'Indiana Jones' star Karen Allen 'disappointed' by smaller role in 'Dial of Destiny'
foxnews.com"Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" star Karen Allen was hoping her final bow in the franchise with Harrison Ford would be a little bigger than what audiences saw.
But the actress is grateful she appeared in the final movie. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Allen explained changes with the story after Steven Spielberg stepped down from directing. "When Steven was still going to direct the film, I didn’t have the opportunity to read any of those scripts, although I know that Marion was much more involved in the story at that juncture," Allen told the outlet. "So, I knew James [Mangold] had hired new writers and that there was going to be a whole new approach with a new director and new writers, but I was really going into the unknown. "The next thing I knew, I was reading a script that told [‘Dial of Destiny’s’] story, and, of course, I was disappointed.
I had thought that I would be majorly a part of the film, and that was just not the direction they decided to go." Allen’s character, Marion Ravenwood, appeared in the original Indiana Jones film, "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" with Ford and the fourth film in the franchise, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." In "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," Marion and Indy have a son together, Mutt, played by Shia LaBeouf.
At the end of the film, Marion and Indy get married. For "Dial of Destiny," Allen’s character is absent for the bulk of the movie apart from one pivotal scene.
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