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Frank Marshall has confirmed that James Mangold will be directing Indiana Jones 5, with Steven Spielberg on board as a producer.

Speaking to Collider, Marshall, who has served as a creative voice on all four Indiana Jones films, reiterated that Spielberg won’t be back to direct Indy 5 despite being attached to the project for several years. Instead, Mangold will be saddling up and taking the reigns as the director of Indy’s next adventure.

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Confirming the news, Marshall praised the Logan filmmaker as the ideal candidate to helm the project because of “his love of the franchise.”

“I think [James Mangold] also has a relationship with Harrison [Ford]. It was all of the right pieces coming together, at the right time,” the famed producer explained, adding that, “Steven [Spielberg] is staying on as a producer, so we’ve got the best of everything.”

Marshall also revealed that scripting had only “just started” on the fifth instalment of the iconic film series, so very little is currently known about the plot. However, Ford previously hinted that the story would focus on “new developments” in Indy’s life, as well as seeing part of the character’s “history resolved.”

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Indiana Jones is currently scheduled for release on July 29, 2022. Unfortunately, that release date has already been pushed back multiple times, and the possibility of another delay is still present, as Marshall noted how the COVID-19 crisis is likely to impact production.

“We’re looking at the guidelines that are coming slowly, from the health experts and the studios and the different parts of the business, and we’re just trying to incorporate everything, so we can move forward and be safe,” he said. “It’s going to obviously slow things down, so we’re trying to adjust. You won’t see a lot of big crowd scenes, for example, for a while.”

For a list of recommendations on how best to help, and stay safe, during the coronavirus pandemic, please read our resource guide.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Footage of the reportedly cancelled campaign for 2018’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has seemingly surfaced online.

The footage was posted to Reddit by user /u/ForeverDexus on Sunday. The clip features an alleged early campaign mission where the player is given the task “Find the Aquilus CEO,” and fights through a monastery and a seafood restaurant. A lot of the models are unfinished, but the core structure of the mission remains, and appears to be modelled on the Black Ops 4 multiplayer map Seaside.

In a Kotaku report from 2018, it was said that Black Ops 4 supposedly had a campaign mode at one point, which was scrapped two years into development. It’s not clear what iteration of the game’s alleged campaign mode this footage pertains to, but Kotaku’s report states that it took multiple forms over the course of the game’s development.

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At one point the campaign mode is said to have incorporated an “ambitious two-versus-two multiplayer mechanic,” before it was scrapped. The team allegedly then pivoted to a more “traditional single-player story” (which may well be what the footage shows), but this was also cut and replaced with the series’ first Battle Royale mode, Blackout.

We didn’t think Black Ops 4 suffered too much for dropping a traditional single-player element, saying it would be “disappointing to some” but that it “gets along just fine without it” in our 8.5/10 review. In other Black Ops news, check out this recent report which suggests that 2020’s Call of Duty will be titled Black Ops Cold War.

IGN has reached out to Activision for comment.

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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Jason Bourne franchise producer Frank Marshall has revealed that he is on the lookout for a new filmmaker and story for a potential sixth film in the spy-thriller film series.

Collider reports that Marshall, who worked on all five previous movies in the blockbuster franchise, is keen to “restart” the film series with a new creative team helming the project.

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“I do like the Bourne series, and I do think that’s an opportunity for different filmmakers to come in now,” Marshall explained. “So, I’m hoping that we can find a new story for Bourne and a new filmmaker. We are looking.”

Doug Liman directed The Bourne Identity before the acclaimed action filmmaker Paul Greengrass took over for The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. He then returned for the series’ fifth entry, Jason Bourne, while the Jeremy Renner-led spin-off, The Bourne Legacy, was directed by Tony Gilroy.

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The fourth instalment, The Bourne Legacy, was set in the same universe as its predecessors but the 2012 action-thriller did not star Matt Damon in the lead role. Instead, the story centred around black-ops agent Aaron Cross, an original character played by Renner.

It is not yet known whether Damon or Renner would be returning for the prospective sixth film in the franchise, though Damon previously expressed a lack of interest in returning to the series without Greengrass in the director’s chair.

