Angelina Jolie set for Cleopatra film

[Prison Mike]

Bellucci played Cleopatra before? I would love to see that!

 

[dark_b]

you need to watch the funny Asterix and Obelix movies.

ohhhhh i forgot on SHH we only watch hollywood movies.

 

[Bad Superman]

I hope it's in 3-D. . . . . .

I hear some posters hissing. . . . .

Hey, it's Angie in 3-D!!!!




*Runs away before the flames reach him*

 

[green]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/14/could-james-cameron-direct-cleopatra-before-avatar-2/

Cameron? Yes,please.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Do we really need another Cleopatra film? Her story has been done to death. I never understood the fascination with her anyways. She just happened to be the one in charge when the Romans took over and she romanced Caesar & Antony. Caesar, Antony & Octavian are the important ones in this story. There are other strong female leaders that were far more important and interesting than Cleopatra.

 

[Mindvacancy]

Angelina Jolie is not a good choice for anything, unless Brad Pitt is in some equal or opposite role in the movie.

Plus is it just me or do her lips look like she is the real life version of Mrs. Potato head... its like they were made 2 sizes to big and stuck on her face with little care as to the over all result.

besides my two cents a Cleopatra movie might be decent if the studio can resist making Cleopatra more than what she was (if I see any jumping or head turning towards the camera and running sequences in the trailer, im going to be mighty disappointed)... a woman with power when most of the world was run by men...

 

[dude stannis]

YES! Brian Helgeland on his worst day can write 100 times better than Cameron has for his past two films. This is exactly what Cameron needs. Please do this Cameron.

 

[Two-Face]

Angelina Jolie is not a good choice for anything

Have you seen these films?:
Changeling
A Mighty Heart
The Good Shepherd
Wanted
Taking Lives
Beyond Borders

 

[Ratcrawler]

Maybe Angie will pull a Charlize Theron in Monster?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

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[GhostPoet]

I suppose this might be ok...but I still want to see a movie about the rise (and fall) of David. I mean, that story has freaking everything.

 

[dude stannis]

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She looks like my cousin.

 

[Passdom]

Sounds more like Sony wants Cameron to do this and they are drumming up the publicity.

I doubt Cameron will accept either way. There's no reason for him to ever have to direct any one elses scripts at this point in his career (not that he ever has before anyway). He has the luxury to do whatever he wants, I would be surprised to see him work as what would essentially be a director for hire.

Either way, the irony is hilarious, considering how the media were labeling Camerons Titanic as the modern Cleopatra

 

[Bunker]

Ugh. Can't he just make Battle Angel already?

 

[Ajendo]

Monica Bellucci was a hot Cleopatra

Monica Bellucci is just hot. Period. I remember feeling guilty whilst watching POTC because all I kept thinking about how I wanted to plow Belluvvi's Mary Magdalin (sp?)

 

[Ajendo]

I suppose this might be ok...but I still want to see a movie about the rise (and fall) of David. I mean, that story has freaking everything.

Yeah but hollywood are to pu**y to touch biblical events nowadays.

 

[dark_b]

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ra-and-the-future-of-3-d/?partner=rss&emc=rss

''There’s been some discussion in the industry trade publications that you’re contemplating a 3-D Cleopatra film that would star Angelina Jolie. Where do you stand with that?

There’s a Cleopatra project in work, meaning that it’s been in development at Sony. And it’s a subject that’s always fascinated me. So yeah, I’ve been talking to them about it but no decisions have been made. But it sounds hot, doesn’t it? I mean, Angelina Jolie and Cleopatra? To me, that’s like a slam dunk. Whether I wind up doing it or not, I think it’s going to be a great project.''

 

[Laderlappen]

I hope Cameron doesnt make a Cleopatra film. Does seem very interesting to me.

 

[GhostPoet]

Yeah but hollywood are to pu**y to touch biblical events nowadays.

I know...real shame. the story of David is pretty much rated R material...so, that's another reason they wouldn't make it.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Monica Bellucci is just hot. Period. I remember feeling guilty whilst watching POTC because all I kept thinking about how I wanted to plow Belluvvi's Mary Magdalin (sp?)

Acronyms are great but can be confusing

POTC : Pirates Of The Caribbean
POTC : ( The ) Passion Of The Christ

 

[GhostPoet]

Bellucci would have made a way better Cleopatra for sure.

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

Why would Cameron waste his time with a movie like this.

 

[Two-Face]

Or why Jolie want to do this remake?

 

[TruerToTheCore]

It's not a remake

 

[green]

http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/fil...-paul-greengrass-get-this-mega-directing-gig/

Filmmakers "Pretty Close" On 'Cleopatra': Will Paul Greengrass Direct This Mega-Gig?
By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday January 4, 2011

Producer Scott Rudin reveals to Deadline that "we're pretty close" to pinning down a director for his mega-high-profile Sony Pictures 3D movie Cleopatra starring Angelina Jolie and based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff’s biography Cleopatra: A Life. Rudin isn't spilling but we hear that the filmmakers "like the idea" of the much respected Paul Greengrass although his name hasn't even been mentioned yet to Angie who's attached. Greengrass, who helmed the most recent two Bourne franchise action thrillers as well as Green Zone and United 93. He also flirted with doing the 3D Fantastic Voyage for producer James Cameron, who himself flirted with directing the 3D Cleopatra for Rudin. Love it when these things come full circle. We're obsessed with this project and think Greengrass would be an intriguing hire, perhaps less about spectacle and more about story. "Smart, tough, political, hard-nosed...," an insider described the director to Deadline. "Sort of the idea of Cleopatra in the book." Not a bad thing considering that the last time Hollywood tried that subject of Cleopatra on a grand scale, back in 1963, it nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox.

So why will this version fare better? "It is a completely revisionist Cleopatra, a much more grown-up sophisticated version," Rudin recently told Mike Fleming. "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." Of course, Cameron was seriously discussing Rudin's pic before taking that huge deal at Fox to direct the two Avatar sequels. Did Rudin feel leveraged? "No," he tells Fleming. "I’ve been a good friend of Jim Cameron’s since I was the executive on Aliens. I got promoted because of my relationship with Jim Cameron and the guy’s been a seminal figure in my career. I never for one second thought we were being leveraged. I fully expected Fox to make the play they did, to make sure he didn’t do Cleopatra. I wasn’t surprised when they did."

Rudin, who acquired the Schiff book, is producer. Deadline has had the scoop on this project all along, from Cameron's interest, to Jolie anxious to make the movie, to Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chair Amy Pascal deciding to fast-track this PG-13 and 3D Cleopatra after screenwriter Bran Helgeland wrote what is being described as a "brilliant script deserving of epic treatment" about the "greatest female heroine" and "what the Romans took from Egypt". Sony has been hoping for a start date in 2011 and readily acknowledges that the pic "won't be cheap". In fact, Pascal is calling this her Gone With The Wind epic. Indeed, a project of this size and scope is a huge risk for any studio, especially considering how much attention will be focused on the production and the last time Cleopatra was made into a movie with a starting budget of $2 million budget that ballooned to $44 million (the equivalent of over $300 million today) not the least because Taylor became ill and almost died. Still, the production was that year's highest grossing pic with $26 million.