When Disney completed their purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, most of the focus was placed on the Mouse House assuming control of Star Wars, which was completely understandable. After all, the sprawling sci-fi saga presented a blank canvas on which to tell any number of stories set in a galaxy far, far away, even if the majority of them so far have stuck almost too rigidly to names, faces and locations we’ve already seen a number of times before.
Disney also acquired the rights to Indiana Jones, but the future of the whip-cracking archeologist was a lot less certain. The four installments may have raked in close to $2 billion at the box office and rewarded audiences with three of the greatest adventure movies ever made and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but unlike Star Wars, without Harrison Ford’s continued involvement interest in the franchise would diminish significantly.
There were rumors that the role might even end up being recast, but with Indiana Jones 5 still eying a July 2022 release date, longtime series producer Frank Marshall confirmed that not only is it going to be the last outing for the iconic character, but nobody else except Harrison Ford will ever play the role.
However, insider Daniel Richtman is claiming that Indiana Jones 5 will reportedly set up multiple spinoffs focusing on new characters, even though the movie itself doesn’t even have a finished script and there’s no word on any fresh or familiar faces being involved as of yet other than the leading man himself. That being said, Disney love to milk a cash cow for all its worth, but trying to justify the existence of multiple Indiana Jones projects without Ford’s presence will be an uphill battle.
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