The next Indiana Jones could be played by a woman when Harrison Ford retires from the franchise, Steven Spielberg has suggested.
Ford first appeared as Indiana Jones in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and went on to play the character in three further sequels, most recently 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
When quizzed on who might don Jones’s famous fedora and whip, the director said that it was time the character took “a different form”.
Nodding in response to the suggestion that said form could be female, Spielberg added that “we’d have to change the name from Jones to Joan. And there would be nothing wrong with that.”