Guess the year Indy 5 will be set in

Face_Melt

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Raiders112390 said:
Let's see who ends up closest.
My guess is 1964.

1989 to 2008 was 19 years and the film reflected that. Last Crusade was in 1948 and Kingdom was 1967.

2008 to 2020 is 12 years so from Kingdom which was 1957 will be 1969.

So 1969.
 

Raiders90

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Face_Palm said:
1989 to 2008 was 19 years and the film reflected that. Last Crusade was in 1948 and Kingdom was 1967.

2008 to 2020 is 12 years so from Kingdom which was 1957 will be 1969.

So 1969.

That's only happened once though, and was a last minute decision.
As late as City of Gods, Indy 4 was going to be set in the early 50s. I think '57 was chosen because KOTCS was at the time toro ably felt to be the last Indy movie, but also the year it is set in is topical in a way to the events of the film: The Soviets launched the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, thus starting the space race.
LC was made 8 years after Raiders, but set just two years after. There's no hard set rule that the films in universe dates have to correspond with the passage of time between filming.
 

Raiders90

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Face_Palm said:
1989 to 2008 was 19 years and the film reflected that. Last Crusade was in 1948 and Kingdom was 1967.

2008 to 2020 is 12 years so from Kingdom which was 1957 will be 1969.

So 1969.

That's only happened once though, and was a last minute decision.
As late as City of Gods, Indy 4 was going to be set in the early 50s. I think '57 was chosen because KOTCS was at the time toro ably felt to be the last Indy movie, but also the year it is set in is topical in a way to the events of the film: The Soviets launched the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, thus starting the space race.
LC was made 8 years after Raiders, but set just two years after. There's no hard set rule that the films in universe dates have to correspond with the passage of time between filming.
 

TheFirebird1

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You know, I remember when Indy 5 was first announced (back in the far-off days of 2016), I naively asserted that the series shouldn't go past 1959—for some reason at that time the 60s felt like an era Indy just didn't belong in. But, after delay upon delay, I settled for 1962 as the perfect year for the franchise to close off on—that year, Dr. No, the first Bond film, was released, and with the connectivity of the franchises it somehow felt fitting for Indy to chronologically end as 007 began his own cinematic journey. For some reason I think that the latest they'll go is 1964, though I'm sure I might be proven wrong.
 

PilotJohnGrant

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1967, Indy bumps into a 20 something year old named George, then rushes past him. There's a pause. 'I just got a great idea!' The kid says.

Roll credits.
 
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