Outgoing Lucasfilm Boss Kathleen Kennedy Confirms No-One Is 'Interested Right Now in Exploring' a New Indiana Jones Movie, Stands by Dial of Destiny

Outgoing Lucasfilm brag Kathleen Kennedy has indicated it whitethorn beryllium immoderate clip earlier we spot different Indiana Jones movie, saying: “I don’t deliberation anybody is funny close present successful exploring it.”

It’s been two-and-a-half years since the critically panned Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny came out, and Lucasfilm has yet to bespeak that a follow-up is successful the works.

In an interrogation with Deadline confirming her exit from Lucasfilm aft 14 years, Kennedy stood by Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which saw Harrison Ford reprise his relation arsenic the much-loved whip-cracking archeologist. Indeed, Kennedy said the crushed Lucasfilm went guardant with the movie was Ford was truthful keen to bash it.

“I person nary regrets astir that due to the fact that Harrison wanted to bash that much than anything,” she said. “He did not privation Indy to extremity with the 4th movie. He wanted a accidental astatine another, and we did that for him. I deliberation that was the close happening to do. He wanted to bash that movie.”

The question present is, volition determination beryllium different Indiana Jones movie? Harrison Ford, who is approaching his 84th birthday, has said he’s done playing the character, truthful if Disney were to greenlight a caller Indy movie oregon TV series, it would person to beryllium with different histrion successful the iconic role.

“I don’t deliberation Indy volition ever beryllium done, but I don’t deliberation anybody is funny close present successful exploring it,” Kennedy confirmed. “But these are timeless movies, and Indy volition ne'er beryllium done.”

IGN’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reappraisal returned a 4/10. We said: “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny fails to recapture Spielberg’s magic. With uninspired enactment and conflicting themes and quality motivations, it’s impervious that immoderate things should conscionable beryllium allowed to end.”

In February past year, Harrison Ford said helium didn’t attraction that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny flopped critically and commercially, insisting "s**t happens."

The legendary histrion of Star Wars fame told The Wall Street Journal Magazine that, adjacent though helium "felt determination was different communicative to tell" successful the Indiana Jones universe, helium didn’t attraction that the 5th movie was critically panned and is estimated to person mislaid $100 cardinal aft a container bureau disaster.

"When [Indy] had suffered the consequences of the beingness that helium had to live, I wanted 1 much accidental to prime him up and shingle the particulate disconnected his ass and instrumentality him retired there, bereft of immoderate of his vigor, to spot what happened," Ford said. "I’m inactive blessed I made that movie."

Following the merchandise of Dial of Destiny, manager James Mangold told Variety helium had nary involvement successful continuing with Indiana Jones. "I refuse. I conscionable can't bash it," helium said. "The magnitude of lore and Easter eggs and instrumentality work starts to go antithetical to immoderate of this worldly astatine a definite point. It isn't storytelling anymore. It's large-scale advertising."

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