DETOUR

Indiana Jones has hit a rough spot on the road to his third movie.

The script by Chris Columbus (“Gremlins”) supposedly didn’t pass muster at Lucasfilm (no comment from the Columbus camp on the reject) and Menno Meyjes (Oscar-nominated for “The Color Purple”) is now hammering out a new version.

Meyjes has had the assignment a while, his agent told us, but has only gotten to it the past month. He’s been “distracted” by working on the adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s “Empire of the Sun,” about a 12-year-old boy surviving in Shanghai during World War II, also a project for Steven Spielberg.