Disney have debuted the trailers for the third Guardians of the Galaxy and fifth Indiana Jones movies at Brazil’s Comic Con Experience (CCXP).
Set to Spacehog’s “In the Meantime,” Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3‘s trailer opens with the team – now wearing their uniforms from the Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning run – arriving on Counter-Earth, a facsimile of our world populated by the New Men, animals that have been transformed by the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji) into humanoids. We see the creation of Rocket, who’s then shown swearing to stop running from his creator, and having an emotional reunion with his old flame, Lylla the otter.
Will Poulter is briefly introduced as Adam Warlock, battling Nebula, while the Evolutionary himself is glimpsed running tests on a new species in a grotesque, organic space station, which the Guardians don color-coded spacesuits to traverse. We also see the return of Gamora, the Abilisk from Vol. 2‘s opening, and Drax’s struggle with not killing people, plus the gang apparently being incarcerated in a white facility (where they’re all wearing orange jumpsuits.) Despite being bookended by comic scenes, the emphasis is on this being a bittersweet last hurrah, where everyone might not make it out alive.
With director James Gunn having been named the co-CEO of DC Studios, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will close the book on his vision of the Cosmic Marvel Universe on May 5, 2023.
The trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, James Mangold’s send off for Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas’s beloved professor of archaeology, set in 1969, opens with dialogue from Sallah (John Rhys-Davies, returning to the role for the first time since 1989), bemoaning how he and Indy don’t get up to exciting adventures anymore. We’re introduced to Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Indy’s goddaughter Helena, and Mads Mikkelsen as Voller, an ex-Nazi working for NASA, whom we also see in a flashback to 1944, featuring a digitally deaged Ford. (Toby Jones appears in this sequence as Basil, a man Indy presumably had to rescue from the Third Reich.)
Along with a train fight in ’44, we’re shown an underwater archaeology sequence, a car chase in the Middle East, Indy and Helena exploring an underground temple, and a ticker-tape parade in New York, where Dr. Jones flees Boyd Holbrook’s henchman Klaber on horseback, eventually finding galloping across the city’s subway. Indy reflects on how his encounters with the supernatural have shaped his faith (or lack thereof), before the trailer concludes with him realizing he’s brought a whip to a gunfight. No sign of the Dial of Destiny itself, though Indiana Jones movies don’t often make a habit of featuring their MacGuffins in promotional material.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which will also reportedly mark John Williams’s final film score, releases in theaters June 30, 2023.
