How Tom Selleck Feels About Missing Out On The Indiana Jones Franchise

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When Harrison Ford first signed on to play Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," he was a little bewildered by the vision. Creator George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg's original concept for Indy had Ford asking questions such as "Why am I wearing a leather jacket in the jungle? Isn't it hot here?" and "What am I going to do with a f*****g whip?" The idea was, of course, to evoke famous adventurers of movies past, with Lucas emulating the style of the 1930s and '40s serials on which he grew up. But Indy's now iconic look also had clear antecedents in Humphrey Bogart's Fred C. Dobbs from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and Charlton Heston's Harry Steele from 1954's "Secret of the Incas." In fact, the similarity betw