WARNING: SPOILERS FOR INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY AHEAD.
The fifth and closing Indiana Jones film was largely set in 1969 and concludes with our hero being reunited together with his spouse Marion Ravenwood, however that’s not the top of his journey.
Based on the 1990s official TV present The Younger Indiana Jones Chronicles, during which Harrison Ford makes a cameo, Indy was nonetheless alive into not less than his mid-nineties.
The sequence established that the character was born on July 1, 1899 (124 years in the past as we speak) and by 1992 was residing in upstate New York the place he was nonetheless giving the occasional school lecture regardless of having retired within the new film.
Every episode of the present depicted Sean Patrick Flanery’s Younger Indy in and round World Battle I, however was additionally bookended by George Corridor’s 93-year-old Outdated Indy recounting these tales of his youth.
Apart from nonetheless sporting his iconic fedora hat, previous Indy additionally had a giant scar over his proper eye which was coated by a watch patch.
Some Indiana Jones followers have been questioning if Indy would lose his eye throughout the occasions of Dial of Future, however this didn’t happen.
So canonically, it will need to have occurred to him in some unspecified time in the future between 1969 and 1992. How precisely this occurred stays a thriller.
Though it’s value stating that these Outdated Indy segments have been minimize out of the re-edited TV film variations of Younger Indiana Jones for residence video, so it’s not unreasonable to imagine it’s been retconned. In spite of everything, Indy technically additionally has a daughter.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium introduce Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt, who turned out to be Indy’s son with Marion, Henry Jones III.
Throughout Dial of Future, it was established that he’d been tragically killed off throughout the conflict in Vietnam.
But in Younger Indiana Jones, Outdated Indy has scenes together with his daughter Sophie (Susan Bigelow) who’s the mom of his grandchildren Spike and Lucy. Is that this all retconned by Dial of Future? Most likely since there’s no point out of a daughter.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future is out now in cinemas.