Angelina Jolie Bath

Angelina Jolie Bath

Angelina Jolie Bath

Angelina Jolie Bath

 Angelina Jolie Bath

Angelina Jolie is attached to play Cleopatra. The film is based on Stacy Schiff’s biography Cleopatra: A Life about the famous queen of Egypt. Producer Scott Rudin (The Social Network, True Grit) was developing the project.

The film is going to be shot in 3D so who better to turn to than James Cameron. Deadline have the news that Sony Pictures Entertainment are in talks with Cameron.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chair Amy Pascal decided to fast-track its PG-13 and 3D Cleopatra project after screenwriter Bran Helgeland wrote what was is being described as a “brilliant script deserving of epic treatment” all about “what the Romans took from Egypt”. In addition, Pascal wants to own the Angelina Jolie franchise the same way it owns the franchises of Adam Sandler and Will Smith because “she’s a real star who can open a movie by herself” and “she knows she was born to play this part” because it’s the “greatest female heroine” that ever lived. Pascal is hoping for a start date in 2011 but has acknowledged that “it won’t be cheap” and is calling this her Gone With The Wind epic.

Basically they think this film is going to be huge.

Schiff has said about Jolie as Cleoptra, physically, she’s the perfect look, and is hoping for Brad Pitt to play Mark Antony. “Angelina Jolie radiates grace and power, exactly the qualities that Stacy Schiff finds in her biography of the most intriguing ruler who ever lived,” the book’s publisher, Little Brown’s Michael Pietsch, told reporters.

Jolie has said in the past, “I haven’t done a historical epic of that nature and she’s always been fascinating to me because I feel like, as much of her story has been done big, it’s never been done accurately. Not that any movie can get history perfectly well. There is no universal truth to history in some films, but you can get closer and I feel there’s a lot that has been unexplord about her. But there’s a lot that would have to come together for that to work.”

“I will play it differently to Elizabeth Taylor, but I could never be as lovely as she was. We are trying to uncover the truth about her as a leader and not just a sex symbol which she really wasn’t — she didn’t have many lovers, maybe only two, and they’re men she had children with.” Angelina has said she was stunned by what she learned when she started researching Cleopatra. “She was misunderstood and her life story was written wrongly. I always thought her life was very glamorous. Then I read her story and found a different side to her – that she was a mother, leader and an intellect who spoke five languages! Her upbringing also reflected her relationship with Rome — all that is much more interesting than what she was summed up to be.”