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Angelina Jolie's 'Cleopatra' Is Between Directors
Columbia's epic 'Cleopatra' is proving to be as treacherous as its legendary subject. While Angelina Jolie was long-ago attached to star in the film, the studio is having trouble securing a director for the project. For a while, it looked like David Fincher ('The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo') would helm the film, but word recently came down that negotiations between Fincher and Columbia broke down. Not wasting any time, the studio is now apparently in talks with Ang Lee ('Brokeback Mountain') for the gig. Incidentally, Fincher has also yet to commit to directing 'The Girl Who Played with Fire,' the second installment of the remakes of the Millennium Trilogy. Sony, Columbia's sister company, is producing that. While no official deal is on the table yet for Lee, sources say the courting has begun.
This is becoming a far more interesting story that I ever contemplated another Cleopatra movie could be. I think over the last few years, with a slew of paint-by-number entries like the new 'Clash of the Titans' movies, I sort of becamed turned off to big-budget epics. I've seen a ton of movies in this sword and sandal genre, and the last one I really felt excelled was Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator.' Yes, Angelina Jolie is beautiful, but do we really need to see her display that fact yet again for two-hours in elegant costumes and makeup? Now, if Fincher were directing, I'd be a bit more intrigued. I'm disappointed that he's out, but I can understand how he would lose interest in this film. Hopefully however, he will sign on to do the next film in the Millennium Trilogy. Now that Lee is being courted, I'm back to apathy. Although if his new film 'Life of Pi' is as epically gorgeous as the trailers profess, that apathy may give way to optimism. Let's just hope they haven't changed directors again before then.
What do you guys think? Is anyone legitimately excited for this project? Is Ang Lee the right choice? Would Fincher have been?
Source: THR
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Comment by Charles Rocchi on August 27, 2012 at 11:07am -
I'm more worried about Angelina Jolie playing Cleo than who's directing it. I just don't think Angelina is any good as an actress. I've never actually liked her in the roles I've seen her in. With her playing I'm worried that this is going to be more a vehicle for her own sake rather than an honest attempt about telling the life of Cleo.
Then again, Angelina did make out with her brother, and Cleo married hers, so maybe that will at least be convincing. :p
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Comment by Tom on August 27, 2012 at 9:15am -
I hope she eats something before filming. I'm sick of watching her movies where she's an anorexic beating up 200 lb guys.
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Comment by Ruben Baeza on August 26, 2012 at 11:20pm -
Heres the thing. I'm sick of Angelina Jolie, ever since Girl Interrupted she's made one bad movie after another. She is overrated in everything and her personal life is one thing I hate seeing pop up in the news cuz I don't care. Didn't her directorial film debut flop? Get somebody else!
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Comment by Charmingman93 on August 26, 2012 at 9:53pm -
She did have mixed heritage but not Arabic, they didn't arrive until the middle ages. It doesn't necessarily mean she was white, but it also means she might not have been darker. For example, My dad and his brother are 1/4 indian (asian decent) my dad is brown skinned but his brother is white skinned. Plus there are no drawings i've seen of her, apart from coins, she could have been anything.
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Comment by randy on August 26, 2012 at 5:32pm -
I'm a huge Ang Lee fan outside of his blockbuster stuff, I don't like CTHD or Hulk much, but am a huge fan of his stuff like The Ice Storm and Wedding Banquet, both fantastic character dramas.
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Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on August 26, 2012 at 8:22am -
Ang Lee directed what is the best Marvel movie in my opinion, I think he's the man for any job.
I'm a little sick and tired of this project, based on what I've read it doesn't seem as much an attempt to tell the story of an historical figure with a star as the frontwoman as it seems like another vehicle for Jolie and a moneymaking scheme for the studio, I was hoping it wouldn't happen but it looks like it will.
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Comment by cat on August 26, 2012 at 1:28am -
Yeah, I'm not excited for Angelina Jolie in anything. Especially Maleficent and including Cleopatra. Somewhere along the line she became the prototype for the strong female character which I don't feel like she embodies. Nor does she really embody Cleopatra to me and I feel like the majority of the look is going to be achieved with makeup, which they could put on anyone.
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Comment by Mr.Horse on August 25, 2012 at 7:48am -
one thing is for sure. she HAS to be nude in the movie !
cant make a cleopatra movie with out some naked bitches
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Comment by VideaVice on August 25, 2012 at 4:11am -
Cleo was from the ptolemee lineage but it doesn't mean she was white. Her family was mixed with the local arabic and nubian population for centuries so the perfect Cleopatra is probably more a copper skinned or an olive skin but not a white woman.
And I also disagree with this way to present her as a symbol of failure of the dynasty. She was a great politician, and liege. I hope hollywood will stop to portray her as the sexy princess who slept with everyone back then because it wasn't that simple. They had so much more with her. She was forced to marry her little brother because she was a first born girl so not worthy at all for the throne. She never was supposed to be queen but she earned this position by exiling and killing her siblings. She manipulated the great Caesar himself, and imposed herself as a goddess by threatening the clergy just to be legitimated as pharao. She helped Rome during the civil war. She did all this while women weren't considerate as equals, while the image of a real king was a strong warrior and not a stunning beauty. She's s an amazing character. So much can be done with this movie if they don't try to only show her as the hot queen, she sure was.
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Comment by Mike on August 25, 2012 at 1:35am -
I hope David Fincher doesn't do another Girl with a Tattoo movie. While the movie was good, it just isn't a totally amazing story (especially the next two stories in the trilogy). Ang Lee is a solid director so he's good, but I haven't seen a good Angelina Jolie movie in forever.
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