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GAL GADOT HAS BEEN CASTED IN "CLEOPATRA"
Monday, 12 October 2020
Cleopatra is coming to life!
Paramount Pictures just won an auction for a film that has Gal Gadot as Cleopatra, helmed by Patty Jenkins, as reported on Sunday (October 11).
The two also previously collaborated together on the Wonder Woman series. The representing biographical drama will be written by Laeta Kalogridis.
“This is the first major project package won by Paramount Motion Picture Group President Emma Watts in an auction that came down to a right fight between Universal, Warner Bros, Netflix and Apple, I’ve heard,” the outlet stated.
“The film will be produced by Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven, Jenkins, Gadot, and her Pilot Wave Motion Pictures partner Jaron Varsano. Kalogridis will be the executive producer. Yesterday, a deal closed after Gadot — She came up with the idea in the first place which was generated by Pilot Wave — participated in a few numbers of Zoom proposals and was in the company of Jenkins, Roven, and Varsano, with Kalogridis laying out the groundwork for a story of epic proportions.”
The report also notes that “there is an accelerated timetable and Paramount prevailed because the studio…created an urgency to mount a big-budget theatrical release film as quickly as possible.”
Apparently, there was a race for the storytelling of Cleopatra first. “The producers of Sony Pictures and Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin have been working for years on an adaptation of the Stacy Schiff biography Cleopatra. Angelina Jolie was suggested as possible cast and Lady Gaga was later rumored for a likely screening as well.
The list of potential directors has included James Cameron, Denis Villeneuve, and David Fincher. The film has been through many rewrites, last from David Scarpa. Recently it was rumored that Eric Roth is working on it, meaning there might be a rat race between Sony and Paramount to go first.”
Paramount Pictures just won an auction for a film that has Gal Gadot as Cleopatra, helmed by Patty Jenkins, as reported on Sunday (October 11).
The two also previously collaborated together on the Wonder Woman series. The representing biographical drama will be written by Laeta Kalogridis.
“This is the first major project package won by Paramount Motion Picture Group President Emma Watts in an auction that came down to a right fight between Universal, Warner Bros, Netflix and Apple, I’ve heard,” the outlet stated.
“The film will be produced by Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven, Jenkins, Gadot, and her Pilot Wave Motion Pictures partner Jaron Varsano. Kalogridis will be the executive producer. Yesterday, a deal closed after Gadot — She came up with the idea in the first place which was generated by Pilot Wave — participated in a few numbers of Zoom proposals and was in the company of Jenkins, Roven, and Varsano, with Kalogridis laying out the groundwork for a story of epic proportions.”
The report also notes that “there is an accelerated timetable and Paramount prevailed because the studio…created an urgency to mount a big-budget theatrical release film as quickly as possible.”
Apparently, there was a race for the storytelling of Cleopatra first. “The producers of Sony Pictures and Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin have been working for years on an adaptation of the Stacy Schiff biography Cleopatra. Angelina Jolie was suggested as possible cast and Lady Gaga was later rumored for a likely screening as well.
The list of potential directors has included James Cameron, Denis Villeneuve, and David Fincher. The film has been through many rewrites, last from David Scarpa. Recently it was rumored that Eric Roth is working on it, meaning there might be a rat race between Sony and Paramount to go first.”
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