Author James Reston is considering legal action against director Ridley Scott and movie studio 20th Century Fox after concluding that Scott’s latest epic, Kingdom of Heaven, is based directly on Reston’s 2001 book, Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. The book was pitched to Scott as a film idea in late 2001, but Scott turned it down, and claims never to have read the book.