https://www.joblo.com/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-what-happened-to-this-movie/share
With Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny solidified as a major box office disappointment, we try to figure out how the franchise ended with such a whimper.
Get woke go broke.
shareTo fix this kind of thing we just need to convince Disney (since they apparently can't fire her) to make Kathleen Kennedy a new office...a locked (from the outside) soundproof vault, with padded walls, and a faraday cage surrounding it.
Then with any luck they can get on with making stuff that isn't awful.
It was a combination of things that led to its downfall: mixed reviews, the derailment of the franchise by the previous instalment, probably a lack of interest generally from a more modern audience for a character now being played by an 80 year old. Then there's the recent reputation of Disney producing quantity over quality and being overly woke.
In a way it might be fitting for it to end on a whimper, since a whimper is the best chance of it seeing its end. Had it been hugely successful, they'd already be thinking up what they can do with the franchise next.
Are people STILL trying to bury this movie? It's actually pretty good, and was only financially unsuccessful for 2 reasons:
1) They spent too much money making it.
2) Unlike James Bond, younger generations are not as interested in the character. Just by looking around the movie theater where I first saw it, I could tell most of the audience had seen the original trilogy in theaters as well.