Hot off his first success in a long time, Ridley Scott is lining up another big-budget movie to follow American Gangster. Variety says Fox 2000 has brought him on to direct a supernatural thriller called Stones.

Written by Matt Cirulnick (who once wrote for The Slim Shady Show), Stones revolves around Stonehenge and the mysterious destruction of ancient religious sites around the world. Mysterious, primeval powers are involved and Stonehenge is at the center of everything.

Stonehenge stopped being cool to me about the same time that my interest in the Loch Ness Monster died off. I think it was when I turned 5. I guess Ridley Scott is still wearing big boy pants, and he’s found something interesting in it. I hope the movie has druids. Druids are cool.

Right now Stones is on hold until the WGA strike is resolved. Don’t worry, Ridley has plenty of other movies to work on. He’s currently filming on an Iraq pic called Body of Lies, and he still has that Nottingham movie to do with Russell Crowe. If that falls through, after the success of American Gangster with gangbangers, pit bull owners, and guys who idolize Scarface he should be able to make a pretty good living selling Denzel Washington posters at flea markets if he has to.