Oscar winner Angelina Jolie is attached to star in the "Cleopatra" movie that Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin has been developing since 2006, according to USA Today.
As for who would play Julius Caesar in the movie, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff's ("Cleopatra: A Life," which the movie would be based after) was stumped, but she did say that Jolie's partner Brad Pitt would be a "no-brainer" to play Marc Antony.
The closest the Salt star has come to playing this kind of part was her regal turn as Colin Farrell's mother (despite a one year age difference) in Oliver Stone's Alexander
Elizabeth Taylor originated the role in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Cleopatra," which was the highest grossing film in 1963 yet lost money for 20th Century Fox due to its then-enormous $44 million budget. More recently, director Steven Soderbergh was developing a 3D musical version with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Jackman, Ray Winstone and a score from Guided By Voices, but that production was put on the back burner when Sony pitched "Moneyball" to the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who swung and missed the chance to direct.
Not sure how I feel about this, so we shall see... Are there not enough women of color actresses to play Cleopatra? I mean she is African...Think about that...
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