Angelina Jolie’s Cleopatra Epic still remains without a director, but now it seems that Sony is in talks with James Cameron to helm the film.
Sony and James Cameron are now in serious talks over a highly ambitious, large scale 3D ‘Cleopatra‘ movie, with Angelina Jolie attached and anxious to star. Based on Brian Helgeland’s (‘Robin Hood’, ‘Green Zone’) adaptation of Stacy Schiff’s forthcoming book Cleopatra: A Life, Sony are planning a historical epic the likes we haven’t seen since, well, ‘Cleopatra’.
Helgeland’s work is being described as a “brilliant script deserving of epic treatment” all about “what the Romans took from Egypt” and it’s clearly caught the fancy of Sony co-Chairman Amy Pascal, who is fast tracking the PG-13 project to shoot next year.
The Book on which the script is derrived from is one that shows a different side of Cleopatra that we are not familiar with. The book was written not as fiction, but based on real historical discoveries about Cleopatra that would disolve the myths of her sexually promiscuity.
The Elizabeth Taylor version of the film from 1963 nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox after going 20 times over budget but finally showing a profit saved the studio from financial crisis despite critics tearing apart the film.
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