SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments, including the final scene, in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” currently playing in theaters. When Lucasfilm announced in 2016 that Steven Spielberg was making a fifth “Indiana Jones” movie with Harrison Ford, fans naturally wondered how much of a role Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood Indy’s […]
but in a good way. and i kept thinking, this is a fairytale. this is going to work. because this is a fairytale. alec guinness is a wide old warrior. mark hamill, the callow youth. carrie fisher, the beautiful princess. and the smartass. you always have to have a smartass. and you played it very well. i think i had the chops. then george lucas decides he s going to make another movie, raiders of the lost ark. and once again, he doesn t want people that have been in prior movies. so it s going to be tom selleck. tom selleck says, i want to do it but i ve got a tv series. here you are.
end to the saga to be ambitious with your character. yes. what does that mean, and do you think this movie pulls that off? i meant that i wanted it to be character driven, and i wanted us to confront the question of age straight-on, not to, you know not to hide my age but to take advantage of it in the telling of the story. and do you think the movie pulls that off? what you had hoped for? i feel very strongly that it does. one thing that i loved about the movie, among many things, is the fact that there were inside jokes for those of us who have followed you and followed indy since raiders of the lost ark in 1981. and this we re going to show a scene from 81, you then, you now, take a look.
consistent with the characters, the story that you re telling. it s almost it s too easy. speaking of technology, i don t want to give away too much of indy 5. the movie begins toward the end of world war ii. you re back fighting the nazis as you were in raiders of the lost ark. and through some technological wizardry, 80-year-old harrison ford looks exactly like 40-year-old harrison ford. do you understand how they did that? not completely. but it is 40-year-old harrison ford. and that s why it looks so good. lucasfilm, i ve been working for lucasfilm most of my adult life. every frame of film, those that are used in the films that we made together and those that are