With a 5th Indiana Jones movie planned and Disney seeking high-profile content for its upcoming Disney+ streaming service, it is high time that Indiana Jones once again graced the small screen. And what more perfect vehicle for that than a rebooted Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

The original series starred a 10-year old Indy and a teenage Indy and featured Indy’s travels and adventures during World War I.

For the new series, the timeline will shift forward to the 1920’s, with Indy in graduate school at the Sorbonne in Paris. This will allow Indy easy access to locations across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

The Cast

Garrett Hedlund as Indiana Jones

With Chris Pratt too big for TV now, Hedlund is the next best choice for TV Indy. In the show, Indy leads a double life as a graduate student by day, adventurer by night/weekend.

Karen Gillan as Marion Ravenwood

Gillan is already part of the extended Disney-Marvel-Lucas family, having starred in Guardians of The Galaxy and the Avengers. According to the Raiders of the Lost Ark novelization, Marion was only 14 years old when Indy began a relationship with her.

Gross.

In the new series, she’ll be aged up to 22, and be an undergrad in a class that Indy is TA-ing, keeping some of the forbidden love dynamic.

Amr Waked as Rene Belloq

In the Raiders novelization, we also learn that Belloq was Indy’s graduate school foe and that he plagiarized an essay that Indy wrote, which later won him an award. The plagiarism plot line will drive the graduate school conflict for the season and Belloq will also start turning up in some of Indy’s after-hours adventures.

Hugh Laurie as Marcus Brody

Marcus is an assistant curator at a museum in Paris and will keep a watchful eye on Indy as a surrogate father figure.

Sean Connery as Henry Jones Sr.

Well duh. Connery makes a surprise cameo in the season finale cliffhanger.

The Plot

The show is a mix of adventure-of-the-week episodes and a season-long story line involving Indy’s search for the legendary sword Excalibur.

Indy is not the only one searching for the sword of course.

A shadowy group has enlisted Belloq to trail Indy so that they can seize the sword for themselves. Not surprisingly, the group turns out to be a precursor Nazi organization, which will tie in nicely to the new films.

Disney execs, if you like what you see, drop me a line.

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