Denis Villeneuve's CLEOPATRA Movie is Described as a Dirty and Bloody Political Thriller

As you may have heard, Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve is currently in talks to develop and direct Sony Pictures' new Cleopatra movie which is being written by David Scarpa, Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland. Scarpa wrote the script for All the Money in the World and and in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter he talked about what we can expect from the film, calling it a "lean, mean political thriller": 

“It’s similar [to All the Money in the World] in that there’s a lot of research involved and there’s a question with all that of how do you want to do it and how do you make something new out of it? With Getty, part of the idea was to take two genres we felt we knew, which was the kidnapping genre and what we’ll call the “great man” genre — the Citizen Kane genre — and smash them together and make something new out of them. With Cleopatra … instead of doing the movie as the prestige picture — the three-hour, lots of pageantry, people with fans and English accents and all that stuff — [we] really treat it as a political thriller. Dirty, bloody, lots of people swearing and having sex and all of that other stuff and just treat it as a two-hour, lean, mean political thriller, full of assassinations, etc. Just going the opposite direction from the way we think that movie is going to go.”

The new Cleopatra film is based on the Stacy Schiff biography Cleopatra: A Life. It sounds like it's going to end up being a pretty crazy movie. With Villeneuve at the helm, there's no doubt it will be a film worth checking out.

What do you think about a new take on Cleopatra?  Is this a movie that sparks your interest?