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Not Paramount's Cleopatra

posted 4 years ago by Satan2016 (23353)
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This is listed as Sony.

https://deadline.com/2020/10/cleopatra-gal-gadot-patty-jenkins-movie-deal-paramount-pictures-wonder-woman-reteam-laeta-kalogridis-writing-1234595246/

Sony Pictures and producers Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin have for years developed an adaptation of the Stacy Schiff biography Cleopatra. Angelina Jolie was attached and Lady Gaga was later rumored for a possible coronation following her Oscar-nominated performance in A Star Is Born. The list of potential directors has included James Cameron, Denis Villenueve and David Fincher. The film has been through many rewrites, last from David Scarpa. I hear most recently that Eric Roth is working on it, meaning there might be a footrace here between Sony and Paramount to go first.

[–] bozo_500 (12227) 4 years ago

From trivia
This film version shouldn't be mistaken for the one being produced by Paramount Pictures with director Patty Jenkins and leading actress Gal Gadot as Cleopatra. This particular film version from Sony Pictures is based off the Stacy Schiff's novel which Paramount's take is based off of historical mythology.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914843/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16180) 3 years ago

Yeah that's not confusing at all.