Well it would be an odd numbered Indy film so it would have to have some tieback to Christianity and he would have to be fighting Nazis. Its the pattern.

BTW. i sense that Master George would include Jar Jar Binks in the movie. :D

Maybe we found out that Indy is actually Han Solo, which suffered amnesia whan Millenium Falcon crashed onto the Earth, a long time ago. :D

I think this time Indy should fight Illuminati who want to destroy ISS with LHC made black hole. He will be supported by his son who discovers his homosexual nature, and black muslim lesbian woman.

Everyones happy !

The Jones Boys go on a search for the Lost treasure of the Incas. The Nazca lines could be part of a map pointing the way. Or, they could search for Atlantis from clues found in Cairo that Sallah dug up. C'mon guys, let's keep the ideas within the realms of possibilities.

Indy goes to end the evil reign of George Lucas before he destroys the Star Wars franchise with Episodes 1...

Please no ET's and yes Marion and Sallah!! Inca treasure? Maybe, but please no more aliens or CGI b's

They just need to reboot this series. Put Matt Damon in the lead role with a new writer and director. Also, Indiana Jones should just be trapped in the 30s forever. That time frame works best for this character.

How about staying on the topic of the film?
If you want to add politics, genocides,& name-calling, join the U.N!

As for the proposed 5th movie, unless they're going to cgi Harrison Ford, I think we'll be stuck with Communist bad guys.
Of course if you really gotta have Nazi's, there's always the ones who escaped to South America after the war!

Add Mutt Williams to your list of what you don't want to see.

It could be Indiana JONAS, starring the Jonas Brothers ...think of the built-in audience!!

Hopefully, it won't be an equally stupid premise.

I agree with whoever it was that said the setting needs to stay in the 30s, though. I really don't like when stories are pushed into modern day--a good part of their charm comes from the period they are supposed to be in--the clothing, the venues, etc.

Ok remembering that this Indiana Jones is a fun movie and not suppose to be this big political debate.

So @ Scube, I agree, dont need Mutt.

To all who want nazis, again with the nazis, I can be happy with or without them because they all die anyways.
How about commies or even better, lets go to China, see what happend to Short Round, see what happen to the Shang Hai mob, its not like theres not a story there, besides if theyre going to have Indy face aliens might as well make him do Kung Fu....thats a joke please dont take that as insensitive remark to the franschise.
Speaking of the franschise, ummmm I think I can live without the 4th movie and skip to the 5th.

Want to see: Jet Li as Short Round!

I only have 7 words for you: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Nazi?!?

Here's an idea: try a "new" villian from the appropriate era that would make for a good story.

I know that writing good stories has apparently vanished in Hollywood, but c'mon!

Indy will be old enough to hire John J. Rambo by the time this comes out.

Forget Shia and move it forward about ten or more years and use Nathan Fillion as Indie's son he's the only other actor I can see pulling off a Indiana Jones like character.

They forgot to include the vine-swinging monkeys & "Mutt" as things we could do without.
Lucas can do pretty good stories as long as he doesn't try and include the kiddy toy angle (which gave us Ewoks, Jar-Jar, Temple of Doom, Howard the Duck....). The McGuffin doesn't matter as long as the story is good. Raiders and Last Crusade were better movies because the story & dialog were better, NOT because the McGuffin was a Christian/Jewish relic that western civilization was familiar with.

As long as George Lucas has nothing to do with it, I'm game!

Well, since it's an odd one; it'll probably be fairly decent. first one good, second one sucked, third one good, fourth sucked - fifth could be promising....

Instead of Nazis or Commies, movie it about 10 years forward and have an even older Indy battling Hippies!

What I want to see?

The Snark. Time to bring back the bite of Indiana Jones, and as much as I love Speilburg HE NEEDS TO GET OVER THE ANTI-GUN THING! Indy guns down the swordsman in the street, and says "Come on Marcus you know what a cautious guy I am" and tosses his .38 into his suitcase.

Mr. Spielburg....for indiana Jones...please drop the line from you production Bible that says "No guns, and if they do have guns they cannot work, or fail at a critical moment"

"It's really about the script" - If that's true then Speilberg shouldn't let Lucas anywhere near the movie. As afr as the article writer's suggestions for Indy 5, he's just looking for a remake "The Last Crusade". How about asking for an original story instead.

George, leave indy alone!!!!!!

I am all for a reboot of the franchise as well. If they want to keep making Indy movies, that's all fine and well, but seeing Harrison Ford continuing to play the rol as a geriatric adventuring archaeologist is just not that great an idea anymore.

