Steven Spielberg to look to the stars once again for Paramount?

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some Steven Spielberg news for ya'. Now before you start waxing on about this being the nail in INDIANA JONES 4's coffin, let me say up front that this project doesn't even have a script yet and by all accounts is at least 3 or 4 years away from happening. If INDIANA JONES 4 is dead (and if it ever really was alive to begin with), this ain't the project that killed it.

The film in question is a Paramount flick, as yet untitled, dealing with physicist Kip Thorne's studies and theories into the field of relativity, specifically black holes and gravity waves. So, it's Science Fiction that boarders on Science Fact. Thorne wrote the treatment himself and Spielberg wants in. Sounds like fascinating stuff. Could this be Spielberg's 2001? Or will it fall to the side of the road like MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, with Spielberg producing for another director? I guess we'll find out soon enough.