What Happened To Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny?!

the year was 1973 George Lucas had just finished writing the screenplay for what would become his hit Coming of Age film American Graffiti a poster on the wall caught his eye it was an image of a man leaping between a horse and truck which made him lose focus and daydream of the old serialized films that he enjoyed as a child you know films like Buck Rogers zoro's fighting Legion and spy Smasher flashed through his brain as he had the instant idea of bringing that type of b-level hero to the big screen he would take this idea and fles out a story of a college professor who moonlit as an archaeologist Adventurer little did he know that that simple idea would yield one of the greatest and most enduring franchises in movie history as his character Indiana Jones has gone on to appear in five feature films over the course of 42 years that have gross nearly $2 billion in the worldwide box office for many anytime the character Graces the screen is cause for celebration but it would seem that the years have not been to this Fedora wearing hero as his last adventure was met with a giant shoulder shrug by audiences with his final Adventure in our rear viw it's time to take a look at just what the happened to Indiana Jones and the dial of Destiny launched on June 12th 1981 Raiders of the Lost Arc as it was originally titled before officially being retitled to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc in 1999 to match up with the titles of the other movies the film would Garner strong box office receipts not following out of the top 10 for 40 weeks eventually Raiders would be heralded as one of the best films ever made being recognized by the Library of Congress and National film registry as a film with great historical cultural and or aesthetic value I'm sure Tom celic was happy for the film success even if he was supposed to be starring as the heroic archaeologist who was originally named Indiana Smith after George Lucas's dog but celic was committed to the show Magnum PI at the time director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas asked CBS Studios to let celic out of his contract just 10 days early so they could shoot the movie but CBS decided that the filmmakers asking for celic meant he was in demand and quickly moved forward with their series forcing celic to drop out of the film and the filmmakers to turn to a man known for another iconic George Lucas role Harrison Ford with the success of Raiders the studio quickly greenlit the original trilogy that George Lucas had pitched although he didn't actually have three fully fleshed out stories to tell so he and spe Berg went back to the drawing board to devise a worthy followup the story for Temple of Doom was a far darker one which both men attribute to the fact that at the time of its development they were both going through relationship issues that saw them have a Bleaker outlook on the world the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom would open on May 23rd 1984 and Garner a then record-breaking opening week of $5.7 million on its way to becoming the highest grossing film of that year at the worldwide box office with 333 $1 million yet more importantly this is the film that created the PG-13 rating at the time of its release there was no rating in between PG and R and as this one didn't quite deserve an R rating it was given a PG which many parents took issue with as it featured some pretty extreme violence for the 12 and under crowd Spielberg himself would Lobby the MPAA for an intermediary rating between the PG and R and 2 months later the PG-13 was introduced with Red Dawn becoming the first theatrical released film to Garner such a rating despite the accolades and Fortune headed upon Temple of Doom it still had its detractors who objected to the film's darker tone Spielberg heard those criticisms and decided to make the next film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade a more light-hearted Endeavor which they did by adding the old fatherson Dynamic with Shan connory cast as Indiana's father Henry Jones senior the film would be released on May 24th 1989 where again it broke records raking in over 37 million for the Memorial Day Weekend ultimately topping out at over $474 million worldwide Last Crusade would follow in its predecessor's footsteps by becoming the highest grossing film at the worldwide box office that year and so it would seem that the highly profitable franchise had come to its inevitable conclusion of course they would try to bring the series to the small screen in 1992 by creating the young Indiana Jones Chronicles starring sha Patrick Flannery but with the show's high production budget and unimpress Ive ratings it was canceled after just a single season they would bring it back to TV a few years later by releasing a string of made for TV movies but ultimately people just wanted another big screen adventure and in actuality there were plans for more Big Screen Adventures in the works since Lucas and Spielberg made their first deals with Paramount they had originally signed a five picture deal in 1979 however after Last Crusade Lucas just couldn't think of a good enough plot device to bring the character back this is why they turned their attention to the young Indiana Jones TV series and even though that series was shortlived it did help fuel the jet for the next big screen Adventure while filming the series Harrison Ford would come back for a single episode where he narrated his 1920s Adventure while in a 1950s Wyoming setting when filming this scene Lucas realized that this scene was a great entry point to telling a story of an older Indiana Jones one set in the ' 50s that could feature that old B movie Magic that Lucas thought of when he originally conceived the idea he felt that the original Trilogy was inspired by the 1930s Saturday matina serials and the new stories could