US Weekly talks like it’s a done deal:
The Queen of Hollywood is indeed going to play the Queen of the Nile! Angelina Jolie has signed on to play Cleopatra in a film adaptation of an upcoming new historical biography, a rep for the book’s publisher Little, Brown confirms to UsMagazine.com.
Michael Pietsch, publisher of Little, Brown (which will release Schiff’s book this November) tells Us: “Angelina Jolie radiates grace and power, exactly the qualities that Stacy Schiff finds in her biography of the most intriguing ruler who ever lived.”
Producer Scott Rudin acquired the rights to author Stacy Schiff’s Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra: A Life with the 35-year old Jolie in mind for the title role. No rumors yet about who might play Cleopatra’s legendary love interest Mark Anthony. But US is quick to plant the most obvious seeds of speculation: “When Elizabeth Taylor played the ruler in a 1963 epic, her real-life paramour Richard Burton played the Roman politician.” Hint hint.
