Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy knows why Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull didn't work: 'I don’t think there’s any specific thing that any of us looked back on, except that we may not have had as strong a story as we wanted.”
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy explains why Indiana Jones 4 didn’t work. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas teamed up in truly epic fashion when in 1981 they unleashed upon the world the action classic Raiders of the Lost Ark and its iconic central character Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford’s Jones would later return for a pair of sequels in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY It seemed appropriate indeed that 1989’s Jones entry was titled The Last Crusade, as most thought Spielberg and Ford had retired the character forever. It was a surprise then when the pair elected to return for 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, with Lucas also on-board as a main creative force. Unfortunately, the consensus is that Crystal Skull was a major failure and a black mark on both the Indiana Jones franchise and Spielberg’s legacy.
“You never set out to do anything except make a great movie. And sometimes you hit that perfectly, and sometimes you don’t. In the case of ‘Indy 4’, I don’t think there’s any specific thing that any of us looked back on, except that we may not have had as strong a story as we wanted.”Why Indiana Jones 4 Failed With a worldwide box office gross of $790 million, it’s hard to say that Crystal Skull exactly failed.
The Indiana Jones character is of course known for being plunged into wildly absurd misadventures that he somehow survives by the skin of his teeth. But Crystal Skull pushed things beyond the pleasurable action-adventure silliness of the '80s Indiana Jones films and into territory that was too broadly cartoonish even for such an inherently ridiculous franchise.
Kennedy’s assertion that story was the main problem with Crystal Skull is something few will argue with. And perhaps with a better story, Spielberg and company would have felt more confident staging the kind of bone-crunching old-school action scenes the franchise was previously known for. But it’s also possible that Spielberg himself was just not into staging that kind of action anymore, and would not have been the right director for Crystal Skull even had the movie boasted a stronger story.
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