Variety reported late this evening that the next directing effort of Steven Soderbergh is to plot a 3-D live-
action rock ‘n’ roll musical about Cleopatra.
Soderbergh only you could do it. You rule in Hollywood.
He is wooing Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the Egyptian queen and Hugh Jackman to play her lover, Marc Antony.
Guided by Voices wrote the music and the script is by James Greer, a former bass player for the band and an author.
Soderbergh definitely has been creating on extremely different projects, this one is his first full-blown musical.
Soderbergh has a lot of balls in the air right now with the release the Benicio Del Toro starrer Che and wrapped Matt Damon starrer The Informant. He is also preparing a Liberace film at Warner Bros., with Michael Douglas attached to play the entertainer and Damon to play his companion, who sued him for palimony.
Prior to starting on Cleo, Soderbergh is set to direct The Girlfriend Experience, with porn star Sasha Grey to play a $10,000-a-night call girl.
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