To read the decrypted Bourne franchise files, take a look at IGN’s History of Jason Bourne.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Leftover game files found in Mafia III Definitive Edition have provided what seems to be a glimpse into a cancelled Hangar 13 project, codenamed Rhapsody.

A YouTube video posted on Monday by user Sliderv2 provides a look at an unfinished map of Berlin, the supposed setting for a now-cancelled Hangar 13 project that was first uncovered by a 2018 Kotaku report.

The game, which was known internally as Rhapsody, was set in 1980s Berlin. As for the premise, the Kotaku report claims that “you’d play as a Russian Jew whose parents had been murdered in a Soviet labor camp. He’d be rescued by Americans, then recruited to join a spy organization called Rhapsody.”

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Rhapsody was compared to the movie Kingsman, but suffered a massive overhaul and the spy elements were reportedly scrapped early in the development. The project later became an “action game fueled by music.” The current status of that project is unknown – it’s not clear whether it’s still in development in some shape at Hangar 13.

Regardless, the video gives us an interesting look at the cancelled game’s setting, if you can get past the floating Mafia 3 protagonist which the camera is orbiting around. A lot of work had been done on the map, including an impressive model of the Berlin TV Tower.

Rhapsody may never see the light of day, but tidbits about what became of the scrapped project may arrive in the future as data miners delve into what Hangar 13 has left behind. Until then, check out a series of screenshots from the Mafia: Trilogy collection, which includes a look at the remade version of the original Mafia that Hangar 13 is set to release later this year on August 28.

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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Games are getting bigger and bigger these days, from Final Fantasy VII Remake with its two Blu-ray discs of data to Call of Duty Modern Warfare‘s whopping 175GB file size. Naughty Dog’s highly anticipated The Last of Us Part 2 will soon join the ranks of these massive games, as its file size is well over 100GB; in fact, it’s the largest PlayStation exclusive released to date, according to GamesRadar, surpassing the file sizes of God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and more. With The Last of Us Part 2 and other big games like Cyberpunk 2077 releasing this year, it’s a good idea to invest in an external hard drive that can instantly expand your PS4’s storage capacity, and luckily, there’s a great deal on one of our favorite game drives right now.

The WD 5TB My Passport portable external hard drive is on sale for 33% off at Amazon right now, selling for $100 instead of its usual $150. This gets you WD’s biggest hard drive with 5TB of extra game storage for less than even the 4TB normally sells for (right now, the 4TB version is also on sale for $100, so you’re getting a full extra GB for the same price). I recently purchased the 4TB version for $120 to have enough space for FFVII Remake, so I have to say I’m a little bitter to see the 5TB down to $100 today. Don’t make my mistake–snag this bad boy while it’s on sale if you’ve been needing to upgrade.

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Fortnite’s new Update 12.61 is out now, and as usual, there are no official patch notes to share from developer Epic Games. According to some voices in the community, including reliable leaker Lucas7Yoshi, the patch adds a smattering of new collectibles, including an emote for the Tootsie Slide, the dance that accompanies rapper/crooner Drake’s number 1 hit of the same name. New offers also include a new Cyclo skin and the Windshear item, which are both apparently related to the upcoming Doomsday event. Note that these items are not yet live on the item shop and could be subject to change.

In terms of new content, the patch introduces Storm the Agency challenges, which will let players unlock some new items, including a free pickaxe, wrap, and glider. The challenges themselves are fairly straightforward, and involve tracking down safe houses and spy bases. Additionally, it includes a few small hints regarding the game’s next big event, including a loading screen that depicts Midas looking at the Cyclo armor, along with a mysterious figure.

The patch also fixes a number of small bugs. Based on the game’s official Trello board, it addresses performance issues experienced by iOS users, numbers not changing on sports-themed outfits, and players being unable to refund the Dragacorn Glider. Some players are reporting that they still can’t refund the Dragacorn Glider, and Epic is investigating.

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I don’t think there’s ever been a more appropriate time to buy a new mattress. Almost everyone got a stimulus check, you can’t really go anywhere in the immediate future, so why not combine those two occurrences into the purchase of a new mattress? You’re going to be at home for a while anyway, why not stare at the ceiling in comfort?

Is this the sort of deal you expect to find at IGN? Probably not. But there are some big mattress sales happening right now, and I believe firmly in the importance of sleep. I do it every night, I’m such a fan.

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