take their cue from 1950s be movies such as it came from outer space and them and that ladies and gentlemen is when George Lucas decided the next Indiana Jones film would feature aliens scripts for the next Indiana Jones Adventure were being written as early as 1993 with both Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg resisting the urge to make an alien film Lucas tried to explain to them that Indiana Jones was more than just a man looking for some artifact but could be a franchise that explored different genres with each Adventure as the Fantastical nature of the stories lent themselves to opening up the world beyond what they had already seen by March 1996 several versions of the new script had been written but then something happened that put the ultimate kibos on making an Indiana Jones movie that hinged on Aliens and that was Independence Day which was released just a few months later with Spielberg Flatout telling Lucas he would not make an Invasion movie after seeing the Roland Emer directed Blockbuster ultimately The Visionaries would reunite at a 2,000 tribute to Harrison Ford where they all agreed they missed working together this would lead Lucas and Spielberg to sit down and really hammer out the details for the new film with Lucas convincing Spielberg that using aliens could still be grounded in reality as crystal skulls were actually ancient Aztec relics that many believed to have been alien in nature for someone like George Lucas that's all you need to craft a story out of the world's most famous archaeologists going after an ancient artifact that was alien in nature Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Crystal Skull would be released on May 22nd 2008 27 years after the original film hit theaters and although the film would Garner strong box office revenue $ 79.6 million worldwide it was met with audiences questioning the choice to use aliens as a plot device for many it felt like it just didn't ring true to who and what Indiana Jones was despite some of the Fantastical elements of the original trilogy they all seem to be grounded in reality and that throwing an aliens seemed to be a little too Fantastical for an Indiana Jones tale so with that level of disappointment in what could have been the final adventure of Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones on the big screen the creative team of George Lucas Steven Spielberg Kathleen Kennedy and Harrison Ford began working on a concept for a new film Ford said that he felt the ending of Crystal Skull was good but didn't actually feel like an ending for the character sure he got married to the love of his life Mary and Ravenwood but he just didn't feel like it closed out the character in a way that he wanted to so Lucas again would go away to conceive of a new story he still liked the idea of using some sort of McGuffin that was Supernatural but he needed to find a way to ground it in reality saying that you cannot just have Indie go out into the woods and stumble across a time machine of course while Lucas was pondering where to take Indiana Jones on his next adventure he himself on a Grand Adventure after deciding to sell his his production company Lucas film to Disney for $4 billion with his sale Lucas would take a step back from the creative process of all of his own Creations including Star Wars and Indiana Jones while many speculate that Lucas was not involved at all in the process of the new Indiana Jones film Spielberg set the record straight by saying that there would never be an Indiana Jones movie without George Lucas's involvement and that he would remain attached to the project as an executive producer with a new script in the works from writer David Coop a release date of 2019 was set however by early 2018 no final script had been approved and lucasfilm would hire writer Jonathan casden to come on board and try to figure out the story and the film would be pushed back to 2021 of course by mid 2019 Casen had left the project with Co-op rejoining the team by February 2020 Spielberg who had helmed all the previous entries in the franchise decided he wanted to pass the film off to a new filmmaker to infuse it with a fresh perspective so by May 2020 Logan and Ford V Ferrari director James Mangold was confirmed to have taken over directing duties with him and Harrison Ford having previously worked together on the 2020 film The Call of the Wild which Mangold produced Mangold was originally reluctant to sign on for the film as Kathleen Kennedy wanted to keep the 2021 release date and that meant that Mangold would have to be ready to shoot within 6 months of signing on and that was without an approved script being finished what helped soothe mangold's fears of a rushed production the covid-19 pandemic the pandemic shut down all production for a period of time giving Mangold necessary time to write the script and have a proper pre-production Mangold would bring on his Ford V Ferrari screenwriters brothers jez and John Henry Butterworth throughout the entire time the film had been in the works it would seem George Lucas's original idea of introducing time travel to the franchise never wavered but it was mangled who really honed in on how they could have that concept used properly in an Indiana Jones Adventure by keeping it steeped in reality enter the anti-a mechanism an ancient piece of Machinery used during the helenistic time period of 323 BC to 30 BC which was discovered in 1901 off the coast of antique atheria Greece in a shipwreck of a Roman cargo shipped believed to have sunk between 70 and 60 BC the heavily damaged and degraded piece of Machinery was believed to have been used to predict solar eclipses decades in advance as well as track the orbit of the Sun and Moon so now that there was an actual Relic in existence that had the faintest hint of time travel associated with it mangled in his right ERS did what all great creatives do they filled in the Rest