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Variety's Michael Fleming and Elsa Keslassy are reporting with apparent seriousness that Steven Soderbergh intends to direct a $30 million 3-D rock musical about Cleopatra with Catherine Zeta-Jones in the title role and Hugh Jackman as Marc Antony.

Financing and distribution deals are being shopped "over the next two weeks" by producers Greg Jacobs and Casey Silver. (Some kind of drop-dead, do-or-die window of opportunity?) The music has been written by the defunct indie rock band Guided by Voices (formed in '83, disbanded in '04), and the script is by James Greer, a former bass player for the band and an author.

It seems a bit much, no? Domestic Bollywood, emotionally excessive, flirting with ick. Maybe that's the "point." The gaudier and more Technicolor 3-D lurid in a take-no-prisoners sense, the better.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 23, 2008 at 7:17 PM

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calraigh says ...

'' Flirting with ick '' is an absolutely, searingly brilliant phrase. I'll be using it regularly from now on. Thank you for this.

Posted by calraigh at October 23, 2008 7:58 PM

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slutsky says ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/images/2006/10/19/dmu_head_in_hands_315x420.jpg

Posted by slutsky at October 23, 2008 8:22 PM

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D.Z. says ...

Soderbergh didn't learn anything from that last Cleopatra movie.

Posted by D.Z. at October 23, 2008 8:27 PM

comment #4

frankbooth says ...

This story started out strange, and then you mentioned GBV and it became surreal.

If you don't know their music, Google around for some samples. Not exactly typical Hollywood musical stuff.

This has the potential to be downright Lynchian. It's either gonna be genius, or Showgirls 2.

Posted by frankbooth at October 23, 2008 8:36 PM

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D.Z. says ...

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=features&id=awardseasonlaunch&articleid=VR1117994549

Posted by D.Z. at October 23, 2008 9:06 PM

comment #6

Mark says ...

Guided by Voices broke up???? WTF. Ever hear of a spoiler alert?

Posted by Mark at October 23, 2008 9:16 PM

comment #7

DeafBrownTrashPunk says ...

so? There are weird campy musical cult films like ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (one of my faves) and HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.

If he does it right with good actors who can pull off campy performances, then it could be a cult hit.

Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk at October 23, 2008 9:18 PM

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kinks541 says ...

How is GBV doing the music if they broke up 4 years ago?

I guess if you go through their thousands of songs you could probably assemble a musical about anything, really. I know Soderbergh is a huge fan, so maybe he got Pollard to work on some new stuff for a soundtrack?

They lost me at "musical" and re-got me with "GBV." Bizarre.

Posted by kinks541 at October 23, 2008 9:26 PM

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YND says ...

GBV is basically Bob Pollard, so the inclusion of GBV only really necessitates Pollard's involvement. As Pollard did the music for Soderbergh's BUBBLE, it's not too surprising he'd be on board for this. That said, this is a concept that blows my mind and the involvement of GBV amps my anticipation factor up to eleven. Man, you know -- even when I don't care for Soderbergh's stuff, I freakin' love that there's a Soderbergh out there doing it.

Posted by YND at October 23, 2008 9:55 PM

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Edward says ...

Could be interesting.

Am I alone in being underwhelmed by Rocky Horror. Campy sure, but it's about an outer space transvestite and is pretty tame. If they had dialed up the kink a bit more it might have worked. Tim Currey, however, is fantastic.

Posted by Edward at October 23, 2008 9:58 PM

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Craptastic says ...

Either Robert Pollard is writing the music (like he did for Bubble) or Soderburgh is using existing GBV songs. I doubt Pollard would ever do anything under the GBV name again.

I CAN see thousands of women dancing in the desert to "Glad Girls".

Posted by Craptastic at October 23, 2008 11:19 PM

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p.Vice says ...

Parallel lines on a slow decline... sounds like Soderbergh's career in a nutshell.

Posted by p.Vice at October 23, 2008 11:27 PM

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lazarus says ...

Soderbergh's going to have to include some kind of alien subplot if he plans on using a lot of GBV material.

It has to be Pollard by himself, I'm sure. He wrote 99% of the GBV songs anyway.

Posted by lazarus at October 24, 2008 12:11 AM

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actionman says ...

yeah, soderbergh's career is in decline. yeah. right.

Posted by actionman at October 24, 2008 4:08 AM

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Rich S. says ...

Hey, it's not too late to release Che in 3D. And I'm sure Queen is available to spice up the soundtrack, now that they're touring again with Paul Rodgers.

Posted by Rich S. at October 24, 2008 4:36 AM

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