Indiana Jones and the Chariots of the Gods?

Take this with the usual grains of salt, but CHUD.com says it has heard from an insider on Indiana Jones IV:

‘Belloq’ also tells us that the opening action scene of the film will pit Dr. Jones against Russians agents in Area 51 – which is interesting, as this is a major similarity to the Frank Darabont draft that confirms my belief that much of what was in that script has made its way into what will be filmed this summer. . . .

I’m holding back some details, but from what ‘Belloq’ tells me, and from my own quick reading through the Darabont draft, I would say that the main storyline remains roughly the same – it involves crystal skulls and takes its cues from Chariots of the Gods.

Oy vey. It’s one thing for Steven Spielberg to put allegorical Moses figures and Christ figures in UFO movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kid (1977) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), but if this film goes the Erich von Däniken route — suggesting that all the world’s religions were reactions to visits from outer space — then that would be far, far too literal. Then again, it is always possible that the film will point beyond the sci-fi stuff to something truly mystical or supernatural. (It is probably hoping too much to wonder if the film might go in the direction of C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, but that’s the sort of thing I’m thinking of.)

Either way, maybe this will explain how C-3PO and R2-D2 turned up in the hieroglyphics in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).