Harrison Ford Unfazed By Fifth Indy Flopping

Actor Harrison Ford has revealed that the disappointing box-office returns for his fifth and final big screen outing as Indiana Jones hasn’t bothered him.

Out doing media interviews for “Captain America: Brave New World,” the veteran actor spoke with the Wall Street Journal who asked him about the poor performance of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” in 2023.

The movie ended up grossing a disappointing $384 million worldwide from a budget said to be around $329 million – racking up over $130 million in losses for Disney. Its box-office haul was just half of what 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” pulled in.

Back in December, the film’s director James Mangold suggested it was audiences not wanting to see Indy as an 81-year-old man and admitted that though making it was a “joyous experience,” the film’s financial failure “did hurt”. For Ford though, he was less impacted:

“S— happens. 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.”

He also spoke about artificial intelligence in filmmaking, saying Troy Baker’s performance as Indiana Jones in the new video game is a great example of how actors can’t be replaced by AI:

“You don’t need artificial intelligence to steal my soul. You can already do it for nickels & dimes with good ideas & talent. He [Baker] did a brilliant job & it didn’t take AI to do it.”

Ford is now joining the MCU, the actor saying: “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.” You can see Ford turn into Red Hulk when that film opens next Friday.

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