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Cleopatra’ Epic To Re-Team ‘Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot & Patty Jenkins; Paramount Wins Wild Auction

By Mike Fleming Jr
October 11, 2020 8:35am

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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has won an auction for an epic that will have Gal Gadot wearing the crown of a real wonder woman of history. Wonder Woman helmer Patty Jenkins will direct Gadot in Cleopatra, a period biographical drama scripted 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 Universal, Warner Bros, Netflix and Apple, I’ve heard.
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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 exec producer. Deal closed yesterday after Gadot — the film was her idea and generated by Pilot Wave — took part in a select number of Zoom pitches, accompanied by Jenkins, Roven and Varsano, with Kalogridis laying out the beats of an epic story that is based on the research she did after Gadot enlisted her.

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Deal is more than a development pact. There is an accelerated timetable and Paramount prevailed because the studio — led by Watts and chairman/CEO Jim Gianopulos — created an urgency to mount a big budget theatrical release film as quickly as possible. Kalogridis, whose credits include Alexander, Shutter Island, and most recently Alita: Battle Angel, will begin writing immediately, with Gadot, Jenkins, Roven and Varsano helping to shape a narrative they all hope might be the next film together for Gadot and Jenkins, who teamed on two Wonder Woman films.

The Egyptian queen’s tale has all the makings of a big female empowerment story, told by women. She was mostly played as a seductress by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 Joseph Mankiewicz-directed Cleopatra. That film cost more than any film to date and despite winning four of the nine Oscars for which it was nominated and being a big hit at the box office, Cleopatra nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox. Despite that, Hollywood has continued its infatuation with the Queen of the Nile. Sony Pictures and producers Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin have for years developed an adaptation of the Stacy Schiff biography Cleopatra. Angelina Jolie was attached and Lady Gaga was later rumored for a possible coronation following her Oscar-nominated performance in A Star Is Born. The list of potential directors has included James Cameron, Denis Villenueve and David Fincher. The film has been through many rewrites, last from David Scarpa. I hear most recently that Eric Roth is working on it, meaning there might be a footrace here between Sony and Paramount to go first.

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Cleopatra is the daughter of Ptolemy, ancestor of the leader of Alexander the Great’s army. When Rome’s ruler Julius Caesar’s mentor-turned-rival Pompey fled to Egypt after a brutal war for control of the empire, Egypt became a fixation of Roman rulers. Two siblings battled for the throne of Egypt. After winning that internal struggle by appealing personally to Caesar, Cleopatra had a complicated relationship with Rome, becoming the lover of Caesar and later Marc Antony. The latter alliance would become the undoing of both Antony and Cleopatra.

Gadot, Jenkins and Roven most recently completed the Warner Bros sequel Wonder Woman 1984, its release just pushed to Christmas Day because of the uncertainty of opening a major film in a movie theater because of coronavirus. While that theatrical release crisis continues because of the pandemic, it is somehow heartening to see a theatrical release studio step up for an epic project, at a time when most of these big package deals have lately been won by the streamers.

Gadot’s Pilot Wave is separately developing with The Affair‘s Sarah Treem the series Hedy Lamarr at Apple TV+, and Polish WWII heroine Irena Sendler at Warner Bros. Both are star vehicles for the Israeli-born actress. Gadot is currently shooting Red Notice, the Rawson Marshall Thurber-directed Netflix heist film. She will next be seen starring in the Kenneth Branagh-directed Death on the Nile, in December, as well as Wonder Woman 1984 from Warner Bros.

Roven, who produced the two Wonder Woman films, is in production on Uncharted, the Ruben Fleischer-directed action film that stars Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas for Sony, and wrapped the James Gunn-directed The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros.

Gadot is repped by WME and Jenkins by CAA, and Kalogridia by attorney Shep Rosenman.
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The comment section is filled with We Wuz Kangz fantasies from Amerimutts and Achmeds since they got an Ashkenazi Jew to play a Balkans mixed with Central Asia queen.
 
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Ganymede said:
This sounds dreadful - Gal Gadot is barely an actress.

Cleopatra wasn't the most beautiful woman but she managed to snare two of the most powerful men of the time through charisma and intellect - two words people don't typically associate with this actress.

We'll see.
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The whole 'myth' built up around Cleo's beauty and the portrayal of her as some sort of evil seductress was partly a result of Octavian's propaganda machine swinging into high gear against Mark Antony, and to explain why both Mark Antony and Caesar hooked up with her.

