INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Star Harrison Ford Says "Sh*t Happens" After The Movie Bombed

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Star Harrison Ford Says "Sh*t Happens" After The Movie Bombed

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was a box office flop when it was released in 2023, and Indy himself, Harrison Ford, has broken his silence on that and why he has no regrets about making the movie.

By JoshWilding - Feb 05, 2025 04:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Indiana Jones
Source: WSJ (via ActioNewz.com)

When filmmaker James Mangold was announced as Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny's director, excitement for yet another sequel - something most hoped would never happen again after Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - increased significantly.

However, even with 70% on Rotten Tomatoes (the same as 3.5/5, basically), it still somehow ended up being one of 2023's biggest box office flops after earning only $384 million worldwide. With a whopping $295 million budget, it's thought the movie lost Disney and Lucasfilm upwards of $130 million.

Whether fans didn't want to see an older Indy or it was just the wrong story still isn't clear but people didn't show up. However, the icon himself, Harrison Ford, isn't losing any sleep over the movie bombing and has no regrets. 

"Shit happens," he told The Wall Street Journal (via ActioNewz.com). "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. I’m still happy I made that movie."

Ford now has the opportunity to bounce back in the blockbuster space with Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World and told the site he signed up to play President Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross with "no script" presented to him. "Why not? I saw enough Marvels to see actors that I admired having a good time."

"I didn’t really know that at the end I would turn into the Red Hulk," he then joked. "Well, it’s like life. You only get so far in the kit until the last page of the instructions is missing."

Recently, Mangold admitted that the response to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - social media painted it as an insult to the iconic series - "hurt" him. 

"You have a wonderful, brilliant actor who’s in his eighties," he started. "So I’m making a movie about this guy in his eighties, but his audience on one other level doesn’t want to confront their hero at that age. And I am like, I’m good with it. We made the movie." 

"But the question is, how would anything have made the audience happy with that, other than having to start over again with a new guy?"

Reflecting on Ford, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy approaching him with the idea of helming the next Indiana Jones movie, Mangold said, "And then here come lifelong heroes from my childhood into my life going, 'We have something for you to work on."

He'd add that was it a "joyous experience, but it hurt in the sense that I really love Harrison and I wanted audiences to love him as he was and to accept that that’s part of what the movie has to say - that things come to an end, that’s part of life."

Were you disappointed with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.

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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 2/5/2025, 4:33 PM
Hahaha
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 2/5/2025, 4:34 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea -

Yeah and you signed onto it, you dingus!

You'd rather make millions than have integrity and demand a script that wasn't anti Indiana Jones and anti conservative woke trash.
Drace24
Drace24 - 2/5/2025, 5:24 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Lol. You may recall that Indy always punched Nazis.
Antitrollpatrol
Antitrollpatrol - 2/5/2025, 5:44 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - I have seen the movie but I don't recall anything in it being woke. The movie was nothing like the "leaks" that made it seem like a girl was going to take over. Am I missing something that happened in it that made it woke?(Honestly curious)
Antitrollpatrol
Antitrollpatrol - 2/5/2025, 5:46 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - or are you talking about the new cap movie?
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/5/2025, 7:20 PM
@Antitrollpatrol - he's got brain rot. No use arguing with him.
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 2/5/2025, 7:56 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - you realize indy always punched nazis?
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 2/5/2025, 9:13 PM
@McMurdo -

You have more brain rot than I do.

Enjoy the next 20 years of Republican presidency.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 2/5/2025, 9:14 PM
@Drace24 -

And that means what?

Lefties are the new
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 2/5/2025, 9:16 PM
@Nonameforme -

If Indy was in his 30s in the 2020s he'd be against Antifa and the left who are the man now.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 2/5/2025, 9:18 PM
@Antitrollpatrol -

You are probably on the left, which is why you can't identify the woke stuff.

