Indiana Jones 5: Is the ending of the movie satisfactory? The director answers the fans

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Indiana Jones and the Dialer of Fate, the fifth and final part of the famous saga, will be released in theaters on June 28, and it will end surprisingly, which probably did not leave many viewers indifferent.

Especially surprising and unexpected, the ending of the film involves our favorite adventurer
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in another era (As you might expect given the artifact he’s been chasing throughout the movie) … but not what we imagined!

Indeed, although the opening scene of the feature film, set in 1944, might prepare us
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In the final showdown, which is right around this time, Indiana Jones finds himself driven by a mistake… B.C. In 212, during the famous siege of Syracuse. In a clash between Nazi soldiers and Greek warriors, Indy meets Archimedes, the inventor of the Dial of Destiny, which allows him to travel through time..

Some fans suspect the film’s ending was rewritten, with director James Mangold recently speaking out and saying it’s an epilogue
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antique It was planned for a long time:

“This is the ending we wrote two years ago…”explained the director at the microphone of the podcast Ringer.

“When you start writing something, you don’t know exactly how you’re going to let it go, you just keep working.
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And there was a time when I thought maybe they would go back to Germany And that Indy would interfere crazies To do what he wanted, but I felt like we already did that in the intro.“

A few days before, with Our colleagues from the PremierMangold has already explained this
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Return to 1944 In his eyes, it would be too predictable:

“(…) The playwright in me thought it was too much information and probably not the most interesting and surprising lead. The film depicts three periods:
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1944, 1969 and, accordingly, 213 BC. And that we face the reality of that time.”

Always on podcast day RingerThe filmmaker also talked about the next scene, where
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Indiana Jones is forced back in 1969 by his godmother Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
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), explained that the return of the hero to the modern era was important in his eyes, and that, according to him, he could not stay with Archimedes. :

“It seems to me that it would be suicidal for a while, it would be a bit boring. Would he really be happy? Even Phoebe says so (…). It’s all more like the whim of a boy who can’t find a good reason to go home.”

Back in 1969, in New York, Indiana Jones
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He also finds his wife MarionHowever, his son Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf, is not in the feature film.

What did you think of the conclusion of this fifth opus?

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