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Angelina Jolie, filmmaker James Cameron and Sony Pictures are considering teaming for a PG-13 3D feature based on the life of ancient Egyptian ruler Cleopatra.

The project has been in development since 2006 and will be based on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s new book, “Cleopatra: A Life”. Scott Rudin is producing and Jolie became attached to star back in June.

Now, Deadline reports that scribe Brian Helgeland has turned in a draft the studio is very keen on and hopes to get into production next year. The film is being described as an epic on the scale of “Gone with the Wind” and deals with “what the Romans took from Egypt”.

via Dark Horizons | News | Jolie, James Cameron Plan 3D “Cleopatra”? – October 15th 2010.