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.
Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons.
Scarpa, who also wrote the script for All the Money in the World, revealed to The Hollywood Reporter what we can expect from the film.
She waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family specialties.