Udvarnoky said:
Yeah, I don't really buy into the "soft reboot" idea. Some things are just binary.
Spielberg has said point-blank that he would not. Then again, I recall Harrison Ford stating point-blank that Indy wouldn't have a child in Indy 4 (I think this was in the 2002-2003 arena). I also recall Spielberg saying point-blank that he and Janusz Kaminski would "swallow their pride" and honor Doug Slocombe's lighting style in the fourth movie. They certainly keep us guessing!
Indy would've been better off without a child to be honest. I've always liked the Saucerman version of the script. Some marriage of that, with the City of Gods script, would've made for an epic movie. Both involve no son. I would also have preferred Marion not to come back. Not because I dislike her; I just think Indy should have a different girl every movie.
Speaking of Marion, am I alone in wanting to see Indy V take a dark turn? Recall one of his influences, Bond, and Vesper. It would be interesting if the subplot of the movie was revenge (whereas the subplots of LC and KOTC are rescue). Revenge for Marion's death. He and Marion are in the process of finding an important artifact together in the beginning, and this man intercepts them, in a fashion similar to Belloq (always one step ahead), and in the ensuing battle for the artifact Marion gets shot. Indy is able to get out of there alive, and chases this guy of his own accord across the world. In the end, he kills the guy, and gets the artifact, looks at it, and for the first time, tosses it away to history. We see him at the end come home and hang up his hat. Something like that. The hung up hat could be the final shot of the film - something more definitive for Harrison's Indy than the ending of LC (where he could perhaps have many more adventures, off in the wide blue yonder) and KOTCS (Which allows for more adventures since he explicitly takes his hat from Mutt).