Disney eventually completes the development of an Indiana…
Unsurprisingly, Disney has started working on a television series about Indiana Jones forDisney+. Today, Variety claims that the Mouse House is holding general discussions with artists who have ideas for a film based on the most legendary, whip-cracking fedora-wearing character in cinematic history, and is searching for a script to bring the world’s most battered archeologist to the small screen. Presumably, the fortunate author receives extra credit for adapting a tale that neatly fits into a two-hour movie into a six-, eight-, or ten-part series. There are still few details because Disney is unsure.
Indiana Jones 5, which is expected to be Harrison Ford’s farewell film as the character and needs a lot of tie-ins and sub-properties to be a success, is another factor weighing heavily on the business. A Disney-produced Indiana Jones film would be pointless unless it could lead to other opportunities. All we can hope for is that the show will ultimately deliver on Mutt Williams’ promise to be Indy’s replacement.
It is anyone’s idea as to why this took so long. Disney might be concerned that, similar to what happened with Solo: A Star Wars Story, people would not accept yet another youthful Harrison Ford impersonator. But unlike Han Solo, Indiana has previously been portrayed by a number of performers. In addition to the three from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles—Corey Carrier (ages 8–10), Sean Patrick Flanery (16–21), and George Hall (93)—there is, of course, River Phoenix from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It was a fair assumption made by the creators of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles that the protagonist would live into his nineties, traveling the world and encountering historical personalities such as Woodrow Wilson, John Ford, Leo Tolstoy, and Pablo Picasso. Additionally, George Lucas has story credits on multiple episodes of Carrie, unlike this new series.
