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11 Oct

Gal Gadot Will Play Cleopatra in Patty Jenkins Movie

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Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman 1984 has yet to reach theaters, but the director-star team has already found their next project: a modern Hollywood epic about the life and times of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator, the final pharaoh of the Ptolemy line and in ancient Egyptian history. As broken by Deadline, Gadot and Jenkins auctioned the new Cleopatra movie off to Paramount Pictures in a package that includes a screenplay to be written by Laeta Kalogridis. Additionally, Charles Roven, who was a producer on Wonder Woman, is attached via Atlas Entertainment. This is a major casting coup…

12 Jun

Cleopatra and the First Time 20th Century Fox Almost Died

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Spyros Skouras was a practical man with a dream. As a finance-minded studio executive who made his bones in the industry as a frugal theater owner during the Depression, Skouras was looking for a safe bet when he asked producer Walter Wanger to remake the story of Cleopatra on a budget of $2 million. It didn’t work out that way. Nearly 60 years after Elizabeth Taylor rode into Rome on a sphinx, the gaudy, extravagant, and moribund epic that is Hollywood’s most iconic Cleopatra remains the stuff of legend—and perhaps hellish nightmares for studio execs with greenlighting powers. What was…

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Gal Gadot Will Play Cleopatra in Patty Jenkins Movie

Cleopatra and the First Time 20th Century Fox Almost Died

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