Cleopatra to rise from past
"Elizabeth" director Shekhar Kapur is developing a TV show that aims to reinterpret the life of Egyptian queen Cleopatra as a woman who understood the power of myth and worked hard to create her own legend. Kapur will write and direct the show and a worldwide search for the actress who will play Cleopatra will soon get under way. Whether or not the final product will put the massive 1963 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton flop to rest remains to be seen.Rebecca Ferguson, the actress who plays Ilsa Faust in "Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation" is currently in talks with DreamWorks to star opposite Emily Blunt in the film adaptation of Paula Hawkins' runaway bestseller "The Girl on the Train". The film is to be directed by Tate Taylor, the writer of the adaptation of "The Help" and the director of the James Brown biopic, "Get on Up".First it was John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" then Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" and the scientists behind the development of the atomic bomb in TV's "Manhattan". Now it's the turn of everyone's favourite 1980s television physicist, Carl Sagan, to have his life turned into a film.Warner Brothers are working on a biopic of the late scientist, who is most famous for presenting the TV show "Cosmos". The film will be produced by Lynda Obst who produced "Interstellar", together with Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow...
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