Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny Actor On Why She Was "Disappointed" Over Major Story Changes
Before Steven Spielberg dropped out of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the story was expected to be pretty different than what was ultimately delivered, according to an actor. James Mangold, the Oscar-nominated director who made Ford v Ferrari, Logan, and Walk the Line, stepped up to direct the movie after Spielberg bowed out. Along with the director change also came a change in the script, it seems.
Karen Allen returns in The Dial of Destiny to play Marion Ravenwood, but her part in the film was reportedly scaled back significantly. Allen told Variety she thought The Dial of Destiny would continue Marion and Indy's story after the dramatic events of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
For anyone unaware, that movie ended with Marion and Indiana Jones getting married after Marion revealed that Mutt (Shia LaBeouf) was his son. But in The Dial of Destiny, it is revealed that Marion and Indiana separated after Mutt was killed in the Vietnam War. Marion and Indy finally reunite at the end of The Dial of Destiny for a nice moment to wrap up Harrison Ford's time as the archaeologist adventurer.
«I did always imagine that it would be a story with Indy and Marion going forward. When Steven was going to direct the film, I think the scripts were more focused on an Indy/Marion story,» Allen said. «But when Steven stepped aside and James came in, he started fresh with new writers and they just went in the direction they went in. They were going to tell a different story. That's not to say that I had ever read a script that Steven was working on, because I hadn't. But I just knew from conversations that we'd had that the ongoing story had involved Marion in a much bigger way than the story that they ended up with.»
Allen said she
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