As Superman is to superheroes, Steven Spielberg is to directors.  He's the biggest, the most immediately identifiable by the vast majority of moviegoers, and he's the first guy people think of when they hear the word "director."  It makes a certain kind of sense, then, that the biggest director around would be attracted to one of the biggest stories ever told.  According to Deadline, The Bearded One is nearing a deal with Warner Bros to direct Gods and Kings, a new take on the tale of Moses that frames the Old Testament figure principally as a warrior.

If you're looking to tell an epic tale, then look no further than the Old Testament story of Moses, from his being set afloat on the Nile River as a pup though his personal chats with Yahweh to the liberation of his people from their oppression in Egypt and possibly including a forty year trek through the desert. 

If you're doing a new take on Moses, it's going to have to stack up against The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. Demille's three hour and forty minute 1956 epic.  So who could possibly deliver an appropriately massive new version of Moses' story?  How about Steven Spielberg, who, according to an as yet unconfirmed rumor, is in talks to direct Gods and Kings.

We have been without a new Steven Spielberg movie since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull back in 2008, which itself came after a several year dry spell.  This December, though, the Bearded One comes back in a big way with The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse just four days apart.  It's the beginning of what will hopefully be a prolific period from one our finest living directors, as Spielberg is also preparing his long-in development historical drama Lincoln starring Daniel Day Lewis as the 16th American president, and he's planning on following that up with the large-scale science fiction film Robopocalypse.  Spielberg shared some information on these two wildly different projects, touching upon Lincoln's "procedural" aspects and the Robopocalypse timeframe.

To the majority of audiences, Steven Spielberg isn't a director, but is the director.  As Superman is to superheroes, so is Spielberg to contemporary directors; his bearded face is the first that springs to mind at the mere mention of the word.  For the first time since 1993, we'll see two Spielberg-directed films hitting theaters this year, a mere eight days apart, and he's currently prepping his take on one of the most venerated figures in American history, but what comes after that?  In all likelihood it will be the large-scale science fiction tale Robopocalypse, as 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks Pictures will be teaming up to co-finance the sure-to-be pricey production.

Steven Spielberg is back taking on a massive production as he is scheduled to direct Robopocalypse, a Drew Goddard-scripted adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson novel. The story revolves around the human race’s attempt to survive as robots take over the world. While it may sound a bit similar to the Terminator franchise, Spielberg will certainly create a film that is uniquely his own.