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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate will be Harrison Ford’s last film as the most famous archaeologist in cinema history, but the project will be the first without Steven Spielberg for the saga.
As You Know It is, in fact, the fifth feature film dedicated to Henry Jones Jr. and produced by Lucasfilm. First time it won’t be signed by Spielbergwho instead made all four Indiana Jones films ever released, but by the hugely successful James Mangold, who has finally reached his most fertile moment in recent years after amassing a series of great successes with both critics and the public. his career (the director has three projects already in development: a biopic on Bob Dylan with Timothée Chalamet, swamp Thing for dc studios Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi Always for Lucasfilm/Disney). But the question for fans is justified: because spielberg didn’t direct Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate,
There has been no official response When asked why Spielberg decided to leave the direction of the project (with which, we remember, he was associated at the time of the official announcement of the fifth film in the saga), although participated as executive producer, But we can discuss this.
do you think a Indiana Jones 5 It was in the plans from the startAnd by beginning, we mean 1979, when, a year after the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg and Indiana Jones co-producer George Lucas entered into a five-film saga with Paramount Pictures (the original rights owner). However, active development of Episode 5 began only in 2009, after the box office success Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but Lucas and Spielberg failed to make ends meet with the script: the former wanted to return to the atmosphere of the original trilogy, while the latter would have preferred to continue the experiments of the fourth episode. Now and then, In 2012, Lucasfilm was bought by DisneyIndiana Jones 5 seems to be hanging in the balance, as new President Kathleen Kennedy quickly made it clear that this new partnership would prioritize the Star Wars saga.
The project was officially given the green light in 2016, and in 2019 fresh off the incredible back-to-back success of Post And ready player one Released this year Spielberg announced that he would direct Indiana Jones 5, But in February 2020, just before the start of the pandemic, the director announced that he would be relinquishing directorial duties to his younger colleague James Mangold, handing him perhaps the most difficult task in the history of cinema: Take Spielberg’s place, actually, take Spielberg’s place at the helm of Indiana Jones.
But where did this decision come from? Although original writer, longtime Spielberg collaborator David Koepp, has spoken repeatedly about several story issues, Variety noted at the time of Mangold’s announcement that decision not to direct Indiana Jones 5 It was Spielberg’s personal decision…and probably more than fans will ever know.