Young Ian Bucknole grew up in Cornwall and like numerous kids went crazy for Indiana Jones, and now decades later as Lucasfilm’s lead video content creative he’s heading up the team behind the documentaries that detail the making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Speaking with Lucasfilm he looks back at his youth and the present day.
Having led the behind-the-scenes crew onset during production of Dial of Destiny, Bucknole then directed the new documentaries about the making of the film which are exclusively available on its 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD release. Along with the feature-length Disney+ production, Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford (for which Bucknole was a producer), this bevy of rich material is the output of Lucasfilm Video Production (LVP), the company’s in-house documentary team.
For Bucknole, the chance to join Dial of Destiny as behind-the-scenes filmmaker was the fulfillment of his lifelong passion for Indiana Jones. “I grew up in Cornwall, which is a Celtic region of England,” he explains. “It has its own language and is very steeped in history and literature and has a vibrant arts and film community. Growing up with VHS, I was just in love with the character. There was this crossover with my dad, who was a miner. He’d dig for treasure underground. The most starstruck I ever was as a child was meeting Harrison Ford’s waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s. I was probably eight-years-old, and my mum took my sister and I to London, which was the big city.”
