Harrison Ford Unveils New 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' Scene At CinemaCon

"Why did it have to be snakes?" actor Harrison Ford asked during Lucasfilm's presentation for "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" on Wednesday at the annual CinemaCon event.

The latest movie featuring the whip-slinging archaeologist is the fifth in the franchise, following 1981's “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” 1984’s “Temple of Doom,” 1989’s “Last Crusade,” and 2008’s “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, is taking place inside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from April 24 through April 27. On Wednesday, Lucasfilm debuted a brand new action sequence from "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," which also stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore, and Mads Mikkelsen.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the 80-year-old actor actually began the presentation with a pre-recorded message. “Hello, CinemaCon,” the "Star Wars" alum began, adding that “playing Indiana Jones all these years has meant the world to me.” He then went on to describe the various details which go into a movie, including snakes.

“Why did it have to be snakes?” Ford asked, repeating his iconic line from "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Ford also thanked the theater owners for their support and shared how the entire team that worked on the James Mangold-directed film is "thrilled" to debut the new movie on the "biggest and best screens."

Disney’s head of theatrical distribution, Tony Chambers, added, “We are cranking up to 11 with a high-stakes adventure.” He also praised Mangold’s “amazing job” of directing, calling the new film “a big-screen, must-see movie event.”

The new action scene was only a few minutes long, but it did give fans of the decades-running franchise a taste of what's to come. The thrilling chase scene featured Indiana Jones behind the wheel of a mini motorized car as he was chased down narrow streets. He and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's characters are both trying to evade the "bad guys," who are hot on their trails.

Waller-Bridge really gives her all in this sequence as Ford swerves and careens his way around various obstacles. She punches out bad guys, jumps cars, and even can be seen hanging out of the back of a car window, all while she bickers with Indiana Jones about the titular "dial of destiny."

This is not the only time that new footage of the movie has been released ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France. At the Star Wars Celebration event held earlier this month in London, audiences were treated to a new trailer and got an opportunity to see six minutes of the film.

In a new interview with Total Film Magazine, director James Mangold revealed that the scene containing a de-aged Harrison Ford is about 25 minutes long. Mangold said that, despite his age, Ford was “incredibly gifted and agile” while filming those scenes, which made it easy for him to “pretend that he was 35.” However, Mangold also gave credit to the new VFX technology that was created specifically for this film to de-age Ford.

“But the technology involved is a whole other thing,” Mangold told the magazine. “We had hundreds of hours of footage of him in close-ups, in mediums, in wides, in every kind of lighting, night and day. I could shoot Harrison on a Monday as, you know, a 79-year-old playing a 35-year-old, and I could see dailies by Wednesday with his head already replaced.”

“It wasn’t a year of effort to get to a first pass,” Mangold continued. “It was an incredible technology, and, in many ways, I just didn’t think about it. I just focused on shooting what’s [approximately] a 25-minute opening extravaganza that was my chance to just let it rip. The goal was to give the audience a full-bodied taste of what they missed so much. Because then when the movie lands in 1969, they’re going to have to make an adjustment to what it is now, which is different from what it was.”

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" will open in theaters on June 30.