for this time around is a journey down memory lane—very different from Raiders of the Lost Ark, when he “protected the power of the divine,” Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, or during the time when our adventure-crazy Indy “saved the cradle of civilization,” or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, during the time that he “triumphed over the armies of evil.”

Director Steven Spielberg, producer George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett are anticipated to gear up and dust off in their best formal and splash the red carpet for the enthusiastically anticipated premiere, the first Indiana Jones motion picture in 19 years.

Crystal Skull will not in fact be contending, though, for Cannes’ major honor, the Golden Palm. It is not going to be a part of the contest, basically, its main purpose is to serve as the festival’s distinct Hollywood summer blockbuster (subsequent to the likes of The Matrix Reloaded and Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) along with the more inventive offerings that customarily gets attention at the Palais along the French Riviera.

Cannes coordinators have yet to verify the screening, as they are still currently running on the arrangement for the May 14–25 shindig, but a certified announcement should be approaching sometime in April. As soon as the programmers get a look at the completed film, which Spielberg is actively polishing up and whose screenplay has been more charily watched over than the Holy Grail.

Spielberg last attended Cannes was way back in 1982, for the opening of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, which went on to turn out to be one of the highest-grossing movies in the history

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