Now this has re-ingnited my interest in all this conjecture. Not wishing to bull you up or anything Aaron but thanks for sharing a snippet of what you know of the Darabont script. Personally i wish if they'd gone with it, based purely on the likely high standard of the dialogue and development of the character in a deep and interesting (and hopefully darker, brooding, cynical even) manner that this writer would achieve; a development I feel is vital for this film, given the ageing of the character and the vast possibilities this presents.
True, the list of films in a similar vain is somewhat bizarre, worriesome even, but surely we dont want Indy IV to be a mere re-hash of its predecessors? I'd trust the screenwriter in particular to make it work somehow, and be true to the spirit of the original trilogy.
One of the many things i'm interested in is the level of action, stunts, set pieces etc in the script, as this is an area of concern for me and many others I feel. Can you shed any light? How did it compare in intensity to the previous three??
Also, I've long had the idea of the last part of such a quest would have Indy destroying the Garden - or in this case the Gateway - but from the inside. Perhaps this is the twist to which you refer Finn? Ho ho. As such, our Hero remains inside, or on the other side. The final view would be the light of the explosion intensifying as we look through the gateway, and as it does so that legendary silhouette is emphasised, and simply turns around and walks away from our view as the light becomes blinding. That'd be a decent grand finale I think! And he wouldn't be dead as such, which would of course always leave that little, tiny speck of a possibility of Indy V...