Montana Smith
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chicago103 said:This is like pondering that Cary Grant would have been a better James Bond originally than Sean Connery, the character is already defined by the first actor. Actually with Indiana Jones it is even more pondersome because unlike Bond there has only been one adult Indy in Harrison Ford and also unlike Bond the Indiana Jones movies were straight to screen and were not novels before hand so literally Harrison Ford was the first impression anyone outside of those imagining and casting ROTLA have of Indiana Jones. There is no basis for comparison.
That's precisley how I view this as well. Harrison was as much the shaper of the character as Lucas, Speilberg and Kasdan. Harrison's annotated script, pages of which Rocket recently posted here, is evidence that Harrison was active in molding the character that we came to know as 'Indiana Jones'. Anybody else taking over the adult role will have a mountain to climb, and it may take several movies before they become accepted (if they get the opportunity to make those other movies).