In relation to cinematic treasures, there are few extra worthwhile than Indiana Jones. For many years, Harrison Ford’s archaeologist has been the last word film hero: a Nazi-bashing historical past buff with a style for journey, an enormous data of historical relics, and actual human vulnerability. Even the very picture of Indiana Jones – fedora on his head, whip stowed on his hip – has turn into shorthand for old-school, rip-roaring, blockbuster thrills. Ever since 2008’s Kingdom Of The Crystal Cranium, Indy has been absent from our screens, retiring to the nice film vault (or, maybe, the sprawling Raiders warehouse). But when the Indiana Jones films have taught us something, it’s that an actual treasure by no means stays buried – and he’s not able to belong in a museum simply but. In 2023, the best motion hero of all time will return for much more fortune and glory. Maintain on to your potatoes, everybody: Indiana Jones is again.

In a serious world-exclusive, the brand new difficulty of Empire presents your first dive into the fifth (and still-untitled) Indiana Jones movie – bringing again Ford (and his fedora), however teaming him with a brand new director in James Mangold, offering him with a contemporary batch of allies and enemies, and pitching him into an entire completely different period of historical past. Inside, you’ll discover a very first have a look at what the top-secret movie has in retailer, with a deluge of unique photos – in addition to world-first interviews with stars Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Shaunette Renée Wilson and Boyd Holbrook, director James Mangold, writers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, and producers Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel. The journey is just simply starting – get able to uncover essentially the most thrilling film of 2023.

This month’s newsstand cowl reveals the long-awaited return of Indiana Jones himself, gearing up for extra motion.

And this month’s subscriber cowl finds Indy in Nineteen Sixties-era New York Metropolis, bathed in golden mild, a picture impressed by the movie and illustrated solely for Empire by Sam Hadley.

All that, and this difficulty uncovers loads of different cinematic jewels too – with an enormous 2023 preview that includes contemporary appears to be like on the most anticipated films of the subsequent 12 months. From Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III, to Spider-Man: Throughout The Spider-Verse and John Wick 4, Pixar’s Elemental, Taika Waititi’s Subsequent Aim Wins, and Mission: Unattainable – Lifeless Reckoning Half 1, it’s full of must-see releases to mark in your calendar. Plus, we pose Hollywood’s burning inquiries to the one and solely James Cameron, discuss cinematic recollections with Empire Of Gentle director Sam Mendes, voyage into the debauched historical past of Hollywood with Babylon, and go on a musical odyssey with Cate Blanchett, spending a day with the star at Abbey Highway Studios to speak TÁR. Just like the Ark Of The Covenant, this difficulty is an actual face-melter. However, in a great way.

Discover Empire’s world-exclusive Indiana Jones 5 difficulty on newsstands from Thursday 24 November – or pre-order a duplicate on-line right here now. The fifth Indiana Jones movie involves UK cinemas on 30 June 2023.