by adding that this machine which had not yet been given a theatrical name could detect Fishers in time mangled said this wasn't any more of a wild swing than the previous films that featured ghouls flying out of boxes and people's faces melting off he said that Indiana Jones films are built on the fusion of fantasy and reality from what may have been to what is impossible but mangled knew who he had to impress first and foremost with his story so he would send George Lucas and Steven Spielberg pages is every few months to get their input prior to the film's production there were several rumors floating around that the studio was looking to pass off the character to a new actor to portray for future Adventures whether that meant a new actor playing the actual role of Indiana Jones or Ford passing the torch to a new character was never made clear names like Shia labuff and Chris Pratt were floated around with lauff being a natural successor as he played Indiana and maran's Son mut Williams in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull although lau's off-screen Antics seem to have negated him from the the role for a time it did seem that Hollywood it boy Chris Pratt would be the one to take up the Fedora and whip but all of that seemed to be just internet speculation with no actual fire beneath it franchise producer Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg both said that they never even considered replacing Ford in the titular role with Fort even saying quote I am Indiana Jones when I'm gone he's gone perhaps the idea wasn't to replace Indiana Jones but to create a new character that could carry the franchise with Further Adventures enter Phoebe Waller Bridge who came on board to play Indiana's never mentioned before goddaughter Helena while also helping punch up the script something that was more than suited for her as she has multiple Emmys for writing on shows like killing Eve and fleabag as well as helping bring to a close another iconic character with the James Bond film no time to die by April 2021 things were starting to fall in line with the casting in full bloom as names such as mads Mickelson Thomas ketchman Toby Jones boydd Holbrook shant Renee Wilson and Antonio Ben DZ were added in undisclosed roles soon after it was announced that John ree Davies would also reprise his role as Salah while two names remained suspiciously absent from any casting notices Karen Allen who played Indiana Jones's now wife Maran Ravenwood and sha buff who played the couple's son for Allan her absence would remain a mystery until the first screenings when it was revealed she was indeed in the film albeit in a glorified Cameo for Karen Allen this was a bittersweet ending to her time in the series she loved the fact that she was able to take part in the concluding chapter but would reveal in interviews that originally her role was much larger in the earlier scripts and that when James mangle took over the project and rewrote the script her role took a dramatic decline she attributes her lack of screen time to the writers trying to figure out how to handle the character played by Shia lauff after the release of kingdom of the crystal School lauff decided to go full labuff and criticize both the film and Steven Spielberg by saying that the Oscar winning filmmaker was quote less a director than he is a company end quote essentially he's saying that he was disappointed working with the legendary director saying that Spielberg had lost his Artistic integrity and ran his sets more mechanical and contrived even going a step further and saying that he hated every film he made with Spielberg with the exception of the first Transformers which Spielberg executive produced for his part mangled says lau's comments had no factor in him writing the character out of the film but that he simply felt that mut Williams's character did not work in the previous film he thought about just having the sun off at War but he didn't like the idea of having a character in the film that was never seen saying that it felt almost like a sad Purgatory for the character so he decided to kill him off and use that as a plot point for some added drama with the lead characters for Karen Allen that plot Point meant that the filmmakers needed to reduce her role in the film to add some drama between the characters as the death of their son drove a wedge between them that would then make their reconciliation at the end of the film that much more impactful but still we've spent 40 years falling in love with these two characters together and to split them up for our final Adventure was just one example of how dial of Destiny seemed to miss the creative Mark after nearly 15 years of false starts on June 4th 2021 a new Indiana Jones film had finally began production at the sound stages at Pinewood Studios near London England it would be a different shoot than any of the previous ones not just because they were filming in the middle of a global pandemic that saw new protocols instilled but also because were dealing with a star that was in his late 70s which would lead to any number of issues which it did when Ford reportedly injured his shoulder rehearsing a fight scene and the production was forced to shoot around the injury to give Ford time to heal the film would shoot for a grueling 8 and 1/2 months and would be a global trotting affair with locations in Glasgow Italy and even the Mediterranean Sea with the final day of shooting on February 26 2022 back at Pinewood Studios the film would cost a reported $295 million now to put that into perspective the budget of the Original Trilogy all three films added together was just 97 million this one film cost over a $100 million more than the entirety of the original trilogy with the film in the can and fans eagerly awaiting the final adventure of one of our favorite characters one thing that hadn't yet been released was the actual title of the film The subtitle