I was reading a story from Variety through Coming Soon, and something just lept out at me.

Ryan Eslinger has snagged Sharon Stone to star in his $2 million independent project When a Man Falls in a Forest, and he's also penning a script for her to direct, reports Variety.

Tell you what Sharon, you star in this little independant and you can have your own movie to direct. Now I don't want to blast someone before they've proved themselves, and at times I do think that Stone has shown some talent, but she does repeat the same performance over and over again and you have to wonder what kind of Director she would make considering all the projects she's learned on.

Stone is attached to play an unhappily married woman who shoplifts to relieve her suffering. The woman is one of four sad, middle-class characters living in a small town in the Midwest.

In a separate project initiated by Stone, Eslinger is penning a script for the actress to direct. Eslinger said the screenplay's scientific theme has echoes of his Madness and Genius.

Okay, so this sounds like it isn't one of those repeat performances. Yet the screenplay she's going to direct has a scientific theme. It sounds like a gamble for Stone for sure.