Deadline are reporting that Paul Greengrass, he who direct last year’s GREEN ZONE and the last two Jason Bourne movies, may be up to direct the high profile, Scott Rudin produced CLEOPATRA 3D movie.
The trade reports that the film is set to star none other than Angelina Jolie and is based on Stacy Schiff’s biography Cleopatra: A Life.
Rudin described the planned flick, which apparently will be completely different from the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor movie:
“It is a completely revisionist Cleopatra, a much more grown-up sophisticated version. 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.” He told the blog.
