“If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones.” So said the famous tagline on the poster for 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second film in the franchise created by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Now the world’s most famous archaeologist is back for one final hurrah, in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. And so Harrison Ford, who has stated that this is his last outing as the character, is back donning that hat and cracking that whip once again.
His last venture was 2008’s much-maligned Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. So, can adventure still have a name when Indy’s pushing seventy? Ford definitely thinks so. “This is not an endless stream of jokes about old farts and that kind of thing,” he says, kicking back in the Carlton Hotel the day after the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. “This is more complex and textured. And I owe that to what Jim accomplished in the screenplay.”
