What is surprising is that the current crop of movie producers and directors are as inept as they are woke. The owners of the James Bond franchise periodically replaced the actor playing the 007 character for a younger man. Why wasn’t the same done for Indiana Jones, replacing the octogenarian Harrison Ford with a younger man?
The problem with Indiana Jones is not Harrison Ford’s age so much as Kathleen Kennedy. She’s the same one who singlehandedly wrecked the Star Wars franchise Disney paid a fortune to get as well. She used exactly the same formula for both. Denigrate the main characters. Tell the audience they were stupid for ever having liked the main characters - heterosexual White Males. Replace the main characters with a young British Brunette female who can do no wrong (ie what Kennedy fantasizes herself to be) and fill the movie with a bunch of woke garbage. Spend a pile of cash doing all of this.
Then sit back and watch it crash and burn at the box office.
Then wait for Disney to hand her another extremely valuable property to ruin and another pile of cash to do it with.
In the 2008 Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, they had the bright idea of bringing in Shia LaBeouf as Indiana’s son, with the evident plan of having him carry on for the aging Ford.
Not the brightest idea.