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.
On Thursday, it was reported that film
producer Scott Rudin had 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. Michael Pietsch, publisher of Little, Brown (which will release Schiff's book this November) says: "Angelina
Jolie radiates grace and power, exactly the qualities that Stacy Schiff
finds in her biography of the most intriguing ruler who ever lived. "No
word on who might play Cleopatra's legendary love Mark Anthony. (When
Elizabeth Taylor played the ruler in a 1963 epic, her real-life paramour
Richard Burton played the Roman politician.)
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