A couple of weeks ago “Shamook” posted this deepfake montage of Chris “cheeseburger with fries” Pratt as Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
It’ll probably never happen, but this at least suggests that Pratt could physically step into those Indy boots at a moment’s notice. The problem is that Pratt’s screen persona is too lightweight, too “just kidding.” Unlike Ford, he’s refused to establish gravitas cred by making middle-class, real-world movies — he insists on making only high-paying fantasy or franchise crap. He’s never even delivered the kind of solemn emotion that Ford managed in that carbon deep-freeze scene in The Empire Strikes Back. Plus he doesn’t have that Ford’s grumbly deep register voice. He just doesn’t have it. A poor man’s Ford at best.
Not too many months ago Ford allegedly told a Today interviewer that “nobody is gonna be Indiana Jones! Don’t you get it? I’m Indiana Jones. When I’m gone, he’s gone. It’s easy.”