Chris Pratt Says He Won’t Play Indiana Jones

For many years, fans have wondered when – not if, but when – Disney would reboot the Indiana Jones franchise with a new cast member. Harrison Ford was last seen as the character in 2008 Crystal Skull Kingdom, when Ford was already 66 years old. Surely that was his farewell to Indy, and someone else would take the felt and the whipping, right?
Bad. Ford has finally returned for a fifth Indiana Jones, which is currently in production and slated to hit theaters next summer. (Ford, by the way, just turned 80.) Before Indiana Jones 5 finally came together, there were all kinds of rumors that Disney was considering Chris Pratt as a potential Ford replacement.
But if there was ever any truth to those rumors, Pratt says there isn’t anymore. Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Pratt jokingly said he was fear to play the role, based on something Ford said. Here is Pratt’s quote:
All I know is once I saw a Harrison Ford quote and I don’t even know if it was really him but it was enough to scare me it was like , ‘When I die, Indiana Jones dies.’ And I’m like, “Am I going to be haunted by the ghost of Harrison Ford one day where he’ll die if I play…?
Here’s the interview that Pratt is referring to, where Ford was on Today’s show and we asked who he would like to see as the new Indiana Jones. ” You do not understand ? I am Indiana Jones. When I left, he left.
Very little is known about the plot of Indiana Jones 5 but the producers have made one thing clear: this is not a film about the introduction of a new Indiana Jones. In 2020, producer Frank Marshall said, “There will only be one Indiana Jones [in the movie] and this is Harrison Ford. There is no Old Man Indy looking back to his youth, where he is played by Noah Centineo. You do not understand ? Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones!
Indiana Jones 5 The theatrical opening is scheduled for June 30, 2023.
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