Did you want Harris or Trump to win the election?
Antitrollpatrol
Antitrollpatrol - 2/5/2025, 9:34 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - I'm actually not on the left. I'm very republican thanks for asking. I am genuinely being serious about my question. I didn't see anything woke in it. That's why I was asking what you considered woke in it. Trying to have a conversation not fight.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/6/2025, 2:04 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - I'm not a lefty kiddo. You're literally just that insufferable. Hate to be the bearer of bad news...
Drace24
Drace24 - 2/6/2025, 8:00 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Always fun when you guys casually threaten America with more of your bullshit and still fail to understand why everyone thinks you are the bad guys. But with Trump's rapidly deteriorating brain, body and approval numbers, we'll see if he even makes it to the midterms, let alone rule as Emperor until he is 100, okay buddy?
Drace24
Drace24 - 2/6/2025, 8:04 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - The new what? Generation? Hope? Coke? Can you finish your sentence or has your brain short circuited from all that horse dewormer your favorite Fox News bullshitters make you drink?
Drace24
Drace24 - 2/6/2025, 8:21 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - That's an adorable illusion. Because here in reality you would think "the man" is the billionaire class authoritarian demogogue who uses his status and media influence to buy himself power which he then uses to screw you over and give more wealth and control to his oligarch friends. The same guy who has pardoned his personal terrorists and threatens neighboring countries with invasion, turn Gitmo into a concentration camp and bring upon WW3 by having our troops march into Gaza. Are those enough fascisty things for you or do I need to go further back than the past two weeks?

Face it, loser. Your Maga-cult is forever engraved in the human consciousness as a force of evil, much like the Nazis or the confederates - just not nearly as accomplished because of your ceaseless stupidity. And I am looking forward to a future where heroes like Indy or Captain America punch you ridiculous hat-wearing lunatics in the face for comedic effect.

Until then, enjoy your power fantasies. A vague sense of having owned the libs is the only thing you'll get from the next four years.
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 2/6/2025, 1:57 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - no he'd definitely still be punching nazis which are definitely not leftists
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 2/6/2025, 4:25 PM
@Antitrollpatrol - really? movie is terrible and full of dei agenda. they literally tried to make Indy's granddaughter a better version of Indy at everything and not just because he's old. they dumbed Indy down mentally and physically to make her look better. then there's literally a random black female cia agent who is put in there for no reason. they completed wasted the original indy characters like Salah and his wife to try and sell us his granddaughter.

only good thing from that film is john william's score which never fails to amaze. Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated the movie so much they literally made South Park's Into the Panderverse to shit on it, same thing happened in the past when Indiana Jones 4 was mixed too lol.
Antitrollpatrol
Antitrollpatrol - 2/6/2025, 5:11 PM
@mastakilla39 - maybe the excitement of seeing Indy on screen again clouded my views on the movie. I'll have to rewatch it again. Thanks for answering my question. I appreciate it!
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 2/6/2025, 6:15 PM
@Antitrollpatrol - i love Indy too. Harrison Ford is forever my Indy until they reboot it I can't and won't accept anyone else. if you are fine with Indy 5 thats fine too, I like Indy 4 despite unpopular opinion. Indy 5 was 1 of my most hyped and disappoints that year. Antonio Banderas was wasted as a cameo too despite how charming he was.

I can't believe some of the choices they did with Indy too. Why do studios make most of our old action heroes pissed off old men who lose passion in what they love? I also cannot accept the ending where Indy almost abandoned his family and friends to stay in the past with Archimedes in ancient Sicily either. it was not convincing and terribly foreshadowed. disney is really trying to kill INDY or exit him in his own franchise and hand it off to his unlikable god daughter.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 2/5/2025, 4:34 PM
14 February, more shit on the way
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 2/5/2025, 4:39 PM
@harryba11zack -

That shit heap will make $10-20 million profit.

I'd rather watch Steve and Margaret's honeymoon. The PG scenes.
Skestra
Skestra - 2/5/2025, 4:55 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Dude! No! At least with a PG-13 version we might get a chance to see Peggy's nipples!
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/6/2025, 7:37 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Cap 4 making a profit?
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