Indiana Jones’ later life together with dropping eye after Dial of Destiny defined

Jul 01, 2023 at 7:09 PM
Indiana Jones’ later life together with dropping eye after Dial of Destiny defined

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY AHEAD.

The fifth and ultimate Indiana Jones film was principally set in 1969 and concludes with our hero being reunited along with his spouse Marion Ravenwood, however that’s not the tip of his journey.

According to the Nineteen Nineties official TV present The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, during which Harrison Ford makes a cameo, Indy was nonetheless alive into at the least his mid-nineties.

The collection established that the character was born on July 1, 1899 (124 years in the past at this time) and by 1992 was residing in upstate New York the place he was nonetheless giving the occasional faculty lecture regardless of having retired within the new film.

Each episode of the present depicted Sean Patrick Flanery’s Young Indy in and round World War I, however was additionally bookended by George Hall’s 93-year-old Old Indy recounting these tales of his youth.

Aside from nonetheless carrying his iconic fedora hat, previous Indy additionally had an enormous scar over his proper eye which was lined by an eye fixed patch.

Some Indiana Jones followers have been questioning if Indy would lose his eye throughout the occasions of Dial of Destiny, however this didn’t happen.

So canonically, it will need to have occurred to him sooner or later between 1969 and 1992. How precisely this occurred stays a thriller.

Although it’s price mentioning that these Old Indy segments have been lower out of the re-edited TV film variations of Young Indiana Jones for dwelling video, so it’s not unreasonable to imagine it’s been retconned. After all, Indy technically additionally has a daughter.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull introduce Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt, who turned out to be Indy’s son with Marion, Henry Jones III.

During Dial of Destiny, it was established that he’d been tragically killed off throughout the conflict in Vietnam.

Yet in Young Indiana Jones, Old Indy has scenes along with his daughter Sophie (Susan Bigelow) who’s the mom of his grandchildren Spike and Lucy. Is this all retconned by Dial of Destiny? Probably since there’s no point out of a daughter.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is out now in cinemas.