Eclipsed perhaps only by his role as Han Solo in the Star Wars films, Harrison Ford will always be best known for taking up the whip as Indiana Jones, with the original trilogy and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull all being directed by Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg was the king of Hollywood in the 80s and 90s, not only with the extremely successful Indiana Jones, but other game changers such as Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List.
Spielberg nearly cast Ford in roles for those latter films, parts that later went to Sam Neill and Liam Neeson.
Then there was the Spielberg and Ford pairing that wasn’t a nearly but an actually, when Harrison Ford filmed a part for perhaps Spielberg’s biggest movie ever, 1982’s E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial.
There is an intriguing backstory about how this came to be, but though Ford shared the screen with Henry Thomas’ Elliott, Spielberg…