Proving he’s still human, Harrison Ford injures shoulder on Indiana Jones 5 set
Not even de-aging technology can protect Indiana Jones’ shoulders
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Harrison Ford, 78, understandably injured his shoulder while rehearsing an action scene on the set of the upcoming Indiana Jones installment, Deadline reports. Although Ford’s appearance is central to filming a movie called *adjusts glasses* Indiana Jones 5, director James Mangold will shoot around his recovery for the time being. Meanwhile, Ford, who, unlike his character, can’t just put his hat over his face and take a nap to recover, will be out of commission for the next few weeks.
Disney released a statement on the situation:
“In the course of rehearsing for a fight scene, Harrison Ford sustained an injury involving his shoulder. Production will continue while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated, and the filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in the coming weeks.
It just goes to show that all the de-aging technology in the world isn’t going to stop the human body from being a complete and total failure. So while we wish Ford a speedy recovery, we can all go ahead and blame the human anatomy for endangering one of the most beloved stars on Earth. So please join us in a hardy “F U” to the human body and a double “F U” to the complex joints, like shoulders and knees (and don’t get me started on the back, one of the biggest bastards on Earth).
The fifth installment in the Indiana Jones series began production last month in England. It is the first in the series not directed by Steven Spielberg and the first since 2008's Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Instead, Logan and Ford V. Ferrari director James Mangold has taken the honor of injuring an elderly man in pursuit of another bite of the apple. He follows in the footsteps of J.J. Abrams, who oversaw Ford breaking his leg on the Millennium Falcon set while shooting Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Indiana Jones 5 is still set to roll like a big ol’ boulder into theaters on July 29, 2022. It stars Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson and Thomas Kretschmann. Get well soon, Mr. Ford! We look forward to finally seeing you and Mads in an Indiana Jones movie together.
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It’s pretty clear this is a cover story to explain an injury he sustained during his fifth or sixth plane crash. Seriously though, dude is nearly 80, he’s at risk of injury getting out of bed in the morning. I’m like half his age and I injured my own shoulder the other day throwing a paper ball too hard.
I’m 29 and I injured my shoulder a few weeks ago swerving around someone that decided they wanted to be in my lane despite the fact that I was already parallel with them.
Seriously though, dude is nearly 80, he’s at risk of injury getting out of bed in the morning.our 30 year old, otherwise healthy, friend broke their damn ankle hopping out of bed. I imagine a light breeze would be enough to give an 80 year old a bruise.
It’s fun getting to the age where sometimes things just hurt for no reason, and then get better on their own, whether or not you do anything.
What sucks is getting to the age where sometimes things just hurt for no reason, and they don’t get better, whether or not you do anything.
i finally got sent to PT for an elbow issue and i’m pretty sure they aren’t going to ever let me leave. we’ve moved on to one of my shoulders already and the guy has started asking me questions about my knees
He sounds like more of a nursery school teacher than a physical therapist.
“Well, at least I didn’t shoot my own tail, DAD.”
That entire scene is classic.“I remember my Charlemagne…”
“Well, they don’t come any closer than that!”BOOM
Friend of mine broke her ankle getting off of the toilet. That will never be forgotten.
I broke my leg sleepwalking. I was advised by my doctor to lie and say I was playing football or something.
dude is nearly 80, he’s at risk of injury getting out of bed in the morning Back in 1998 Paul Newman starred in a film called Twilight (no relation to the sparkly vampire books/films that came later).At the time, Mr. Newman was in/around 73 years of age. He played an older private detective and one is tempted to think this film was intended to be an unofficial third Harper film (the previous two being Harper and The Drowning Pool).Anyway, he played your typical hardnosed private eye looking into a case of murder and facing off against various villains… and poor Paul Newman looked so frail in his older years here in the film that each time he got involved in a fight or threatened someone far younger than him and/or got knocked down, you genuinely wondered if he’d be able to come back up.The film wasn’t terrible, but it was uncomfortable to watch Mr. Newman try to play this tough P.I. when clearly you were seeing a man who just didn’t look like he had the strength to do any of that anymore.I hope that this last Indy film -and I suspect it will be the finale- works better than watching Mr. Newman in Twilight.