of a film can generally give you a slight indication as to the plot of the movie and there is no franchise that uses sub titles to Greater effect than Indiana Jones so on November 23rd 2022 the day before Thanksgiving in the United States Disney dropped the official title for the film Indiana Jones and the dial of Destiny intriguing it would be just a week later that fans got their first look at the new adventure when the studio released the first teaser trailer which did exactly what a teaser trailer should do got fans excited that a new Indiana Jones Adventure was on the way it was around this time that reports of dis disastrous test screening started making their way online a random YouTuber started posting tips from his own personal Hollywood spy that said Disney was so disappointed with the film that they demanded re-shoot and that after the re-shoot the film was still a genuine [ __ ] show that would forever tarnish the legacy of Indiana Jones that person said that the studio had held test screenings where they tested six different endings and that the best score they ever received was a 35% James mangled saw these claims and quickly took to Twitter to set the record straight stating that there had been zero test greeings of the film but the internet internetted and told Mangold that he was wrong and whereas a director can certainly lie to protect their product the one thing that was repeatedly said in these internet rumors was that at the end of the film Phoebe Waller Bridge's character puts on the Fedora in all six endings something mangled flat out denied and for those of us who have seen the movie no one but Harrison Ford wears that Fedora so what did we learn don't trust the internet except for us here at Joe blo of course we do the research and get the actual truth and we don't pedal in Internet rumors the film would make its worldwide premere at the can's film festival in late May 2023 where reports quickly came out that the film received a lukewarm reception many noted that the film only received a 5-minute Standing Ovation which sounds good but those same reports noted that the reception was more of a polite formality than an actual Praise of the film reactions to the film began making their way online with many saying that the humor in the film didn't work and that despite the film being perfectly fine it just wasn't worthy of being an Indiana Jones film of course it wasn't all bad some First Reactions hail the film as an instant classic and a fitting sendoff for one of the screen's most enduring Heroes and then the review and Bargo lifted reviews began flooding in and while many found the film to be entertaining enough the general consensus was that the final Indiana Jones movie simply needed to be better our own Chris bombre a long time time fan of the franchise called this the most disappointing movie to come out in recent years and that he had wished the franchise had just ended with the Last Crusade while other reviews took issue with the film again using a Fantastical plot device for the story as well as some new characters including Teddy Kumar played by Ethan Isidor who simply felt like the filmmakers trying to force a short round 2.0 into the movie and as everything everywhere all at once has taught us you cannot replace Short Round Indiana Jones in the dial of Destiny was given a Prime release date of June 30th 2023 a date that would set it up for Success over the domestic holiday of Independence Day its only competition being a run-in the-mill animated film called Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken and some independent film called sound of Freedom about child sex trafficking the Indiana Jones films had always been massive box office successes but this one was facing an uphill battle the previous film Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was able to secure an opening weekend of over 100 million but people were generally let down with that film and that usually leads to a softer opening for any sequel it also faced a theatrical Marketplace that saw older movie goers you know the type of movie goers that this movie was geared towards still being a bit hesitant to get back into theaters on its opening weekend Indiana Jones in the dial of Destiny only managed $6.3 million about $5 million less than even the most modest of predictions luckily it still had the 4th of July holiday that would help Pat out its numbers but then something unexpected it happened that little independent movie about child sex trafficking actually beat Indiana Jones at the domestic box office on Tuesday July 4th pulling in 14.2 million against Indies 11.6 million granted there is a bit of an asterisk next to those numbers as the studio behind sound of Freedom used some new fangled Pay It Forward price Model to run up those numbers even with that little Aster the fact of the matter is Indiana Jones in the dial of Destiny was turning into into an unforeseen box office bomb especially when you consider its massive near $300 million price tag sadly the film would not recover in its second weekend it lost over 54% of its audience and those numbers continued to fall until the film as of the time of this writing was only able to secure 382.05 years one of the screen most iconic Heroes would go out with a whimper so what do we make of this film's Legacy can the dial of Destiny one day be seen as a truly worthy sendoff for the iconic whip carrying hero or was he a hero that should have remained with the iconic action films of the80s and nothing more only time can really tell but the real question is because you know no studio will ever allow a franchise to lay dormant for too long how long will it be before we return to the world of Indiana Jones and who will it be that Dawns the iconic Fedora and that my friends is what the happened to Indiana Jones and the dial of [Music] [Music] Destiny [Music]

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