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Indiana Jones
was born on July 1, 1899 according to TheRaider.net.
Harrison Ford will be at least 61 by the time they film the
4th movie. If you make Indy the same age, the year is
1960.*
Indy in the '60s?!?
Ford may have been the star of the Indiana Jones series but
his costar was the 1930s. The clothes, the cars, those
"goose-stepping morons." Can you really picture an aged Indy
riding in a VW bus? Holding a sit-in? Foiling the plans of
Fidel Castro? And no one wore Fedoras after Kennedy.
Sure Ford can do one more movie. Heck let him do three more.
But they need to keep the Nazi era setting. No matter how
old Ford gets, Indy's top age is 45. Face it, someday Ford
will be too old to be Indiana Jones circa WWII.
Just like 007, what they ought to do is recast the role.
Many people thought Sean Connery was the only possible Bond
but his departure did not kill the franchise. Indiana Jones
is a great character, whether played by Harrison Ford, River
Phoenix or Sean Patrick Flanery.
Sean
Patrick Flanery,
who played Indy on television, will be 37 this year -- the
same age as Ford was in Raiders. Indiana Jones fans liked
Flanery in the role on TV and would probably follow him to
the cinema.
When all is said and done, they shouldn't end the series
because Harrison Ford gets old. As Yoda says, "There is
another."
*In the July
14th issue of The Washington Post, Harrison Ford confirmed
that the 4th movie will be set in the 1950s.
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