Has Spielberg passed on his TRIAL to Paul Greengrass?

The Writer's Strike ended any chance that Steven Spielberg had of quickly putting together two movies in quick succession like he did in late 2004/early 2005 with the, meaning his cool sounding project The Trial of the Chicago 7 has been on hold since the Spring. You may remember this was the movie that was allegedly to star the great cast of Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Smith, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Spacey & Jeff Daniels, depicting the the famous protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. However there is some talk of a project resurrection today. Production Weekly have listed The Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass to the project hinting that pre-production is to begin soon. Has Greengrass got hold of the project or is it just an error somewhere down the food chain of the online site?

Greengrass is currently in post production on his next film the espionage thriller Green Zone with Matt Damon, with only a potential fourth movie in the Jason Bourne series on his upcoming slate over at Universal. If Greengrass has managed to keep the majority of the cast that Spielberg was courting interested, then he could have one hell of a movie on his hands here. Aaron Sorkin's (Charlie Wilson's War, A Few Good Men) script is said to be solid, we already know that Greengrass is solid too. Fingers crossed this story is true because knowing how busy Spielberg is, he may never get around to this one. source - film school rejects