It looks like Steven Soderbergh has decided to tackle the story of Cleopatra in the stylings of a rock musical. We get the scoop from our friends at Latino Review:
For his next directing effort, Steven Soderbergh is plotting a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra. He is courting Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the Egyptian queen and Hugh Jackman to play her lover, Marc Antony.
The music has been written by the indie rock band Guided by Voices, and the script is by James Greer, a former bass player for the band and an author. While Soderbergh has recently done a spate of wildly different projects, this one will be his first full-blown musical.
International friends, I’m not sure how you feel about musicals. I generally dislike them, but will from time be surprised and enjoy a musical greatly. Bing Crosby’s song and tap movies are fantastic and I recently enjoyed Sweeney Todd quite a bit. Now this idea does sound ridiculous, I cannot deny it; but I’ m curious to see if they can pull it off.
Catharine Zeta Jones as Cleopatra rules. I think having her in exotic period garb will be the cause of legions of boners across the globe. If you could harness all of that boner energy I think you could power Singapore for a week. I think few actresses are as delicious as the Zeta Jones, and having her play the legendary Queen is an excellent choice. Liz Taylor, I have a feeling that you may be upstaged.
I hope the soundtrack features the Iron Maiden song Powerslave. It’ s an Egyptian themed song, and oddly enough in the past when I have listened to it; I envisioned Zeta Jones (as Cleopatra) having sex with a Rooster Man (human with a head of a rooster). This rooster being was known to me as Roostor Al Ak’atta Sulgruth the Plunderer.
Talk about Deja Vu.
