“[We’re] not doing the Bond thing where we’re going to call somebody else Indiana Jones,” series producer Frank Marshall tells the new issue of Total Film. “We have to figure this out.”
Which means the plan is not to bring in somebody to replace 73-year-old Harrison Ford the way George Lazenby and Roger Moore replaced Sean Connery.
(Of course many besides Ford have already played Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr., among them River Phoenix, Neil Boulane, Corey Carrier, Sean Patrick Flanery and George Hall.)
While promoting “Jurassic World” last May Chris Pratt said the rumors of him being approached to take over the role of Indiana Jones were wholly false ones.
The real plan appears to be to introduce a new character into the franchise. When Total Film asked about Pratt’s involvement, Marshall explained:
“There are a lot of rumours. We haven’t even sat down to talk about Indy yet … at some point we’ll sit down. But there’s a bunch of people who could probably take the baton.”
So maybe the series will continue after Indy leaves it? Will the post-Ford sequels be assigned names more like “Raiders of the Great Wall” or “Raiders of the Atlantean Tombs”?
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