Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth film in the franchise, is set to have the longest runtime of all the Indy movies, at 153 minutes, beating the former champ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade by 25 minutes.
Just a month ago, according to producer Kathleen Kennedy, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” had a runtime of 142 minutes.
It seems as though 10 additional minutes were added to the runtime, possibly credits. It is now officially listed as 153 minutes. This makes it the longest Indiana Jones film ever. The former champ was 1989’s “The Last Crusade” at 128 minutes.
Defending the runtime of ‘Dial of Destiny’, Kennedy insisted that audiences are now getting used to longer movies thanks to our era of binge streaming:
“I will say that the early movies were shorter. They were under two hours and 15 minutes. And we talked about that quite a bit… But as you know, with runtime, it’s all about how you feel, right? So, if you’re sitting in a movie, and it feels long… The reason this is interesting is because long-form storytelling is something that we like in the streaming space. So, I think it might be that it’s some kind of carry over from that. But God knows, this year there were so many three hour-plus movies that I felt I wasn’t getting any work done, trying to see them!”
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets its World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival, tomorrow, May 18th, and is released on June 28th, 2023, in the UK and Ireland, and June 30th in the rest of the world.