I tore ligaments in my shoulder lightly tossing a carrot to a wild rabbit in the backyard. 8 months later it still hurts.
Sounds like elder abuse.Mangold: “Get out there and snap that whip!”
Ford: “But my programs are almost on!”
Mangold: “Oh, your shoulder hurts? Well, now your back’s gonna hurt because you just pulled landscaping duty. Anyone else’s shoulder hurt? Didn’t think so.”
“I want my stories!”
This actor was (slightly) younger than Harrison Ford when he played old man Indy.
oh no i hope he’s ok!
Breaking News…video has just been released
Fly? Yes! Land? No!
His performance was definitely the weirdest in “Apocalypse Now”.
I love him in that. He seems very disturbed by everything about Kurtz and anxious about Sheen’s drunkard ass. There’s no Cool Guy Ford at all.
CinemaTyler put out a great Youtube series late last year on the filming of Apocalypse Now, and one episode is entirely devoted to breaking down that whole scene. Apparently Ford had either just hopped off the plane and was exhausted or just nervous, and Coppola realized he had a chance to duplicate the basis for one of the better scenes in Godfather. Ford had completed Star Wars but it hadn’t been released yet at the time of shooting, so this was the last scene prior to superstardom.
Wow, that’s so cool!
I love him in that. He seems very disturbed by everything about Kurtz and anxious about Sheen’s drunkard ass. There’s no Cool Guy Ford at all.And he looks a bit dorky in glasses. Maybe he modeled the character after his buddy who happens to have his name on Ford’s right chest patch:
Shades of
Well Goddammit, Indy, where doesn’t it hurt?!
If Ford gets injured on set, isn’t that normally the sign of a good movie?
I ALREADY HURT AROUND THE CLOCK
Around it? But not actually on the shaft or ba…my bad
Smoke enough weed, and nothing will hurt. But of course, he knows that.
Maybe it wasn’t a great idea to cast a septuagenarian in the lead role of an action/adventure movie?
Maybe Samuel L. Jackson wasn’t available.
New movie: Captain Kirk (William Shatner, 90) is zapped back in time and teams up with Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford, a young 78) to battle Space Nazis.
As if we needed another reason why Ford shouldn’t continue to play Indiana Jones.
79 year old in a fight scene. I can only pray that it’s played for laughs.
Have you seen ‘The Boys from Brazil’?
I hope he didn’t injure his angry pointing arm
Or his wrist— otherwise, how can he perform the Hand Solo?
From the looks of these pictures it looks like he might be one of those ambidextrous angry pointers.
That is an amazing collage of film pics, and I never realized that was one of Ford’s signature moves. That it’s been incorporated into so many of the movies he’s been in is kinda unreal.
What’d he do? Leave his trailer?(Yes I purposefully did not read the article to make this joke. No I’m not sorry.)
When Ford broke his leg on Star Wars 7, JJ said that they used that downtime to polish the script.Jesus, if that was the polished version, I’d hate to see what the original draft was.
Why on earth is the almost octogenarian Jones involved in a fight scene?
Geriatric Jones and the Kids on His Lawn
Maybe this injury could lead to a better fight scene! Apparently the whole scene where Indy pulls his gun and shoots the swordsman in Raiders was improvised because Ford had digestive issues the day of filming and wasn’t up for doing the complicated sword-fighting planned.
This movie is just going to be a string of potential conflicts resolved by Indy lazily shooting someone.
about a year ago I underwent ankle surgery due to my own ineptness and idiocy. (have pins in my ankle, I keep wondering if I am going to set off metal detectors) Although they used some goo or whatever on the surgical site which technically made me a medical experiment and I got sent free Tim Hortons gift cards for 20 bucks every few months for doing a five minute phone survey. Not exactly worth it but not terrible either. Be a medical experiment, folks! you can get free donuts!
I’m reading this story and thinking only of one question:How did this project get insured?!
The risk of injury is high when you do action scenes with elderly actors. And they aren’t really that effective. Case in point.
Why the EVER-LOVING FUCK is there going to be a fifth movie?!?The fourth one wasn’t bad enough to kill the franchise, so they have to try again? What’s he fighting this time, the menace of Rock’n’Roll music?
Harrison Ford is 4 months older than Joe Biden.