After the first fifteen minutes of Crystal Skull, the nostalgia factor had worn off on me and I began to pick up on all the things that were wrong with that movie. And one of the main things wrong with it was that Indy was OLD.

Is this what it's come to?

Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Geritol?

Indiana Jones and the Alzheimer's Curse?

Indiana Jones and the Colostomy Bag From Hell?

Meh. Harrison Ford was great as Indy for 3 movies but Indy is a pop culture icon. He shouldn't be getting older and we shouldn't be seeing his adventures as a married man with his wife and kid. Once Indy's anchored down by the trappengs of a nuclear family, it's time to hang up the hat and ride off into the sunset.

If they're going to keep flogging this dead horse, I'm all for a reboot. Recast everyone and just start over.

Someone earlier mentioned Nathan Fillion as Indy and I think that would be a fantastic choice-the man is charming, has perfect comic timing, is handsome and athletic. And his emotional range is strong enough to carry the role.

As for the locale, do something with Asian or African history. And keep it in the 30s or 40s.

I like Shia but that Mutt character just did not work. Fillion would actually rock in the Indy Jr. role. Atlantis might be interesting. Or El Dorado.

Once again many are missing the point of an older Indiana Jones, this would be a whole new angle to the man. No one wants to see Indy become a feeble character, that is understandable. But one more go around with Ford playing the character should not be based upon his age. All these people hung up on age are in for a rude awakening, we all get older but that doesn't make an individual irrelevant. Especially an actor like Harrison Ford and a character like Indiana Jones. In fact, the idea of Indy trying to settle down and being dragged into another adventure, believing probably himself he is too old to be getting involved in some high stakes situation is rather appealing.
I also agree, if they want to continue the franchise, they could go with Nathan Fillion as a latter day Jones in the present, taking up where his great grand dad left off. But first let's see if they get Indy 5 off the ground and go from there. Also I agree with Crosis 101, more gunplay. Indy needs to shoot some bad guys - that's who he is. Considering how obessed everyone is with his age it would actually make more sense than fisticuffs.

Nazis are the best bad guys! How about in the waning days of WWII Odessa discovered the ruins of Atlantis. They have established a base there and have bee lying low well into the 50's, researching the weapon of mass destruction that can cause massive seismic/volcanic upheavals around the globe and led to the downfall of Atlantis.

Indy and company track down Atlantis through shrewd archaeological skills. They must beat the Nazis and stop the weapon from going off and destroying a large portion of North America.

The Atlantis angle will allow the writers to play with Greek mythology this time around, which could be fun.

I say reboot the whole thing with Sam Worthington as Indy. He has the acting chops and after Avatar and Clash of the Titans, should have the star power to drive a new set of films.

The Lost City of Atlantis is the only "MacGuffin" left that would have mass appeal and would be epic enough to top any Indy before it. And as far as I know the Nazis were also in search of it (you could have post-WWII Nazi criminal masterminds trying to use the "power" of Atlantis to rebuild their regime).

Since Indy drank from the Holy Grail, he could be immortal......

What is it with peoples obsession with Nathan Fillion on this site and in Sci fi general. Did you make him your nerd commander or something? All hail Fillion! jk, let's have some real suggestions. They just need a really great story and script. With that I think the characters from the 4th and the acting can fall in place.

If they bring back Sallah, make sure he gets another chance to do what he didn't in Last Crusade: break out into a Gilbert and Sullivan song!

Hmm, new bad guys for Indy..... what about organized crime? The Italian Mafia or Japanese Yakuza?

They could do something with Nazi's in the beginning as a flashback and have the Brazilian exiles later.

No..........wait........... Indy finds the Stargate before the Nazis Can

They may have to bring back Mutt because, sadly, LeBeouf is what brought in all the teen girls that kept the Skull financially afloat. I agree, Indy is done. Let him retire.
No rebooting.
HEY HOLLYWOOD! How 'bout something original? I'm about nostalgia'd out. All these movie sequels and remakes and reboots just remind me I'm getting old.

Fillion as Indy the Third/Grown up Mutt is a good idea.

Atlantis is a clear choice. other possibilities would involve Indy the Third getting involved in the civil right movement and ending up in Africa where he runs into the lost platoon of Nazi's who did not get the memo that WWII is over and they lost.

Another would be to have Indy in Japan, where someone who is very bitter about the destruction of Hiroshima wants revenge on the West. He's trying to raise the Dragon of the Elements to lay waste to America and Indy must stop him before it's too late. Short round grown up would be a nice touch.

lol I like that idea!!

