3) There’s Plenty Of Scope With The Story
With Lucas out of the picture, what you won’t have on Indiana Jones 5 is a repeat of the protracted pre-production of Crystal Skull. On that movie, plenty of story ideas were thrown around, with whole scripts being written (by the likes of Frank Darabont and Jeff Boam) and then nixed by Lucas, who pushed for his aliens movie to the end, before the film he wanted finally got made. This time, it’s apparently Spielberg’s final decision. And he has a lot of good ideas to choose from.
In the time between Last Crusade and Crystal Skull, dozens of great stories were discussed for the next Indiana Jones movie. The character just lends himself to all manner of action-adventure scenarios.
Spielberg could either go with an original one for Indy 5, or he could take his pick from abandoned Indy 4 plotlines: the Atlantis story, the one with the pirates, or the one featuring the ex-Nazis on the hunt for Dr. Jones.
The world is Spielberg’s and Dr. Jones’ oyster.