Chris Pine might be one they'll consider too
My favorite idea, actually.B.
Keep it in the 1930s/40s time frame in perpetuity.
Frankly I'm getting very tired of the whole movie "franchise" business.
Oh lord, WHY?!
Ack! "A time jump"!?
Quote: "It is speculated that Harrison Ford might reprise his role and that the story might take place after a time jump."
http://www.movienewsguide.com/india...t-part-franchise-harrison-ford-reprise/159810
I am wildly guessing (based on nothing) that a "time jump" might take today's Harrison Ford back to his Indiana Jones glory days of the 1930s. I hope I'm wrong.
I hope someone squashes that idea (if, indeed, that is what they are "speculating" about.)
he has a track record of successfully portraying an iconic character who has only ever been associated with a single actor....
A track record? He has played exactly one character as a younger version thereof. He played that specific character passably.
How does it follow he could do another?
He has neither the look nor the gravitas to portray Dr. Jones. Chris Pratt among all the others mentioned is best to pull it off, Bradley Cooper perhaps as well.
There is of course another option - the actor as yet not known...
People will go to see the movie.
No one goes to see "the star" anymore.
I can see it now, Indy (Ford) jumps ( or prehaps hobbles) into the doctor's TARDIS & is transported to present day Syria in order to find Pandora's box, hidden somewhere under the rubble that was Palmyra, before the ISIS johnnies get their hands on it & leash evil into the world.............again.
I'm not so sure Hollywood thinks like that. Brand is the key - brand and familiarity. That can be a franchise or a big name. I'd hope they'll pick an unknown who can doa credible Ford impression, but who knows?
Came to this thread a little late, but I must say, Hear, hear!I don't want to see Indiana Jones in a post-1957 world. Beyond that, it gets too far into an era where the cinematic traditions Indy pastiched don't carry, and I don't want to see them give him gadgets or make him a Bond, or a sidekick.
The Indy stories I'd still like to see would be those in the era still left untouched by screen Indy: the years 1938-56, including his years working with the US military against the Nazis, what happened at the Roswell incident, and what he was doing in the early 50s.
I'm not sure whether I don't want to see another actor playing Indy, or whether it's Disneyfied Indy I don't want to see...
I'd give it a go, I think ,if they got a really good Harrison Ford impersonator (a la Karl Urban's imitation of Deforrest Kelly), but otherwise, no, let it rest.... Of course, Disney didn't buy the property to not make money out of it, so new films are inevitable. I just hope they can cut straight to Craig, without having to go through Lazenby, Moore, Dalton and Brosnan first. Inevitably, Indy will be just that little bit less cool if they can't manage that levle of quality and make-believe that it's Ford. I could have accepted somebody else in any of his roles, but Indy is just too indivisibly him to be anyone else. I don't believe for a minute it would have been half as good with Tom Sellick.
"Steven Spielberg will direct Harrison Ford in the untitled fifth installment in the action-adventure franchise, which will open July 19, 2019, Disney announced Tuesday." -- http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-announces-fifth-indiana-jones-875794
Hmmm. Harry will be 77 in 2019. And in great shape, no doubt. But I'm wondering how the plot will work. If we consider that the character Indiana Jones was born in 1899, then when he reached his 70s, he would have been living in the 1970s. "Indiana Jones and the Watergate Break-in"? "Indiana Jones and the Disco Ball of Doom"? "Indiana Jones and the Introduction of the Pocket Calculator"? "Indiana Jones and the Last Plane out of Saigon"? (That last one might work.) In other words, the Golden Era aesthetic would be completely shot. How can they realistically keep the 1930s-1940s-1950s iconography alive AND have Harrison Ford playing Indy? Yes, yes, time travel has been hinted at. I hope they are very careful with the elements that we fans cherish.
Where they could credibly involve Ford as he in now, of course, would be to use him as a framing device.