FROM BRILLIANT SHEKHAR KAPUR
Now this is probably the best news of the week: not only that Slingshot Global Media has announced their work on CLEOPATRAepic TV series, but it has also been revealed today that 
our absolute favourite directorShekhar Kapur(ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH GOLDEN AGE, FOUR FEATHERS) will helm it and write it! Instead of focusing on the arch seductress made famous by her affairs with men like Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the show will highlight the opposite – that these men were famous because of her. It will follow the narrative of an 18-year-old girl who came to be a Pharaoh and a queen – a woman who was brighter, more intelligent, richer and a better ruler than the men of her time. The series will reinvent her as the modern woman, a woman that understood the power of myth and turned herself into a myth, constantly reinventing herself. It will highlight her great loves and her survival in the face of repeated assassination attempts, which made her one of the most dangerous, yet most powerful, thrones of all time.
our absolute favourite directorShekhar Kapur(ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH GOLDEN AGE, FOUR FEATHERS) will helm it and write it! Instead of focusing on the arch seductress made famous by her affairs with men like Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the show will highlight the opposite – that these men were famous because of her. It will follow the narrative of an 18-year-old girl who came to be a Pharaoh and a queen – a woman who was brighter, more intelligent, richer and a better ruler than the men of her time. The series will reinvent her as the modern woman, a woman that understood the power of myth and turned herself into a myth, constantly reinventing herself. It will highlight her great loves and her survival in the face of repeated assassination attempts, which made her one of the most dangerous, yet most powerful, thrones of all time..png)
