Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director, James Mangold, recently compared the two titular heroes at the sunset of their franchises. The highly anticipated upcoming Indiana Jones film will be the fifth and final series in the action-adventure film series. Harrison Ford dons the iconic fedora once again for his final romp as the thrill-seeking archeologist. He will be joined by Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena, Antonio Banderas as Renaldo, Boyd Holdbrook as Klaber, Mads Mikkelsen as Jürgen Voller, and John Rhys-Davies as Sallah, Jones' old compatriot from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
In a recent interview with EW, Mangold compared his work with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to Logan. In 2017, the director helmed Logan, the titular character's swansong in the X-Men franchise. Although Mangold explained that Logan was a "very purposefully and intentionally grim adventure, very dramatic, and very serious," he reassures that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will remain an Indiana Jones film. Read more of what Mangold had to say below:
"I'm always interested in this idea of a hero at sunset. What does the hero do when the world no longer has a place for him? I find it really interesting to try to look at classical heroes through the prism of our jaundiced contemporary attitudes."
"I am under no illusions that my job making an Indiana Jones film was to suddenly beat the humor out of it and turn it into some kind of dirge. I think that what we're trying to do is balance both an accurate and realistic appraisal of where this character would be at this time in his life, and do that honestly, and at the same time, try and carry forward what the very title of our movie promises, which is a romp and a wonderful adventure with action and chivalry and escapes by the skin of your nose and ingenious solutions to diabolical problems. This is an Indiana Jones film."
How Indiana Jones 5 Will Be Different From Logan
Mangold's comments indicate that the director, who also served as one of the film's writers, has the desire to not only stay true to the look and feel of an Indiana Jones movie, but maintain the honesty that he believes the character deserves. Although Logan was firmly set within Fox's X-Men franchise, the movie felt less like the films of the past and more like a separate character study. Although the superhero movie was praised by critics and audiences alike, its character-driven narrative, compelling dramatic performances, and R-rating removed it from the franchise's aesthetic.
The director promises that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will adhere to the formula that audiences fell in love with when Raiders of the Lost Ark hit theaters in 1981. However, Mangold insinuates that the film will act as a character study, an endeavor that is different from the previous plot-driven films of the franchise. With a PG-13 rating, the upcoming film will not shock its audiences with gruesome violence, as Logan did with the X-Men film series.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will once again pit Jones against the Nazis. Instead of the narrative finding itself orbiting World War II, the movie will take place during the Cold War at the height of the space race in 1969. With the Apollo 11 moon landing likely a major plot point in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, audiences may find Jones on a wild adventure that has taken him farther than he has ever gone before.
Source: EW
