A few weeks ago, rumors moved through online circles that Disney was planning to reboot the Indiana Jones series with a new series of films starring someone other than Harrison Ford as Dr. Henry Jones Jr.

I totally expect this will happen.

I don’t think it’s likely that Pedro Pascal, currently an industry darling and starring in “Fantastic Four: First Steps,” as well as upcoming Marvel movies, will be cast in the role of the adventurous archeology professor. For one thing, Pascal is 50 years old. Ford was 39 years old at the time of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” I think it’s much more likely that Disney will cast someone in their 30s in a remake. They want someone who could keep a movie series alive for a decade or more.

That said, if “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” had been a hit in 2023, we’d be seeing now-83-year-old Ford in continuing adventures.

But Hollywood and Disney have – sometimes more successfully than other times – long ago decided it was okay to recast and remake and reboot.

There’s been attempts to reboot the series before, or at least introduce younger versions of Jones and younger characters who could step into the role. But it didn’t work with Shia LaBeouf as Indy’s long-estranged son in 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” – remember how the character started to place Indy’s hat on his head before the original reclaimed it? And it didn’t work with Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena Shaw in “Dial of Destiny.”

We’ve seen how some film series made recasting and rebooting work. Some handled it better than others, such as in the James Bond films. The “Star Trek” films did well with it too, at least at first. Disney and Lucasfilm tried it with the “Star Wars” films in a series of movies that worked fairly well but were harshly received by fanboys.

I’m only certain that Disney will reboot Indiana Jones at some point and will recast Indy.

Unless the practice of punching Nazis falls into disfavor.