Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently appeared on Dagobah Dispatch, where she discussed the possibilities of continuing Indiana Jones after the final film with Harrison Ford, stating “if we were to do anything, it might be in series television down the road.”
“It’s Harrison’s last entry. That’s how we look at the Indy franchise. I mean, truthfully, right now, if we were to do anything, it might be in series television down the road, but we’re not doing anything to replace Indiana Jones. This is it. There are five movies that Harrison Ford did. And Harrison is so specific and so unique to creating this role. We just, Steven [Spielberg] agrees, we just wouldn’t do that.”
When addressing his departure from the franchise, the actor recently told Total Film, “This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I’ll play the character. I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film. I had been ambitious to do this film for ten years, and there finally came a time when we all committed to that. It was a joyous moment for me. I think it’s a rare situation that I find myself in. I’ve been able to deliver amazing films developed by [Steven Spielberg] and [George Lucas] over a 40-year period, and to end it not with a whimper, but a bang, has been my greatest ambition for this excursion.”
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is released on June 28th in the UK and Ireland, and June 30th in the rest of the world.
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