Steven Spielberg on the star who almost played Indiana Jones: ‘We wanted Tom’

Steven Spielberg on the star who almost played Indiana Jones: ‘We wanted Tom’

Spielberg reveals Tom Selleck was selected to play Indiana Jones in 1981 but lost the role when CBS's Magnum PI contract made him unavailable, with Harrison Ford eventually cast in the franchise that became Hollywood's biggest success. For tech leaders, this exemplifies how exclusive contractual constraints eliminate top candidates and force pivot decisions—a parallel to vendor lock-in and the "opportunity cost" of rigid partnership terms.