Indiana Jones set for more adventures

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and final installment of the Hollywood blockbuster franchise, will hit screens in China on Friday, following its premiere in Shanghai and Beijing earlier this week.

The new cinematic adventure, directed by James Mangold, stars 80-year-old Harrison Ford as an archaeologist who races against time to get a magic dial that is able to travel through time to change the course of history.

The film premiered in Shanghai on Monday at Disneyland and in Beijing on Tuesday.

Chinese actor Pan Yueming dubbed the young Indiana Jones. Pan went to the Shanghai premiere and shared some interesting stories while dubbing the archeologist at a younger age.

Pan gained his popularity by his role as an experienced explorer with knowledge of tombs and relics in a popular Chinese franchise Candle in the Tomb, a somewhat Chinese equivalent to Indiana Jones.

Writer Xu Lei, known by his penname Nanpai Sanshu, one of the highest-paid novelists in China, said at the Shanghai premiere that Indiana Jones is one of the stories that inspired him to finish his best-selling franchise The Grave Robbers' Chronicles.

Writer Ma Boyong said that the Hollywood franchise can satisfy a child's imagination of the world as well as his willingness to explore the world.