ANGIE QUEEN OF THE NILE

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ANGELINA JOLIE may play CLEOPATRA in new biopic.  Will BRAD take all the asp he can get to play doomed lover MARC ANTONY?

Not that’s Cleopatra’s been done before.  It and she has – numerous times.

The bloated ‘scope spectacle Cleopatra in 1963 which starred LIZ TAYLOR & DICK BURTON and REX HARRISON was so expensive it nearly sank MGM  faster than Brando‘s Bounty.

Yet Hollywood producer Scott Rudin, who’s been attached to more hits and misses than plagues out of Egypt, seems determined to do it again with Angie as the face that launched a thousand remakes.

Multiple sources report that Rudin who’ developing CLEO "for and with" Jolie optioned the property from author Stacy Schiff based on her book, Cleopatra A Life, as opposed to the play by hoary old geezer Shakespeare.

Meanwhile, whenever Angie’s mentioned in a high profile tout billy-goated Brad’s name is sure to follow especially as Marc Anthony, Cleo’s gone-mad Roman lover. 

Don’t think Rudin wants a Dick & Liz style double diva fest so maybe he’ll do a little counter programming with the rest of the casting.

May we suggest BILLY CRUDUP?