In September, Deadline reported that Warner Bros was interested in courting Spielberg to helm Gods and Kings from a screenplay by Michael Green and Stuart Hazeldine.  Apparently their take rather ambitiously follow old Mo from birth to death, including the Biblical plagues and the parting of the Red Sea.

With a story of that scope and ambition, it's not terribly surprising that the studio, as well as producers Dan Lin and Matti Leshem, would want to the biggest director in existence to ensure that the film not only gets made, but gets made right.  Now, Twitch is reporting that the interest is reciprocal, with the director of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Schindler's List enterting negotiations with the studio.

Spoielberg hasn't directed a feature since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008, but this December sees the release of two films from the Bearded One: the motion-capture 3D popcorn jaunt The Adventures of Tintin and the WWI drama War Horse.  Those two hit theaters just days apart, and Spielberg's already working on his next project, Lincoln, which adapts a portion of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

That film, starring Daniel Day Lewis as the 16th President of the United States, will likely be followed by Robopocalypse, a science fiction blockbuster written by Drew Goddard and based on the novel by Daniel H. Wilson.  In September, we learned that Fox and Dreamworks would team up to finance Robopocalypse.

It's unclear just where Gods and Kings would fit into Spielberg's busy schedule if he does commit to directing.

Speaking of Old Testament epics, Darren Aronofsky is currently hard at work on Noah, his passion project based on around Biblical flood. Paramount and New Regency are financing that would-be epic, with production tentatively set to being in the spring of next year.