Tom Selleck was originally going to be Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Yes he was. If it weren’t for the fact his Magnum PI contract was a bit restrictive, he would have been, too. Instead, Harrison Ford got the job.
But Selleck did audition for the role. Look, here”s his screen test – with Sean Young instead of Karen Allen. Fun, huh?
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
