While there is no explicit context to the images in question, the age of the Roman Empire is much further back in history than the Indiana Jones franchise has ever ventured and certainly well removed from Indy's lifetime. For example, one collection of Dial of Destiny set photos shows actors dressed as what appear to be Roman gladiators.

Such a plot by Voller and other Nazi despots would make the stakes of Dial of Destiny the highest of the franchise.Īnother clue pointing to time travel is an element of Dial of Destiny's plot can be seen in set images from the film. If Voller were to use the dial to travel back in time to correct Hitler's errors in overseeing his conquest of Europe, it could be to rewrite history to lead to the allies' defeat and Hitler eventually conquering the world. The mistakes of Hitler that Voller references could lie in strategic errors that Hitler and the Nazis made in battling the allies that led to Germany's defeat in World War II. In Dial of Destiny's trailer, former Nazi scientist Jürgen Voller states, ' Hitler made mistakes, and with this, I will correct them all.' The idea that a relic as simple as the dial could correct or have any impact on the atrocities of the Third Reich is puzzling on the surface, but Voller's idea could be easier to grasp if the dial has the power to alter history. The Nazis have been recurring villains throughout the Indiana Jones franchise, with Dial of Destiny being Indy's third battle with the Nazis, but the context is bound to be quite different more than two decades after World War II. RELATED: Crystal Skull Already Retired Indiana Jones (But Indy 5 Can Work With It) Indy's past will also be crucial to Dial of Destiny's 1969-based story in another way. As a concept, time travel could enable Dial of Destiny to not only make a major flashback to Indy's past but allow Indy himself to be a part of it with the dial's potential time-travel powers. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull took a 'tell, don't show' approach to explaining Indy's military history since The Last Crusade. The Indiana Jones movies have never been concerned with showing flashbacks, the only major exception being the prologue of a teenage Indy (River Phoenix) in The Last Crusade.

With that said, there could be more going on here, with not only Dial of Destiny but Indy himself revisiting past events in his life. It would be easy and logical to attribute these glimpses of a younger Indy as being from his past adventures not seen on-screen previously. He appears to be roughly around the age range he was in between Raiders of the Lost and The Last Crusade, and Harrison Ford is very impressively de-aged. Dial of Destiny has also shown flashbacks of Harrison Ford as a younger Indy.

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