This Indiana Jones 5 villain rumor’s been on movie blogs for a while.
Indiana Jones film baddies can be nearly as memorable the franchise’s namesake swashbuckling archeologist. The creepy, bespectacled Gestapo agent and that scimitar-swinging dude in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The human-sacrificing high-priest from “Temple of Doom.” And, oh yeah, an immortality-chasing tycoon in “The Last Crusade.”“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
But von Braun’s legacy is complicated. Earlier in his life, he’d been a member of the Nazi party and developed a World War II weapon for German dictator Adolf Hitler that killed tens of thousands of people. The Indiana Jones character was created by George Lucas, the auteur whose “Star Wars” franchise launched Ford into being one of the biggest movie stars in the world. “Jaws” mastermind Steven Spielberg directed the franchise’s first four films, including 2008′s “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” James Mangold -- known for “Walk the Line,” “Logan” and “Ford v Ferrari” -- directed and cowrote “Dial of Destiny.
After becoming a member of the Nazi party circa 1937 he developed the V-2 missile for Hitler’s Germany. That V-2 missile was deadly, in more ways than one., “Before he [von Braun] was building rockets for America, he was building them for Hitler. Germany launched more than 3,000 missiles of his design against Britain and other countries, indiscriminately killing approximately 5,000 people, while as many as 20,000 concentration camp prisoners died assembling the weapons.
AL.com reached out to NASA for comment regarding von Braun being the partial inspiration for the new Indiana Jones villain, how von Braun’s Nazi past impacts his and NASA’s legacy going forward and other related questions. As of publishing of this story, we hadn’t received responses to our questions.
Like many veterans, Margrit’s father never spoke of his war experiences, she said. “I knew him as my father, and I knew him as a person. And I knew the kind of heart and soul he had. He had to do things that you have to do when you’re working under a dictator.”
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