Permission to shoot there was withdrawn last week after the Bosnian Government said that no screenplay had been attached to the application made by Jolie and her production crew; and that they could not, by law, grant one without it.
This will come as good news for the production, which has already been hit with rumours that the story will focus on a torturer falling in love with his/her victim; a plot point that Jolie and her camp have steadfastly denied. Nevertheless, it has meant that the as-yet-untitled film has drawn negative press from women's right's activist. And Jolie herself had this to say that it would be a shame if
"unfair pressure based on wrong information" prevented her crew from shooting her film."My hope is that people will hold judgment until they have seen the film," said added.
Bakira Hasecic, a women's rights activist from an opposition group, told The Associated Press that she had tried to meet Jolie since August, when she first heard about the film's possible plot.
"We expect to meet with her now finally and we hope she will convince us that what we were suspecting and what we were afraid of is not true," she said...
IT HAS all the ingredients of a Hollywood epic, with Avatar director James Cameron planning to retell the story of Cleopatra – casting Angelina Jolie in the starring role and Brad Pitt as her lover Mark Antony.
The prospect of Cleopatra in 3D is “tantalisingly close” according to Hollywood insiders, with Jolie keen to play the Egyptian ruler, most famously brought played by Elizabeth Taylor in Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 version.
Cameron’s last two offerings, Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009), are the two highest- grossing films of all time at 1.8 billion and 2.7bn respectively, but his 3D Cleopatra isn’t a guaranteed hit, say observers.
Steven Gaydos of Variety magazine, said: “Cleopatra would likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It would be seen as risky because the biggest Jolie films have not performed at the level required to recoup their costs.” — © The Times, London
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