Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Owes Its Existence To Young Indiana Jones
Without The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, we may have never gotten the Star Wars prequels.
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Without The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, we may have never gotten the Star Wars prequels.
Indiana Jones, who would have been 124 today, had more adventures after the Dial of Destiny including losing his right eye.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/LucasFilm LtdMore often than not, to be an Indiana Jones fan means embracing the ridiculous. That South American temple armed with a giant rolling ball as a security system in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Seems plausible! A man in a foreboding headdress rips some poor soul’s heart out before somehow burning him alive? When Temple of Doom came out, we went with it. Noted Scotsman (and former James Bond) Sean Connery as Harrison Ford’s dad in
Can someone please explain how a man who loves horseback riding and hates rats and cockroaches winds up living in New York City?
Harrison Ford has played Indiana Jones in five movies, but actually portrayed the character a sixth time on screen back in the 1990s.