Though it does have its share of defenders, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is generally considered to be the worst Indiana Jones movie (will it be replaced by The Dial of Destiny?), so nobody was too broken up when we learned that Shia LaBeouf would not be reprising the role of Mutt Williams.
Introduced as the son of Indy (Harrison Ford) and Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), it was widely assumed that LaBeouf's character would ultimately take up his father's iconic fedora if the franchise was to continue. Of course, that never happened, and Ford will still be going strong as the legendary archaeologist/adventurer in James Mangold's The Dial of Destiny.
The Logan director has previously confirmed that we will find out what became of Mutt, and, sure enough, the character's fate is revealed in an emotional scene between Indy and Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller Bridge).
Major spoilers follow.
As our heroes search for the second half of Archimedes' dial, aka the Antikythera, Helena asks her godfather where he would go if he did manage to use the dial to travel back in time. Jones says he would go back and prevent his son from enlisting just to "piss him off", before revealing that Mutt was killed in the Vietnam War. Williams' death then resulted in Indy and Marion's marriage breaking down.
As offscreen deaths go, it's really not a bad send-off for a character nobody was particularly attached to!
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The movie also stars Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Shaunette Renee Wilson (Black Panther), Thomas Kretschmann (Das Boot), Toby Jones (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Oliver Richters (Black Widow), and Ethann Isidore (Mortel).
Directed by James Mangold, the film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel, with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas serving as executive producers. John Williams, who has worked on each Indy adventure since the original Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, once again composed the score.