Freeform Network Gearing Up For First Ever Period Series CLEOPATRA
Freeform is readying its first-ever period drama, Cleopatra. Deadline reports the show has assembled a writers room to work on scripts and is in the process of hiring a casting director and line producer in anticipation of a formal green light.
Written by Quantico executive producer Michael Seitzman, Cleopatra is described as an adventure series that follows the life of the most famous ruler in Egyptian history, Cleopatra who decides to stand up against the patriarchy and fight back for her freedom and rightful place as an heir. The show will follow her rise to become last and only female pharaoh.
Cleopatra is one of the most popular figures in ancient history. There have been several adaptations of her story, most famously the 1963 movie starring Elizabeth Taylor.