Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold has spoken about his disappointment with how his Indiana Jones film was received.
“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?”
He says that Ford, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy came to him at a time when A Complete Unknown was frozen because of Covid and Chalamet was off making the Dune movies for Denis Villeneuve. “And then here come lifelong heroes from my childhood into my life going, ‘We have something for you to work on.’ It was a “joyous experience, but it hurt,” he admits, “in the sense that I really love Harrison and I wanted audiences to love him as he was and to accept that that’s part of what the movie has to say—that things come to an end, that’s part of life.”
Read the interview in full here. Stream Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on Disney+ and/or buy the film on 4K UHD, Blu-Ray, and DVD from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
