Ridley Scott and the ancient religious sites

I like ancient history and mythology and archaeology, so I get a small kick out of the news that Ridley Scott is attached to direct Stones, a “supernatural thriller” the development of which is currently on hold due to the writers’ strike. Variety reports:

Project is a big-scale supernatural thriller revolving around the mysterious destruction of ancient religious sites around the world. It turns out that Stonehenge is the tie that binds together artifacts that still have primeval powers.

[Screenwriter Matt] Cirulnick got the assignment after scripting “Elysium” for New Regency, a film that weaves Greek mythology into a drama. He fixed on the idea that Stonehenge, the great pyramids and other artifacts were built for a specific unified purpose. . . .

Scott, who currently has two movies on the big screen — namely American Gangster and Blade Runner: The Final Cut — will direct this movie after finishing Body of Lies and Nottingham. Let’s just hope Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which reportedly may also link a few ancient religious mysteries together, hasn’t stolen too much of Scott’s thunder by then.