Although the majority of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is set in 1969, the 2023 movie release began in 1944, when Harrison Ford’s Henry Jones Jr. met Mads Mikkelsen’s Jürgen Voller for the first time. Indy managed to successfully steal one half of the Archimedes Dial from Voller atop a moving train, and adding insult to injury, the Nazi was knocked off said train shortly thereafter. Frankly, the fall looked like it could have killed him, but members of the Indiana Jones 5 team have explained how Mikkelsen’s character managed to survive.
Production VFX supervisor Andrew Whitehurst and ILM VFX supervisor Robert Weaver spoke with THR about their work on Dial of Destiny, including how the train sequence came together. On the subject of how Voller made it through that nasty fall still breathing, Whitehurst opened up about what it was that knocked the character off the train in the first place:
