Shia LeBeouf wasn't invited to return as Indy's son in the new IndianaJones movie, but his character's absence is explained.
Earlier this month, Mangold, 59, explained that he was more interested in giving Indiana a female companion, who arrives in the form of his goddaughter, Helena.
“I think the point I had was that when I came on, I wanted to capture that wonderful energy between Indy and an intrepid female character,” Mangold told ahead of the film’s release. “So that was my first goal, and there’s only so many people you can edge into a picture.”Lucasfilm/Paramount Pictures/Kobal/Shutterstock
It may not have been a surprise to diehard fans that LaBeouf, now 37, was not invited to return after he criticized his installment of the franchise in a 2010 interview with the“I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished,” LaBeouf said at the time. “If I was going to do it twice, my career was over. So this was fight-or-flight for me. The actor’s job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn’t do it.
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