History Trivia / IndianaJones

** Ronald Lacey, who played Toht in ''Raiders'', appears as Heinrich Himmler during the Berlin book-burning in ''Last Crusade''.** Paul Freeman, who played Belloq in ''Raiders'', plays one of Indy's allies in the TV series, GreatWhiteHunter Frederick Selous.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/ParamountNetwork absolutely loves the series, frequently airing all four installments multiple times in daylong blocks, particularly on weekends. Its sister network Creator/{{Showtime}} is also rather fond of airing the franchise as well when they have the rights to it (the films currently shuffle between Showtime and Creator/ParamountPlus in the US).

** Ronald Lacey, who played Toht in ''Raiders'', appears as Heinrich Himmler during the Berlin book-burning in ''Last Crusade''.
** Sean Patrick Flanery, teenage Indy in the TV series, cameos as a patient in a mental asylum in ''Skull''.
** Paul Freeman, who played Belloq in ''Raiders'', plays one of Indy's allies in the TV series, GreatWhiteHunter Frederick Selous.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Indiana Jones Wiki]].

* TropeNamer:
** GenreThrowback: When combined with ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' and the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy.
** IndyEscape
** IndyHatRoll
** IndyPloy
** ItBelongsInAMuseum
** TempleOfDoom
** WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes

* RealLifeRelative: Isla Blair, Mrs. Julian Glover offscreen, played Mrs. Donovan in ''Last Crusade''.

** Creator/JohnRhysDavies as an Arab begs to be mentioned.

* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/HarrisonFord has made it no secret that Indiana Jones is his favorite role he's ever played, and takes the character and his adventures very seriously. It's telling that he was raring to go when it came to comiing back to the franchise in both 2008 ''and'' 2023 because he's so passionate about Indy.

** Another recurrent idea in these drafts was Indy being attacked by ''gorillas'' and then convincing them to turn against his enemies (they were still used in the Mexico prologue, with the enemy [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs using trained gorillas as sidekicks]]). In ''Skull'', Mutt directs an attack of South American monkeys against the Russians.

!!Fifth Film

* AllStarCast: In addition to the returning Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/JohnRhysDavies, we have Creator/PhoebeWallerBridge, Creator/TobyJones, Creator/BoydHolbrook, Creator/MadsMikkelsen and Creator/AntonioBanderas.
* BTeamSequel: Indy's last cinematic adventure will also be his first without Creator/StevenSpielberg, passing on director duties to Creator/JamesMangold. Spielberg stuck with Indy for a total of four films, compared to the one film he did for ''{{Franchise/Jaws}}'' and the two he did for ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. As of this film, all three of the major franchises he launched have passed into the hands of other directors.
* ChannelHop: Distribution of the fifth movie goes from Creator/{{Paramount}} to Creator/{{Disney}} with the latter's purchase of Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} in 2012, which granted them the rights to the IP (albiet not distribution of the other four films, which currently remain at Paramount).
* MilestoneCelebration: It was scheduled for release in 2021, for the fortieth anniversary of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''; the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic delayed filming for a year (further changes to Disney's schedule led to it being pushed back ''again'' to 2023).
* ProductionPosse: Director Creator/JamesMangold brought on his favoured cinematographer Phedon Papamichael to shoot the film, and the script was co-written by brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, with whom Mangold had previously worked with on ''Film/FordvFerrari''.
* RefittedForSequel: After ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Creator/StevenSpielberg believed that he would be relegated to producer of any future ''Indiana Jones'' films after "maturing as a filmmaker" with the original trilogy. He ultimately directed ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' and was open to direct another sequel, but ultimately, he stepped down from directing the fifth film and chose to executive produce it.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/GeorgeLucas wanted to produce a fifth film as far back as 2008 after the release of ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''. He had some CreativeDifferences with Creator/StevenSpielberg, and nothing moved forward. Creator/{{Disney}} bought Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} in 2012, Creator/KathleenKennedy confirmed that the new film would happen, and Disney formally announced the project for a 2019 release in 2016. Further delays due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic pushed its filming forward, with a release now set for 2023.
* SequelGap: To be released 15 years after the previous installment.
* TroubledProduction: Filming was delayed for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Then Creator/HarrisonFord suffered a shoulder injury while rehearsing a fight scene, delaying the shooting for a few weeks.

* AllStarCast: In addition to the returning Creator/HarrisonFord, we have Creator/PhoebeWallerBridge, Creator/TobyJones, Creator/BoydHolbrook, Creator/MadsMikkelsen, and Creator/AntonioBanderas.

** The NiceHat worn by Dr. Jones has been pretty much consistently popular since [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the first movie]] was released and is still being sold in costume shops as well as hat stores. The exact model is a high-crowned [[http://www.indygear.com/igfedora.html Herbert Johnson fedora]], if you're interested. Australian hatmakers Akubra (of the eponymous slouch hat) also have a replica model they refer to as “The Adventurer”.

* AllStarCast: In addition to the returning Ford, we have Creator/PhoebeWallerBridge, Creator/TobyJones, Creator/BoydHolbrook, Creator/MadsMikkelsen, and Creator/AntonioBanderas.

* BTeamSequel: Indy's last cinematic adventure will also be his first without Creator/StevenSpielberg, passing on director duties to Creator/JamesMangold. As of this film, all three of the major franchises personally launched by Spielberg have passed into the hands of other directors. However, he stuck with Indy for a total of four films, compared to only one for ''{{Franchise/Jaws}}'' and two for ''Franchise/JurassicPark''.

* BTeamSequel: Indy's last cinematic adventure will also be his first without Creator/StevenSpielberg, passing on director duties to Creator/JamesMangold.

* MilestoneCelebration: It was scheduled for release in 2021, for the fortieth anniversary of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''; the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic delayed filming for a year.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/GeorgeLucas wanted to produce a fifth film as far back as 2008 after the release of ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''. He had some CreativeDifferences with Creator/StevenSpielberg, and nothing moved forward. Creator/{{Disney}} bought Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} in 2012, Creator/KathleenKennedy confirmed that the new film would happen, and Disney formally announced the project for a 2019 release in 2016. Further delays due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic pushed its filming forward, with a release now set for 2022.

** GenreThrowback: When combined with ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' and the original ''StarWars'' trilogy.