For the past decade, Disney has been the Teflon movie studio, remarkably adept at withstanding the tectonic changes impacting the film industry, and well fortified by its arsenal of key properties …
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.
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.