Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will have Harrison Ford’s archaeologist search for a mythical artifact one last time, but it sure wasn’t the initial concluding chapter to this franchise.
The intended capper, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was to make for a trilogy of movies, pitting the hero in a race to find the Holy Grail, while also trying to find his missing father.
It’s not so much a breathless action-adventure story, as it is about healing and the mundane moments.
Director Steven Spielberg, himself, has explained what the Holy Grail means in this third chapter, other than an ancient relic and plot device, it has deep importance in the relationship between a father and son who have lost each other over decades of differences.
Just who could play Indy’s father, and actually upstage Ford in what was at the time to be his final adventure?…
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