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from ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’. If you haven’t seen the movie or don’t want to know who appears at the end, don’t read on.
‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’ is not doing very well at the box office. Although the public has received it somewhat better than the critics, the truth is that Harrison Ford’s farewell as the most iconic archaeologist in cinema will be impossible to escape the label of disappointment. And as if the collection and the division of opinions were not enough, now one of the actresses adds a little more discontent to that negative halo that has been created around the film.
If you have not seen the fifth installment of ‘Indiana Jones’ and do not want to find out about the end, we recommend that you do not continue reading from here. It will not be because we have not warned.
At the end of ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’, Indiana Jones and Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) travel to the past, specifically to the year 287 BC, after a miscalculation by the villain, Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), and Indy decides stay there instead of going back to the present (i.e. 1969) with the others. However, at the last moment, Helena punches him unconscious and takes him back to his time, where she discovers that he has a reason to move on instead of dwelling on the past: his family. . The new (Helena, Teddy) and the old, represented by Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) and the return of his great love, Marion Ravenwood.
Karen Allen returns in the final scene of ‘The Dial of Fate’ to give Indy his happy ending and bring them together for good, 42 years after they met in ‘Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark’. Allen’s appearance is quite a nostalgic treat for fans of the saga and a perfect emotional closure, but it turns out that Marion was originally going to have a much bigger role in the film.
It was the actress herself who confirmed it in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, where he also explains why they decided to cut his role. According to Allen, the initial plan, when Steven Spielberg was still involved with the project as director, was for “Indiana Jones 5” to be a story about Indy and Marion. But when James Mangold took over the reins of the film, the difficulty of rewriting the story without Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) meant that his mother, Marion, also ended up narratively displaced.
“When Steve [Spielberg] was going to direct the film, I didn’t have the opportunity to read any of the scripts, although I know that Marion had a lot more presence in the story at that time, “reveals Allen. “I knew that James [Mangold] I had hired new writers and they were going to give a whole new approach to the film, but in reality I was entering the unknown.” “The next thing I remember is reading the script of [‘El Dial del Destino’] and of course I was disappointed,” she continues. “I thought I was going to have a bigger role in the movie, but that just wasn’t the direction they decided to go.”
The reason: Shia LaBeouf
Next, the actress attributes the decision to Shia LaBeouf’s departure from the saga, after being introduced in ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ as the heir to Indy’s whip. After the premiere of the fourth installment, the actor’s reputation deteriorated due to constant problems with the law and stories about how difficult it was to work with him. Years later, LaBeouf was accused of sexual assault and emotional abuse by his ex-girlfriend, the singer FKA Twigs, so if his return as a Mutt was already rather unlikely, that ended up definitively sealing his fate.
In ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’ it is revealed that Mutt has died and this caused Indy and Marion to drift apart, which leaves her out of Doctor Jones’ latest adventure, save for her brief return at the end. Allen explains it like this:
“I think they ran into some trouble resolving the story because Shia LaBeouf wasn’t coming back, so they decided to create a story where Mutt had been killed in the war and that put a wall between Marion and Indy. Well, I was I was shocked when I read it. But I was really glad they got back together at the end.”
A week after the premiere, Disney has published an official poster dedicated to Marion Ravenwood. ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’ is currently in theaters.
2023-07-08 03:21:15
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