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James Mangold has the Timothee Chalamet-led Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown dropping soon, and is still finishing up his script for an entry in the Star Wars universe. While out doing promotion for the Dylan movie he was asked about Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny.
The fifth Indiana Jones film was a long, long time coming and when it landed it left a big dent in Disney. It pulled in $384 million worldwide. Not great by modern standards. Even worse when you consider the production cost over $300 million. So what went wrong?
In an interview with Deadline, he said time was a factor, specifically the passing of it:
“You have a wonderful, brilliant actor who’s in his eighties. So I’m making a movie about this guy in his eighties, but his audience on one other level doesn’t want to confront their hero at that age. And I am like, I’m good with it. We made the movie. But the question is, how would anything have made the audience happy with that, other than having to start over again with a new guy?”
Mangold went on to say he still had a blast making the movie and that the message of Dial Of Destiny is:
“…that things come to an end, that’s part of life.”
The Indiana Jones franchise may now go down as one of Hollywood’s greatest missed opportunities. The time for multiple additional sequels was the 1990s, which was also the window for a James Bond-style recasting of the role if Ford did not return. It could still have been going today with the same kind of template and loose continuity of the Bond moves.
After all, Lucas originally pitched it to Spielberg after Spielberg was turned down for a Bond movie.
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