In reality she was pretty alright with realpolitik, considering she managed to get Caesar to back her side in the civil war, though Caesar no doubt also saw it as an opportunity to secure the 'breadbasket of the world' - very important if he wanted to keep the bread dole running.
 
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Are they going to make every Greek in the movie talk with that accent she has like they did with the Amazons in Wonder Woman?
I don't see her being able to carry this movie, she's a horrible actress who gets by on having a pretty face.
WW had the benefit of having Chris Pine (he's not great but he was charming enough) so they better cast some charismatic people as Caesar and Mark Anthony.
Get Karl Urban as one of them, he has charisma to spare and he's hot shit right now thanks to The Boys.

Also, I've just looked this up... produced by Gal Gadot... story by Gal Gadot... written by the woman who was the main writer on Terminator Genisys and who also wrote that horrible Alexander movie with Colin Farrell.... Jesus fucking Christ, this is going to blow dick.
 
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Idiotron said:
Are they going to make every Greek in the movie talk with that accent she has like they did with the Amazons in Wonder Woman?
I don't see her being able to carry this movie, she's a horrible actress who gets by on having a pretty face.
WW had the benefit of having Chris Pine (he's not great but he was charming enough) so they better cast some charismatic people as Caesar and Mark Anthony.
Get Karl Urban as one of them, he has charisma to spare and he's hot shit right now thanks to The Boys.

Also, I've just looked this up... produced by Gal Gadot... story by Gal Gadot... written by the woman who was the main writer on Terminator Genisys and who also wrote that horrible Alexander movie with Colin Farrell.... Jesus fucking Christ, this is going to blow dick.
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Not looking good, but I respect Gal Gadot making her move and taking her shot. Itll be interesting to see whether or not this is the same project Angelina Jolie was trying to star in but that never got off the ground.

She isn't a good actress, but she isnt bad either, just new and rough around the edges. Liz Taylor did it past her prime imo and she wasnt exactly a Ingrid Bergman level actress at any point in her career much less when she did Cleopatra. The movies writer/s is a concern but Patty Jenkins is a good director. Theres hope for the movie.


Why the hate for Chris Pratt in this thread though? He was very good in The Outlaw King(his best performance imo), entertaining in all the Star Trek movies(the problems with those movies werent him, and he was the absolute best part in Into the Woods since he and Meryll were the only ones actually having fun in that movie. What gives?
 
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Getting tard comed said:
She isn't a good actress, but she isnt bad either, just new and rough around the edges.
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Everything I've seen her in, she was awful.
Maybe I haven't seen that 1 movie where she does OK but I think Keanu Reeves is Oscar worthy compared to her.

Why the hate for Chris Pratt in this thread though? He was very good in The Outlaw King(his best performance imo), entertaining in all the Star Trek movies(the problems with those movies werent him, and he was the absolute best part in Into the Woods since he and Meryll were the only ones actually having fun in that movie. What gives?
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People hate the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies and he was Kirk.
 
At least Gal had the presence of mind not to fully tard out trying to sink her own DC franchise the way Margot Robbie did.
Allanon said:
Gal Gadot is too pretty to be Cleopatra. Cleopatra was a honker who was so good at seducing people that they spread stories of her being breathtaking just to feel less embarrassed that they got seduced by her.
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Cleopatra is in fact ancient Greek for "Great dome".
Getting tard comed said:
Not looking good, but I respect Gal Gadot making her move and taking her shot. Itll be interesting to see whether or not this is the same project Angelina Jolie was trying to star in but that never got off the ground.

She isn't a good actress, but she isnt bad either, just new and rough around the edges. Liz Taylor did it past her prime imo and she wasnt exactly a Ingrid Bergman level actress at any point in her career much less when she did Cleopatra. The movies writer/s is a concern but Patty Jenkins is a good director. Theres hope for the movie.


Why the hate for Chris Pratt in this thread though? He was very good in The Outlaw King(his best performance imo), entertaining in all the Star Trek movies(the problems with those movies werent him, and he was the absolute best part in Into the Woods since he and Meryll were the only ones actually having fun in that movie. What gives?
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My problem with Chris Pine is he's basically James Marsden but shilled as an actual A lister. Typical Hollywood prettyboy, nothing too special as an actor. Definitely ain't no Shatner, sporto.
 
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Foxxo said:
Cleopatra was Greek. Heck, Judea's rulers were Greek back then, too.

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And and if the Kangz said they ruled Egypt, we could refresh some memories with that meme.
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