Steven Soderbergh will take up a 3D live action rock and roll musical about Cleopatra. He is trying to get Catherine Zeta Jones to play the title character and Hugh Jackman to play her lover Marc Antony.
The 30 million dollar Cleo will be shopped for financing and distribution within the next two weeks. Greg Jacobs is producing with Casey Silver.
The music has been written by the indie rock band Guided by Voices, and the script was written by James Greer, a former bass player for the band and an author.
Soderbergh has been doing some really different projects for the last few years; this one will be his first full blown musical.
Soderbergh, who is about to release the Benicio Del Toro starrer Che and wrapped Matt Damon starrer The Informant is also preparing a Richard LaGravanese scripted Liberace film at Warner Bros., Michael Douglas is said to star in the movie and Damon will play his companion, who eventually sued him for palimony.
Before Cleo Soderbergh still has The Girlfriend Experience, which he is shooting with porn star Sasha Grey, who plays a 10000 dollar call girl in a film that will be simultaneously distributed in theatres, on DVD and on the HDnet movie channel by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s HDnet label.
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