Disney+ Thinking About An Indiana Jones Show

Like it or not, we’re getting a fifth Indiana Jones movie starring a super-old Harrison Ford who will knock around commies with his walker or cane. But beyond that, the IP will still be valuable (assuming the movie isn’t so bad it tanks the whole thing), so what will Lucasfilm do next? Reboot?

Such a move would go down easier if it was delivered in a different form. If, say, there were to be an IJ TV series, no one would expect Mr. Ford to be on it since he doesn’t work for a TV salary. Thus, Variety reports that Disney is thinking of developing an Indiana Jones Disney+ series.

There are two things to keep in mind: one, having a character everyone loves doesn’t always equal success. The show itself has to be somewhat good. A Star Wars show about Boba Fett should’ve worked perfectly, but instead people responded much more positively to a completely new character with a similar mask and a green infant to shepherd.

Two, you younger readers may not be aware of this but this would be the SECOND Indiana Jones TV show to exist. The first was called “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” and aired on ABC in 1992. The show was a prequel that followed either a boy Indy or a teenage Indy depending on the episode. Harrison made a cameo in one solitary scene, and that’s all they could get from him. The series briefly came back for a quartet of movies on the Family Channel years later.

Would this proposed Disney+ series be Young Indy again? Or would it star Indiana as the age he was in Raiders, having adventures between the timeline of the established movies? We’d say Disney should do the latter because the former has been done already, no matter how long ago. There’s no word on when the Indiana Jones show could happen, or even if (it’s not a done deal yet).