I could have used any number of glamorous pictures of Chris Pratt on a red carpet to illustrate this post, but I like this 2013 photo of Pratt and Adam Scott eating whipped cream straight from the can a hell of a lot more than any of those photos.
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  • I could have used any number of glamorous pictures of Chris Pratt standing on a red carpet to illustrate this post, but I like this 2013 photo of Pratt and Adam Scott eating whipped cream straight from the can a hell of a lot more than any of those photos.

This morning, the big geek news was the Fantastic Four reboot teaser trailer, which looks to me like a wholesale ripoff of Christopher Nolan cliches, from the Interstellaresque voiceover and image of a car racing along cornfields to the beyond-tired Inception-style soundtrack. I was thoroughly unimpressed, and I was surprised to see so many commenters on various sites apologizing for the lack of ingenuity on display in the trailer. Just because it's based on a comic book doesn't mean you have to apologize for it, people. It's 2015. Everything is based on a comic book.

So I'm relatively happy that this rumor-filled report from Deadline claiming that Disney is considering Chris Pratt to play Indiana Jones in a continuation of the series pushed the Fantastic Four trailer off the nerd internet's radar.

But I also think this is not necessarily very good news. I really like Chris Pratt. He's funny, he's charming, he's good-looking, and the camera loves him. But I'm seriously worried we're about to enter Peak Pratt, where he gets cast in every comic-action role, whether the role is right for him or not. Indiana Jones is a tricky character. He's self-effacing, sure, and Pratt is excellent at self-effacing humor. But he's also a bookworm. And he's good at acting tough when he needs to. It's a pretty wide range. I'm worried that Disney executives just think of Pratt as their go-to Han Solo type now that he's starred in Guardians of the Galaxy. That's unfortunate, because Pratt wasn't the Han Solo of Guardians of the Galaxy. Rocket Raccoon was the Han Solo of Guardians of the Galaxy. Pratt was a slacker Luke Skywalker, and Pratt is perfect at that sort of thing at this stage of his career. If he can make Indiana Jones into the first step of a new stage in his career—the seasoned wiseass, rather than the wide-eyed everyman—nobody will be happier than me. But I'm just not sure if Pratt it at that stage yet.

But this is all speculation based on a rumor, so my opinion doesn't matter. What matters is your opinon.