{"id":595472,"date":"2026-08-16T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:54:15","slug":"harrison-ford-returning-as-indiana-jones-for-animal-kingdom-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595472\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Ford returning as Indiana Jones for Animal Kingdom ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 16 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Disney\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Disney\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Disney<\/a> announced this weekend that film legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Harrison_Ford\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Harrison Ford\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harrison Ford<\/a> is returning as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Indiana_Jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Indiana Jones\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indiana Jones<\/a> for a new ride in Florida&#8217;s Animal Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased to share that for the first time ever, I&#8217;m the actual model for the animatronic &#8212; fear of snakes included,&#8221; Ford said in a video posted on social media Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited for you to see his next epic adventure and I&#8217;m coming to Walt Disney World soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The name of the attraction is Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent.<\/p>\n<p>It will be located in the park&#8217;s former Dinoland U.S.A. section.<\/p>\n<p>No opening date has been announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>Ford, 84, has played the intrepid archaeologist in 1981&#8217;s Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984&#8217;s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1989&#8217;s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 2008&#8217;s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and 2023&#8217;s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.\n<\/p>\n<p>Indiana Jones is also represented with a live stunt show at WDW&#8217;s Epcot theme park.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ford&#8217;s other famous franchise, Star Wars, has several rides and shows at WDW&#8217;s Hollywood Studios. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 16 (UPI) &#8212; Disney announced this weekend that film legend Harrison Ford is returning as Indiana Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9618,93,18942,61,40938,60,270,5199],"class_list":["post-595472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-harrison-ford","tag-ie","tag-indiana-jones","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-snakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}