Eric Roth is within foretells pen 'Cleopatra'

Roth"Very Noisy and extremely Close" scribe Eric Roth is within foretells reteam with producer Scott Rudin on The new sony Pictures' "Nefertiti," that has Julia Roberts mounted on star because the Egyptian full.David Fincher is circling the pic, which John Helgeland initially modified from Stacy Schiff's best-selling book "Nefertiti: A Existence." There's no offer place yet for Roth, even though The new sony wouldn't confirm his participation, sources near to the project confirm he's been contacted and can likely begin writing over the following several days.Film will inform Cleopatra's story from the woman's perspective, showing her like a master strategist if this involves both politics and war.Rudin acquired it and it is creating the pic, that is likely to have a substantial cost, though Jolie has proven herself like a bankable actress who are able to open a film. Her latter live-action photos, "The Tourist" and "Salt," correspondingly made $278 and $293 million worldwide for The new sony.It remains unclear whether "Nefertiti" is going to be shot in three dimensional, that was James Cameron's plan when he was thinking about pointing the project.Roth formerly authored Sony's Muhammad Ali biopic "Ali" for director Michael Mann, and many lately authored "The Curious Situation of Benjamin Button" for Jolie's partner, Kaira Pitt. Scribe is repped by CAA. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com