Angelina Jolie & 'Cleopatra': Ang Lee Wants To Direct Actress In Upcoming Movie

Who Will Direct Angelina Jolie In 'Cleopatra'?
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 29: Actress Angelina Jolie arrives to meet government ministers ahead of a screening of her new film 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' at the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) on May 29, 2012 in London, England. Angelina Jolie spoke on the Foreign Secretary’s initiative on preventing sexual violence in Conflict, ahead of the screening. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 29: Actress Angelina Jolie arrives to meet government ministers ahead of a screening of her new film 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' at the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) on May 29, 2012 in London, England. Angelina Jolie spoke on the Foreign Secretary’s initiative on preventing sexual violence in Conflict, ahead of the screening. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

More than two years after the news first broke that a new "Cleopatra" biopic was in the works, the film is finally close to getting a director.

"I'm about to read the script," Ang Lee said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "It just feels right to me after all the other types of films I've done. What does it have in common with any of them? They’re all totally different! That’s what makes this perfect.”

Lee is now the fourth director attached to "Cleopatra," falling in line after David Fincher, Paul Greengrass, and James Cameron. Lee has been discussed as a possibility for the film ever since Fincher walked away from it in August.

Jolie first voiced her involvement in 2010. "I think there's a lot about [Cleopatra's] history that's not been explored and properly done," she told MTV at the time.

Jolie is currently working on the Sleeping Beauty spin-off "Maleficent," which also features two of her children, Pax and Zahara.

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