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Lucy Nicholson—Reuters by [Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly Jan 28, 2015 12:42 PM UTC You’re Chris Pratt. You’re 35\. You just headlined a critically acclaimed megablockbuster built almost entirely around your rugged, scruffy, handsome-yet-still-somehow-everyguy charms. You also voiced the lead role in _another_ critically acclaimed megablockbuster. Both those movies will have sequels—so that’s steady work coming your way. Coming soon is _Jurassic World_, the reboot of a beloved franchise, a movie where you get to look cool riding a motorcycle through a pack of velociraptors. Maybe you’ll get to make a sequel to that. (_The Lost Park: Jurassic World_?) Pretty soon you’ll be filming a western with Denzel Washington. Every time you show up on a late night talk show, the whole notion of “late-night talk shows” gets resurrected from oblivion. Channing Tatum really, really wanted to surprise you with a _Ghostbusters_ origin prequel, the 2015 movie-star-bro equivalent of surprising your college roommate with a road trip to Tijuana. When you go home at night, you can watch yourself on the final season of _Parks & Recreation_, a show that basically let you spend seven years stealing scenes from very funny people. Also, you’re married to Anna Faris. So what do you do next? Maybe Indiana Jones? Well, you’re in luck, Fake Chris Pratt Who Has Time To Read Blog Posts: _Deadline_ reports that Disney [is considering](http://deadline.com/2015/01/chris-pratt-indiana-jones-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney-1201360637/) hiring you for an in-the-works reboot of the _Indiana Jones_ franchise. Is this a good idea? Is this a bad idea? Is this just a studio just kind of ambiently considering casting everyone’s favorite person of the moment in a big-name role? Let’s consider the case for and against: **Good Idea:** Pratt in _Guardians of the Galaxy_ was the Han Solo figure we’ve been waiting for after a generation of Skywalkers. He’s funny! He’s a scoundrel! He’s not the chosen one with a mystical parent destined to save the universe from the forces of darkness? Well…actually he _was_ that last part—but it’s a testament to Pratt’s genial charm that his Peter Quill felt like a real human being even when the movie occasionally wedged him into a capital-letters Hero’s Journey. And this is precisely what Indiana Jones calls for: Someone with the easy charm, the manly poise, the authentic guy-ness of early ’80s Harrison Ford. Like Ford, Pratt’s history is the story of a guy working hard to get his moment in the sun—and if Pratt doesn’t have anything on his résumé like Ford’s “I was just a carpenter, man” origin myth, he _does_ have [the Scooby-Doo Maui Van-House](https://www.facebook.com/PrattPrattPratt/photos/a.737716166260215.1073741827.116470741718097/821188521246312/?type=1&theater). Pratt has _character_, something a lot of equivalently aged action dudes seem to lack. (_Cough cough_ Sam Worthington _cough cough_ Jai Courtney _cough cough._) That would go a long way to making a new _Indiana Jones_ a more attractive prospect—especially considering that a Disney _Jones_ would probably feature no Spielberg, no Lucas, no Ford, or any of the creative people who made one great _Indiana Jones_ movie, one good _Indiana Jones_ movie, one weird _Indiana Jones_ movie, and one ungodly terrible _Indiana Jones_ movie. **Bad Idea:** You could frontload the argument by pointing out that part of Pratt’s charm is rooted in his character’s simplicity. But Indiana Jones is an archaeologist and a college professor: You completely believe it when Ford puts on his nerd-glasses, and there is something enthralling about listening to his Indiana Jones spout historical-mythic exposition. We should also remember that Han Solo and Indiana Jones are—in small but pivotal ways—very different characters. Part of the key to Ford-as-Solo is how he seems to be slightly ridiculing all the woozy cosmic melodrama around him. (“Absolutely, _Your Worship_.”) Ford-as-Indiana is funny, too, but he’s also much more of a classical romantic hero. Could Pratt do this? Would he even _want_ to? There are also more general career implications here: The question of how many franchises a single man should carry. The more specific question of how many _Disney_franchises a grown-up would want to carry. And at least one hyper-specific-for-Chris-Pratt question: Should a Steven Spielberg franchise with one great movie and at least one terrible movie actually even _get_ rebooted, _without_ Spielberg? 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