Harrison Ford, willing to tempt fate, says Dial Of Destiny is the last time he’ll play Indiana Jones
Another iconic Harrison Ford character will soon be retiring
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Much like Ben Affleck during his tenure as Batman, Harrison Ford has spent the last few years doing everything he can to avoid ever having to play any of his iconic characters ever again—whether that means dying onscreen as Han Solo or putting a perfectly poignant period at the end of Rick Deckard’s story—and now he’s doing it again for Indiana Jones. In fact, regarding director James Mangold’s Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, Ford insists that this will be the last time he ever plays the whip-swinging, hat-wearing archeologist… and it might even be the last time Indiana Jones ever appears on film.
Now, we’ve heard that sort of thing before, and Han Solo did come back in The Rise Skywalker (even if it was just as a memory-ghost, not a real ghost like all of those times Obi-Wan came back), so it might be wise for Ford to leave himself a little wiggle room, but no! Speaking with Total Film, Ford claimed that Dial Of Destiny will be the last film in the Indiana Jones series, that it will be the last time he plays Indiana Jones, and that it will probably be the last time anyone ever sees Indiana Jones in a movie.
That’s bold, considering Indy is now owned by Disney, a company that loves its intellectual property so much that it’s probably just a few years away from doing a traditional cartoon adaptation of the Lion King remake, but Ford at least seems committed to this. He even says that, should Disney’s planned Indiana Jones TV show actually happen, he “will not be involved.” You hear that? He’s done!
Now Ford just needs to star in a years-later legacy sequel to The Fugitive so he can kill off Richard Kimble and he’ll never need to act again. He can just crash airplanes in peace, like he always dreamed.
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Well that’s going to make the handoff to Chris Pratt significantly more awkward
The Fugitive 2: Electric Boogaloo“This time Richard Kimble really did do it!”
Turns out he was a one armed man the whole time.
“It was a one armed man! I swear!”“Alright gramps, its nap time.”
The arm is the friend we made along the way.
In the original series I believe it actually turned out that the one armed man didn’t do it but he witnessed who did.
No, he did it but he was blackmailing the witness to the crime who could have exonerated Kimble immediately. He was blackmailing the witness for … witnessing the murder he committed. Not sure how that was supposed to work.
It was the 60’s, things were different then. In the 70’s Kimble kept on Hulking out.
There already was a Fugitive 2.It ended with an older Thanos killing Iron Man.
I thought you were going to reference the fairly mediocre “U.S. Marshals”.
I’ve seen U.S. Marshals probably more than anything not by Pixar, because I worked at the campus computer store in college and they had a demo Mac that was playing that movie on a loop for some reason. I didn’t see all of the movie in a row, but I definitely saw every scene at least fifty times.
Perhaps I actually did?
The Fugitive 2099“The three armed cyborg killed me wife!!”
If only this franchise included a younger character who would be perfectly positioned to take over the main hero role decades later, whose actor just made a spectacular return to the public conciousness that made him universally beloved and an unstoppable awards darling that guarantees the success of whatever he does next. But what are the odds of that?
*Shia LaBeouf enters the chat*
Instead, River died.
Yet another reminder that the loss of River Phoenix was so tragic.He would have been accepted to run with the franchise.Shia was given a crappy character and writing, but he didn’t exactly endear himself to the fanbase either.
I’ll give you a hint. He’s not tall. He’s not square…I kept running into TOD on tv this weekend. The kid was great through and through. It makes so much sense to me that he be involved in a big way.
Took me a minute
Are you thinking of someone white, male and American, or someone who is unacceptable to the CHUDs, and who will be branded ‘a risk’ at casting time?
… Somehow, Indy returned.
Is that what he said after the fourth one?
Is Mutt going to run him through with the Spear of Destiny?
The TV show was never going to be about Indy. The rumor was that it would follow the adventures of Abner Ravenwood, possibly with a young Marion in tow. I suppose it could have allowed for an appearance by Jones, either as a young trainee of Abner’s or with Harrison Ford in the intro flashing back to the main story, but it’s moot because it was announced about a month ago that Disney had decided not to follow through with making it.
It’s a shame. That idea has a great deal of potential, and a female lead would likely have very impressive in that series.
i guarantee you we see another indiana jones something in less time than it’s been since crystal skull.
Harrison Ford is too busy for this shit, he’s got a plane to crash.
The dude’s in his 80s. He’s doing lots of things for the last time…
Guy is in his 80s. This is kind of a ‘no shit Sherlock’ thing.
Sorry Harrison, the nostalgia machine demands its offering of flesh.
There’s no way that there isn’t another Indiana Jones movie of some kind. Even if Dial of Destiny bombs, unless Disney has a sudden change of
business model and moves out of the IP mining business, there will be
another Indiana Jones movie eventually.Probably after Harrison Ford is dead tho. Recasting the character while Ford is still alive would be fraught. Even though he’s not the only person to play Indiana Jones, it would be a big ordeal and cause a lot of drama.