The fifth installment of the saga marks Harrison Ford’s farewell to one of his most iconic characters.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate, the archaeologist’s fifth installment, is Harrison Ford’s farewell to the character. Directed by James Mangold, who takes over from Steven Spielberg, the film has a happy ending for the protagonist, who is divorcing his wife Marion Ravenwood.
Karen Allen, who has given life to the character in the saga, appears at the end of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate to arrange her marriage to Indy. The actress debuted as the character in the first installment Raiders of the Lost Ark and returned in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In the fourth film in the franchise, fans found out that she and the leading man had a son named Henry ‘Mutt’ Walton Jones III. Shia LaBeouf played him, but in this latest installment it’s revealed that he was killed in the war and that broke up Indy’s marriage.
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Originally, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate was going to be a different story with Allen having more of a role. However, things changed a lot when Mangold took the reins. The appearance of the actress has been reduced to a cameo and the interpreter has acknowledged being disappointed.
“When Steven was going to direct it, I didn’t get a chance to read any of the scripts, but I knew that Marion was very invested in the story at that juncture,” Allen tells THR. “So, I knew that James hired new writers and that there was going to be a new approach with a new director and new writers, but I really went into the unknown.”
Lucasfilm Karen Allen as Marion in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and ‘Reign of the Crystal Skull’.
It was when Mangold changed the original story that Allen went from being a key character in the film to the opposite:
The next thing I know, I was reading the script that tells the story of The Dial of Fate, and of course I was disappointed.
As he concludes: “I thought it would be a big part of the movie and that was not the direction they went in. I think they had some issues with the story because Shia LaBeouf wasn’t coming back and they decided to create this story that Mutt had been killed in the war and that it drove a wedge between Marino and Indy. You could have struck me down with a feather when I read it. But I was so glad they got back together at the end.”
Although, as Allen points out, LaBeouf seemed like a clear choice to continue the Indiana Jones story, the actor has been the subject of several controversies in recent years. In 2013 he was accused of plagiarizing the story of one of his shorts. In 2017 he was arrested for disorderly conduct, obstruction and intoxication. In 2020, his ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs denounced him for physical and emotional abuse and the actor admitted what happened in 2022.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate follows Indy on his last day as an archeology professor. The action has already left him behind a long time ago, but the reappearance of his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) forces him to return to the adventure. Together they search for the Dial of Fate, a contraption capable of traveling through time that the Nazos led by Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) are after.
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2023-07-07 16:44:52
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