INDIANA JONES AND THE SEQUEL OF DOOM?

The new Indiana Jones movie will be the first one in the action franchise not directed by Steven Spielberg.

He has decided to step down from the director’s chair which is going instead to Ford v Ferrari’s James Mangold.

Harrison Ford remains in the starring role for Indy 5, a much-delayed project which has undergone several script rewrites and is now due for release in 2022.

The poorly received fourth film, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, came out in 2008.

Spielberg will remain attached as a producer but reportedly wants to let another director make his mark on the much-loved movie series.

Mangold, whose previous work includes Logan, Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, has certainly proved himself a quality filmmaker time and again.

But there has not been a great deal of enthusiasm on social media for the director change with some fans fearing the archeologist hero won’t conjure the same magic without Hollywood legend Spielberg at the helm.

—Sandro Monetti