Indiana Jones’ son Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) isn’t going to be in the upcoming Indiana Jones 5, according to screenwriter David Koepp.
Koepp, who previously collaborated as a screenwriter with Spielberg on Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, offered EW a development update on his Indiana Jones 5 script, in the process confirming that “the Shia LaBeouf character is not in the film.”
LaBeouf went on to publicly dismiss Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg as being “less a director [than a] company” in 2016, though the actor later expressed regret over his choice of words. Mutt won’t be the first main character featured in an Indiana Jones movie to not return in a subsequent sequel.
Whether or not Mutt’s mother and Indiana’s now-wife, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) also won’t be returning in Indiana Jones 5, is another matter altogether.