Although many Indiana Jones fans were unhappy with the last installment, Harrison Ford has made his peace with the character.
The Oscar nominee recently shared his reaction to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny‘s unsuccessful 2023 opening after taking one last adventure as the titular archaeologist in the James Mangold-helmed sequel.
“S— happens,” he told WSJ. Magazine of the film’s poor box office performance. “I was really the one who felt there was another story to tell. When [Indy] had suffered the consequences of the life that he had to live, I wanted one more chance to pick him up and shake the dust off his ass and stick him out there, bereft of some of his vigor, to see what happened.”
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Ford added, “I’m still happy I made that movie.”
Dial of Destiny came amid a particularly rough 2023 for Disney, losing about $143 million on the fifth and final film in the franchise, which began with 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Also starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas and John Rhys-Davies, Dial of Destiny sees Indy racing against the clock to retrieve a legendary dial with the power to change the course of history.
Noting that he “will not be involved” in a potential television series in development, Ford previously told Total Film that Dial of Destiny would be his last time playing Indy. “This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I’ll play the character. I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film,” he said.
Ford recently returned for Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, and he can next be seen making his MCU debut as Thaddeus Ross in Captain America: Brave New World, premiering Feb. 14 in theaters.
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