It has just been announced that the fifth (as yet untitled) Indiana Jones film will be released in 2020.  If it films in 2019, Harrison Ford, who is expected to star in it, will be 76 years old.  In his last outing in 2008, in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Ford was "only" 65 years old but still looked embarrassing as an action hero, with pants riding really high above his waist. Playing Indiana Jones at 76 will be truly ridiculous.  It is true that Ford played Han Solo in The Force Awakens, filmed when he was 71, but that was not nearly as athletic a role as Indiana Jones.  Indiana Jones beats up people with a whip, and through hand-to-hand combat.  Indiana Jones swings by vines and climbs up disintegrating bridges.  Indiana Jones does not sit in a senior center eating Jell-O and playing bingo. Really, they should recast the role.  But the problem is that there are no male action heroes.  A lot of...(Read Full Post)