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After playing the archetypal superheroine with Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot sets out on a new challenge, with a grandiose character: that of Cleopatra.

The star announced on her social networks that she had decided to launch the project with Patty Jenkins, who already directed her in the first two

Wonder Woman

films

(the release of

Wonder Woman 1984

, the new opus, has moreover been rejected).

“As you may have heard, I'm teaming up with @ PattyJenks and @ LKalogridis to bring the story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, to the big screen in a way never seen before,” she said. writes, specifying that for the first time, the character would be told “through the eyes of women, both behind and in front of the camera.

We are especially excited to announce it during the # InternationalDayoftheGirl ”.

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For the project, director Patty Jenkins and the lead actress, who will also co-produce the project with her husband Jaron Versano, teamed up with screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis, who wrote

Shutter Island,

among others

.

"We hope that women and girls around the world who aspire to tell stories will never give up on their dreams and make their voices heard, by and for other women," the star concluded.

Variety

, which relayed the information, says Paramount won a bitter bidding war to secure distribution rights for the film last weekend.

We still do not know the expected release date of this film which has not yet been written, but the studio has already decided to provide a huge budget, at the height of its main character and to release it "at the faster ".

The

Cleopatra

legendary Elizabeth Taylor in 1963, was almost put on straw 20th Century Fox at the time, but the result was rather successful: the film won four Oscars, including Best Picture, year next.

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