Indy finds the Stargate before the Nazis can.

Or even better! Indy obtains the DHD before the Russians can, eventually leading him to the Stargate!!

Indiana Jones and the Eye of Ra

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

whoever said matt damon should take over as indy needs to go back to whatever ole he/she was in. HARRISON FORD IS INDIANA JONES. PERIOD. i don't mind mutt so much as i minded them making marcus an idiot, or john hurt a dolt. i mean, c'mon, how do you make john hurt stupid? it's sacriligeous! (lol) marion would be fine, sallah i could take or leave, although he is the best sidekick indy ever had. i always wanted to see indy meet up with jack shannon, from the novels, ecxept they hadn't seen each other for a long time and jack would be fully integrated into the mafia. jack, having been on adventures with indy before and having an interest in the unknown would be married to sophia hapgood (fate of atlantis) and she would be looking for atlantis. in the middle of all this could be indy, mutt and jack vs. rival organized crime syndicates and throw in some sexual tension between indy, sophia, and marion for kicks. The mafia would just be looking to sell atlantean stuff for $, but someone in there would have some kind of world dominating/ending aspirations for the jones' to foil. oh yeah, and the god machine from atlantis. gotta have that too. no returning of willie or short round! and for God's sake, let's keep in more serious like Raiders or Last Crusade!

I loved the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and so did a hell of a lot of other people around the world, judging by the nearly $800 million it took in, so the negative, nay-saying opinion of a few internet haters doesn't really amount to much. These are the same people who hate everything, but who couldn't write a script to save their lives, much less a cohesive argument against Crystal Skull other than just saying, "it sucked". No, haters, it is you who suck, OK. And you are not convincing anyone that Harrison, George and Steven should not make another Indy film... The money has spoken! So, until you can write something better than all the movies you say, "suck", just shut the hell up, already.

As for the constant argument I hear against the "aliens" in Crystal Skull (actually, they were inter-dimensional beings) and that aliens are not "believable" and don't belong in an Indiana Jones film, and that only christian or jewish artifacts make good McGuffins, I'd say, you people need to stop playing video games and crack a freakin' book once in a while... The Gods of nearly every single ancient religion CAME FROM THE SKY! In other terms... THEY WERE ALIENS! FYI... Chritianity and Judaism stole nearly every single aspect of their religion from much older texts. They are merely the religion du jour. The Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant are no more believable than the Crystal Skull, except that there really are crystal skulls and I've never seen the Ark or the Grail... not even a picture. So, again, SHUT UP! You're embarrassing yourselves by your constant display of ignorance.

Sorry, I've just had enough of these dork ass haters on every single comment page, who have no life and have never known the touch of a member of the opposite sex, but who, in their infinite wisdom, decry every single action Hollywood giants like, Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, make.

As for a possible story idea, I think that Atlantis is the best untapped myth that has yet to be explored by our intrepid archaeologist. Not that Indy has to put on diving equipment and do an adventure movie under the sea, if you've looked into the myth of Atlantis, the evidence for it's existence is all over the planet; in ancient writings, in the pyramids found in Egypt an Central and South America, in the Egyptian reference to "The First Time". Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock have done extensive work on this lost epoch of human history and their findings would make a great backdrop for the ultimate Indiana Jones adventure.

The last two Indy flicks were about bringing a family, who had drifted apart over their differences, back together. First, it was Indy and his dad, then it was Indy and Marion and their son...how about a story that transcends the differences between our fractured HUMAN family of man that shows that, originally, we are all descended from the same seeds. That we have a common ancestry that has been forgotten in time (whether deliberately by priests and bankers who use these manufactured religions and map lines to keep us under their thumb and doing their bidding, or by an ancient catastrophe which destroyed that ancient civilization and sent man scrambling for his very survival, losing much of the knowledge he had acquired so long ago). I think that if this is going to be Indy's last adventure (or one of the last), then, dammit George, Steven and Harrison, make it so good that these internet haters have nothing bad to say about it... make it so good that those who don't know that today's religions are the mere shadows of much older beliefs and myths, possibly from a time when mankind did inhabit a land called Atlantis, and, as Plato said, who had it all but became greedy and began to fight with and conquer his neighbors to feed their greed and how that lead to their destruction. A lesson that people today need to take to heart, as we race towards our own ends, like Atlantis before us.

I apologize for the length...just had to get this off my mind.