28 February, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

TODAY: HARRISON FORD ONE-ON-ONE…

Harrison Ford sits down with Today show host, Savannah Guthrie to talk 1923, Indiana Jones, and what’s next for the Hollywood icon at 80-years-old. Ford shares his feelings on his storied 60-year career in film, and why the late foray into television, closing the chapter and shelving the book on his second career iconic role of Indiana Jones, and why he has no plans on quitting acting.

“The idea of not working doesn’t make much sense to me. It’s really where I feel most alive,”
Harrison Ford, Today with Savannah Guthrie, February 3, 2023

Harrison Ford talks with Today show host, and journalist Savannah Guthrie about his storied 60 year career that featured iconic roles in "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones," and about his foray into television with Paramount+'s "1923" and why he's not done yet in Hollywood. Photo Credit: Today Show/ NBC Universal

Ford discusses everything from playing an adventurer (Raiders of the Lost Ark), to a space pirate (Star Wars), to even a doctor accused of killing his wife (The Fugitive) and how in all that resume filler for six decades, he’s never been on television in a role until now. He explains that there was a time when television had a different reputation for film actors and was often seen as a negative move career wise, that as changed in recent years with the atmosphere and caliber of television has shifted with streaming now in the mix. In in the mix of streaming is where you will find Harrison Ford in not one, but two television series streaming on two different platforms. Ford is starring in Shrinking on AppleTV+ and 1923 on Paramount+ and tells Savannah what it was like taking on the roles at the age of 80, and if this means he is slowing down his career with television, and moving out of film. Ford discusses how its quite the contrary, he doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon, in fact, Taylor Sheridan can sign him up for a season two of 1923, because he’s ready to ride!

(L to R) Harrison Ford talks with Today show host Savannah Guthrie about his storied 60 year career that featured iconic roles in "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones," and about his foray into television with Paramount+'s "1923" and why he's not done yet in Hollywood. Photo Credit: Today Show/ NBC Universal

Directed by Steven Spielberg, Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, Story by George Lucas, and Philip Kaufman, Produced by Frank Marshall, Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, with Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe, and Edited by Michael Kahn, with Music by John Williams, Production company: Lucasfilm Ltd., and Distributed by Paramount Pictures. (1981)

Directed and written by George Lucas, Produced by Gary Kurtz, Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, with Cinematography by Gilbert Taylor, and Edited by Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew, with Music by John Williams, Production company: Lucasfilm Ltd., Distributed by 20th Century-Fox. (1977)

Directed by Andrew Davis, Screenplay by Jeb Stuart, David Twohy, Story by David Twohy, Based on "The Fugitive" by Roy Huggins, Produced by Arnold Kopelson, Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Andreas Katsulas, Jeroen Krabbé, with Cinematography by Michael Chapman, and Edited by Don Brochu, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Dov Hoenig, Richard Nord, Dennis Virkler, with Music by James Newton Howard, Production company: Kopelson Entertainment, Distributed by Warner Bros. (1993)

Genre: Comedy-drama, Created by Bill Lawrence & Jason Segel & Brett Goldstein, Starring: Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Christa Miller, Harrison Ford, Theme music composer: Benjamin Gibbard and Tom Howe, Composer: Tom Howe, Country of origin: United States, Original language: English, No. of seasons: 1, No. of episodes: 10, Executive producers: Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein, Neil Goldman, Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer, James Ponsoldt, Randall Keenan Winston, Producer: Kip Kroeger, with Cinematography by Jim Frohna, Editors: James Renfroe, Katie Abel, Missy Hernandez, Peggy Tachdjian, Running time: 29–37 minutes, Production companies: 3 Chance Productions, Corporate Mandate, Doozer Productions, Warner Bros. Television, Original network: Apple TV+. (2023)

Harrison Ford as Dr. Paul Rhoades in season 1 of the Apple TV+ series, "SHRINKiNG". (2023) Photo Credit: Apple TV+

Genre: Crime drama, and Western, Created by Taylor Sheridan, Starring: Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Isabel May, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Timothy Dalton, Narrated by Isabel May, with Composers: Brian Tyler, and Breton Vivian, Country of origin: United States, Original language: English, No. of seasons: 1, No. of episodes: 8, Executive producers: Taylor Sheridan, John Linson, Art Linson, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, and Ben Richardson, with Cinematography by Corrin Hodgson, Ben Richardson, and Robert McLachlan, with Editors: Chad Galster, Byron Smith, Christopher Gay, Brooke Rupe, and Todd Desrosiers, Running time: 47–69 minutes, Production companies: 101 Studios, Linson Entertainment, Bosque Ranch Productions, and MTV Entertainment Studios Release, Original network: Paramount+. (2022-)

Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton in season 1 of the Paramount+ series, "1923". (2023) Photo Credit: Paramount+

Creator and writer Taylor Sheridan attends the "1923" Las Vegas premiere screening the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas on December 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo Credit: David Becker/Getty Images for Paramount+

Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton in the Paramount+ series "1923." Photo Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+ © 2022 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ford stars in the Yellowstone Universe television series alongside a familiar face and wife, in film that is. While Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford star as husband and wife ranchers of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch in the 1920s on television, Ford and Mirren have played husband and wife before in the 1986 film, The Mosquito Coast, adapted from the book of the same name.

Series Season 1 poster for the Paramount Network original series Yellowstone featuring Kevin Costner as John Dutton III, created and written by Taylor Sheridan. Photo Cr: Paramount Network © (2018-) MTV Entertainment Studios. All Rights Reserved.

(L to R) Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton, and Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton in the Paramount+ series "1923." Photo Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+ © 2022 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.

(L to R) Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton, and James Badge Dale as John Dutton Sr. in the Paramount+ series "1923." Photo Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+ © 2022 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.

(B to T) Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren in the 1986 Warner Bros film, "Mosquito Coast" Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Studios

Directed by Peter Weir, Screenplay by Paul Schrader Based on "The Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux, Produced by Jerome Hellman, Starring: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory, Martha Plimpton, with Cinematography by John Seale, and Edited by Thom Noble, with Music by Maurice Jarre, Production company: The Saul Zaentz Company, Distributed by Warner Bros. (1986)

"The Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux (1981) The paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox uproots his family from their New England farm to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. An individualist, Allie sees modern America as wasteful, immoral, and messy. Fleeing from materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. Told by fourteen-year-old Charlie Fox, who observes his father with a mixture of love, astonishment, and ultimately horror, The Mosquito Coast is a twisted Swiss Family Robinson or an ironic take on Robinson Crusoe. For as Allie becomes ever more lost to reality, this utopian experiment takes a dark turn as his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger. ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0618658963 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books Classics; Reprint edition (June 1, 2006) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780618658961 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0618658961 Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 720 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.97 x 8.25 inches Best Sellers Rank: #155,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,422 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #1,876 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #9,502 in Literary Fiction (Books)

Sure, Ford will talk to Guthrie about all of his upcoming work, but don’t ask him to look back and reflect; Ford says he doesn’t do much of that, even though his wife, “Ally McBeal” star Calista Flockhart, would like him too. “(That’s) the direction she wants me to go,” he said. “But I’m too busy trying to figure out what I’m doing right now.”