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Apparently a lot of the movie was filmed during Covid and added safety protections greatly increased the cost. Also Ford got hurt a couple times rehearsing and performing fights. The man’s 80 years old so it’s no surprise they were trying to be extra careful with him.
But yeah most of that budget got sunk into tooooo many action sequences. Dragged like crazy. I bet you could cut like 30 minutes of action footage and end up with a better paced movie.
Indiana Jones cost almost $300 million?! Where did they spend all that money?
Apparently a lot of the movie was filmed during Covid and added safety protections greatly increased the cost. Also Ford got hurt a couple times rehearsing and performing fights. The man’s 80 years old so it’s no surprise they were trying to be extra careful with him.
https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-dial-of-destiny-budget/#:~:text=The biggest factor that drove,but also drove up costs.
The (admittedly really well done) de-aging for the opening sequence also could not have been cheap.
Unlike how The Irishman did it, they filmed the scenes with a young Ford lookalike, then CGI’d young Ford’s face on him.
Tbf the CGI Harrison Ford is crazy impressive
But yeah most of that budget got sunk into tooooo many action sequences. Dragged like crazy. I bet you could cut like 30 minutes of action footage and end up with a better paced movie.