There Can Only Be Harrison Ford For Indiana Jones

May 21st, 2008 Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp

… and Johnny Depp for Captain Jack Sparrow.

What do Indiana Jones and Captain Jack Sparrow have in common? These two big screen movie characters are what Spiderman, Batman, Superman and James Bond are not.

They can’t be played by actors other than the ones who originally played them.

There can only be Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and Johnny Depp for Jack Sparrow and until and when these two actors are no longer fit to play the characters, movie producers ought not take other actors to play the archeologist Dr Jones and the pirate Sparrow.

You can have Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig and Sean Connery as Agent 007, or James Belushi or Val Kilmer for Batman but try imagining Russel Crow as Jack Sparrow, or Brad Pit as Indiana Jones…

That is just how unique and original the two on-screen characters have become.

Jack Sparrow is about the same age when Indiana Jones left the scene after The Last Crusade some 20 years ago.

But we know now Dr Jones is coming back very soon with the fourth installment of the epic adventure, this time titled “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, with the same creative brains that has made the mother of all adventure movie exactly what it is — the mother of all adventure movie.

“I was happy to do another one just because they’re so much damn fun,” says Ford.

Ford is 65 going on 66 in July but Ford said Dr Jones was still fit. Having watched the Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Temple of Doom and the Last Crusade countless times, I definitly look forward to the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.