Professor Indiana Jones adventures in The Last Crusade 24th Oct 9pm on STAR Movies
Professor Indiana Jones adventures in The Last Crusade 24th October 9pm only on STAR Movies
Having Sean Connery play Indy’s father in The Last Crusade was actually, an inside joke to James Bond being the father of Indiana Jones. Steven Spielberg had always wanted to do a Bond film but did Indiana Jones as a James Bond type character.
Sean Connery was always Steven Spielberg’s first choice to play Indiana Jones’s father though he is just 12 years older than him. Harrison Ford and Sean Connery passed up three subsequent opportunities to work together. Connery accepted a role in The Hunt for Red October (1990), while Ford declined the role of Jack Ryan, which went to Alec Baldwin instead. Ford later took over the role in Patriot Games (1992). Ford and Connery both declined the roles of Alan Grand and John Hammond, respectively, in Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993). Connery declined to return to the role of Henry Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
The Last Crusade has a unique connection with the James Bond series. The film stars a former James Bond (Sean Connery), a former Bond ally (John Rhys-Davies), a former Bond girl (Alison Doody), two former Bond commanding officers (Michael Byrne and Billy J. Mitchell), a former Bond nightclub owner (Vernon Dobtcheff), and three former Bond villains (Julian Glover, Stefan Kalipha and Pat Roach).
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