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Sean Connery as Dr Henry Jones and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones 

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have recently finalized the script for the new Indiana Jones. It was reported that the filming will start in 2007 with Harrison Ford as the main cast again and Steven Spielberg will be directing this new movie. Harrison Ford said that he is still fit for the role. This will be the forth Indiana Jones series. The previous ones are:

– Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
– Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
– Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Indiana Jones series is about the heroic fictional archeologist Indiana Jones’s adventures. Potrayed by Harrison Ford, Professor Indy is noted for his trademark bullwhip, his fedora hat, and his extreme fear of snakes. His dad, Dr Henry Jones Sr (played by Sean Connery) was also a professor. His father often calls him Junior. He has accompanied his father on his travels around Europe where he learns to speak,read and write in various languages includes French,German,Italian,Spanish,Russia,Greek,Chinese, apart form English.

There was also the television series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, aired from 1992 to 1996, with the 17-year-old Indy played by Sean Patrick Flanery, 93-year-old Indy by George Hall, and 10-year-old Indy by Corey Carrier. This inspired a number of made-for-TV and made-for-video movies featuring Flanery as young Indy. One of the last Young Indiana Jones TV movies featured a cameo appearance by Harrison Ford, reprising the role of Indy as a man in his 50s. The show ran for 44 episodes, with each pairing of episodes forming a feature-length TV film. The stories spanned from Indy’s childhood travels with his father (who was on, what seemed, one continuous Medieval studies lecture tour) to the solo journeys of his youth and even into World War I. Every episode began with a 93-year-old Indy, a grey-haired professor, talking about one of his old childhood adventures.