Indiana Jones 5?

……Mangold admits that he was at something of an impasse. Already assigned with the task of making a new "Indiana Jones" movie, he could either hire an 80-year-old Harrison Ford or cast a new actor.

Given the options, the former seemed vastly preferable, but Mangold understood that audiences would reject either. He described his dilemmas thus:

"You have a wonderful, brilliant actor who's in his 80s. [...] So I'm making a movie about this guy in his 80s, 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?"

More than anything, though, Mangold understood that audiences rejected his film's themes of mortality. All heroes die, he wanted to say.

Action heroes, after all, live by a code of violence, often punching and killing hundreds of "bad guys" in the name of righteousness.

But all that murder must wear away a person's soul and doesn't necessarily warrant a cushy existence late in life.

Audiences accepted those themes in Mangold's "Logan" — about an elderly Wolverine — but rejected it with Indiana Jones. He said:

"Here come lifelong heroes from my childhood [Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy] into my life going, 'We have something for you to work on.' [It was 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." …..


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