There must be somebody out there who looks like a young Harrison Ford. If he can't act or doesn't sound right, just have Harrison Ford dub his lines.
Or explain somewhere in the movie that Indiana Jones has always suffered from body dysmorphia that gives him a distorted image of his appearance and this is why he looks different in his own flashbacks.
Look at Laurence Olivier in old age, killing people in Marathon Man, getting into a fight with Gregory Peck playing Josef Mengele in The Boys From Brazil. Marathon Man started with two elderly drivers killing each other in a low-speed chase through the streets of New York.
There was child actor Mark Lester's movie, Eyewitness, where his grandfather karate kicks a cop down some stairs and kills him with his own gun. His grandfather wasn't as old as Harrison Ford, of course, but hadn't been in as good a shape as he was to begin with.
Clint Eastwood has played violent old people.
When he played an aged private detective in The Late Show, Art Carney would flick the hearing aid out of his ear before shooting at people. It was a nice touch.
In Jim Jarmusch's movie Ghost Dog, I liked the elderly Mafia guys setting out to murder people. If they had been younger, I'd just want them exterminated and, if they were real people, I'd want them locked up immediately so they could suffer for their crimes before it was too late.
But I hear the computer de-aging thing they did doesn't work terribly well. But it's only an Indiana Jones movie.
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