According to the Daily Mail, this version of Cleopatra will not depict her as a seductress, who had affairs with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony, but instead will see a better and more intelligent ruler than the men on her times.
Kapur is well known to Hollywood, having directed Cate Blanchett in the two Elizabeth movies -- Elizabeth and The Golden Age -- and also Heath Ledger in The Four Feathers.
But who will play Cleopatra, who has been immortalised on the big screen by Elizabeth Taylor (in the picture)?
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