Already in development and starring Angelina Jolie, it is rumored that Paul Greengrass is in the running as director, though producer of
Cleopatra Scott Rudin will not spill the beans who else is being considered as yet.
It is a completely revisionist Cleopatra, a much more grown-up sophisticated version," Rudin said. "She's not a sex kitten, she's a politician, strategist, warrior. In the Joseph Mankiewicz movie, Elizabeth Taylor is a seductress, but the histories of Cleopatra have been written by men. This is the first to be written by a woman. It felt like such a blow-the-doors-off-the-hinges idea of how to tell it, impossible to resist. We're pretty close. A lot of directors want to do it, but there is only a handful we'll make it with.
Cleopatra will be a PG-13 rating and be in the 3D format, also Sony Pictures is hoping for a start date this year and also quoted this picture "wont be cheap" meaning the sheer scale of the whole production will be very big.
The original
Cleopatra from 1963 starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton cost a massive $44 million to make.
LEEE777 - This sounds a masterpiece in the making and I don't know about you but casting Angelina Jolie was pure genius for this role. This movie could turn out bigger on the epic scale than such movies like
Gladiator &
Troy etc, time will tell and looking good. By the way $44 million is the equivalent of over an astonishing $300 million for today.