Disney and Lucasfilm Looking to Develop an ‘Indiana Jones’ TV Series

Disney+ has been a place for the company to extend the already wide-reaching tentacles of the various franchises under its umbrella.

We’ve had a bevy of ‘Hawkeye and all sorts of other offerings for family audiences from Pixar, Disney Animation and others.

One notable exception – at least so far – has been Lucasfilm’s ‘Indiana Jones’, which in recent years, been confined to the big screen.

That, it would appear, is set to change. According to Variety, Disney and Lucasfilm are in the very early stages of exploring a new series set in the world of Dr. Jones, though given that they are only now meeting with writers to explore concepts, nothing is known about what this could be.

Given how much use Disney tends to get out of its various titles, it’s not out of the question that other writers and directors could re-cast Indy, even though that would meet with plenty of online backlash – as with the rumors that he won’t do it.

It would seem nigh-on impossible for any series to be built around Harrison Ford as Indy, since the actor has firmly stated that he’s done slapping on the famous fedora and handling the whip. So, we are once again facing the possibility that someone else will play Indiana Jones.

It has happened in the past on TV – ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles’, which ran for two seasons between 1992 and 1993 saw Sean Patrick Flanery playing, as the title suggests, a young Indy. The shows were retooled into TV movies later.

But the history of the franchise stretches back to the late 1970s, when Steven Spielberg hatched an idea for a movie about an adventurer inspired by the radio and movie series they loved when younger.

The result was the second iconic movie character for Ford after ‘Star Wars’ Han Solo. ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ in 2008.

Incoming is a John Rhys-Davies, who returns to his role as Sallah from both ‘Raiders’ and ‘Last Crusade’.

The new movie will be in theaters on June 30th next year.