Hugh Jackman makes the ladies purr and so who better to play the legendary Marc Anthony. However Jackman is saying his schedule is too tight to take on the role, so the rumoured casting never saw the dotted line.
No deal had been signed as the ambitious $30 million project is completing its financing, but Soderbergh asked his “Traffic” star Zeta-Jones to play Cleopatra and wanted new Oscar host Jackman to play her lover, the Roman general Marc Antony.
The project seems to want to set it as a rock musical much like “Elvis Presley movies” with rock tunes scattered about to punctuate the plot performed by the cast.
No one knows what this project is that is causing the scheduling conflict, but instead of assuming that its just a line I just hope that there is something BETTER on Jackman’s horizon that he is leaving room for.
I LOVE CLEOPATRA!SHE ROCKS! I EVEN HAVE AN EGYPTIAN DRESS LIKE HERS!!!!! HER DRESSES LOOK A LOT BETTER THOUGH!!!!! SHE IS SO COOL IT IS UNREAL!!!!!!!!!!! I WISH I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MEET HER WAAAAAY BACK THEN………. I’VE WATCHED ALL OF THE MOVIES,TOO. A LOOOOONG TIME AGO I DID MY SOCIAL STUDIES FAIR PRODJECT ON HER. A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK I LOOK LIKE CLEOPATRA. I WISH I WAS HER!!!!!!!!!!!! LATER CLEOPATRA LOVERS!!!!!!!!!!
jackman needs a hit big time….or these offers will dry up pretty fast.
he hasn’t had a hit outside of the x men franchise. australia is a massive turkey and before that he had that awful thriller with ewan mcgregor and michelle williams.
Am I the only one who is not attracted to Catherine Zeta Jones and doesn’t like her as an actress?
Clooney would be much better.
YEAH- YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!!!!!
*if…not is….on my typo….haha
Not for nothing, but Mark ANTHONY is J-Lo’s soon to be ex. Mark ANTONY is the legendary Roman general and Cleopatra’s lover. Is they asked Jackman to play the former, then no wonder he turned it down…..:-)
Just pointing out your little typo….
So fucking HOT.
Picking the RIGHT roles can make or break you in Hollywood.
But in the case of Jackman, he just has to pick from a list. I am sure he is getting offer after offer. Cant accept them all.
i never quite understood why actors turn down movies….id do anythign short of suckign a dick to be in a movie…
news like “actor X turns down electro role for spiderman 4” just never seem to wrap around my head..they dotn make much sense
With Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Cleopatra, they could cast a garden gnome as Marc Anthony and I’d still pay $10 to see it.
THATS A GREAT WAY TO PUT IT. I LOVED IT