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EVERY ISSUETHE SMARTER MOVIE MAGAZINEI had a VHS of Raiders of the Lost Ark as a kid and my brother and I watched and rewatched it until it was snowy and no amount of ‘tracking’ could fix the baggy tape. Indiana Jones was our absolute hero and remains so to this day. Jones represents the ultimate escape. So it’s a pleasure to put Indy’s final adventure on the cover and delve into a treasure trove of insight into the crafting of a movie worthy of the iconic actor and character in Dial of Destiny. If you’re jones-ing for other dopamine hits we’ve got you covered with Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Little Mermaid, Transformers, Sigourney Weaver, the unique mind of Ari Aster… Honestly, this issue is a treasure trove that…1 min

EVERY ISSUECALL SHEET THIS ISSUE’S EXTRASDEPUTY EDITORMATT MAYTUM@MATTMAYTUMInterviewing Harrison Ford became even more nerve-shredding when he called at short notice while I was at a train station. A rare movie star who calls without a PR person patching him through.NEWS EDITORJORDAN FARLEY@JORDANFARLEYHad a blast at Star Wars Celebration in London. You can read about everything I saw on p7, but for now here were my three favourite costumes: 1) Bad Lip Reading Yoda 2) Darth Jar Jar 3) George LucasONLINE ENTERTAINMENT WRITEREMILY GARBUTT@EMILYLGARBUTTNicholas Hoult talked me through all the different bugs he ate in Renfield during our chat for the Inside Total Film podcast. You can buy them on Amazon, apparently.REVIEWS EDITORMATTHEW LEYLAND@TOTALFILMLooking forward to Samara Weaving’s big fight scenes in Azrael. There will be mud, she says - in fact, it could be messier…1 min

TEASERSGALAXY FEST@JORDANFARLEYTHREE NEW MOVIESDespite thriving on streaming, Star Wars is experiencing a fallow period on the big screen. All that is set to change with three freshly announced movies delving into the past, present and future of a new ‘mythological timeline’.First up (chronologically, anyway): James Mangold will direct a movie exploring the ‘dawn of the Jedi’. Set 25,000 years before the original trilogy it will ‘tell the tale of the first Jedi to wield the Force’, according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. For Mangold the idea was to resurrect a long-dormant genre, and give it a Star Wars twist. ‘I thought about the biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments,’ Mangold said. ‘Where did the Force come from? When did we discover it? When did we know how to use it?’Another new…5 min

TEASERSHOT RIGHT NOWI don’t get scared very easily,’ said Jenna Ortega on her Saturday Night Live gig. Good thing, because she is tackling roles that might leave other actors petrified. After following Christina Ricci in Tim Burton’s Netflix series Wednesday, Ortega is now rumoured to be - sort of - following in Winona Ryder’s boot-steps for Burton’s long-wanted Beetlejuice follow-up.According to the trades, Ortega may play the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia Deetz, the ‘strange and unusual’ goth girl to Michael Keaton’s boggle-eyed bio-exorcist. You think she’s qualified? Affirmative: the casting couldn’t be more perfect than, well, Ortega’s emphatic ownership of Wednesday Addams, a gone-viral hit three decades after Ricci wrote the rulebook on dead-eyed insouciance.For Ortega, the rumours confirm that she’s practically a Ryder-grade Gen-Z icon already. Raised in California, Ortega decided…2 min

TEASERSYOU TALKIN’ TO ME?You talkin’ to me?[laughs] I think so. Is this real? Are you in a mask of some sort? No? Well, I guess I’m talking to you, then.Do you have an off switch?Yeah. I’m surprised I have an ‘on’ switch! I’m off all the time! [Laughs] But they call ‘action’ and I’m on, I guess. I pull it out the bag. The show must go on!You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?Yeah. I’m the luckiest punk alive. My 10-year-old self would be like, ‘Wow!’ When I was that age I thought it would be amazing to do acting as a job. And now I’m in the company of my heroes. It’s wild.How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in…4 min

Issue May 2023 - Total Film (2024)

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