Indiana Jones Movie Franchise is an American media business based on the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton"Indiana" Jones, Jr., also a literary professor of archaeology. It started in 1981 together with all the movie Raiders of Lost Ark. A prequel,'' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, followed closely in 1984, and also a sequel, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, premiered in 1989. A fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, premiered in 2008 and has been the very last in the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. A fifth film is scheduled to be published in mid-2021. George Lucas made the show, and Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford have directed its films because of the title character. The Walt Disney Company has possessed the Indiana Jones intellectual-property since its purchase of Lucasfilm, the series' production business, at 2012. Paramount keeps the distribution rights into the first four films and tv show.