LADY GAGA, ANGELINA JOLIE VYING FOR CLEOPATRA

The A-list stars are in the race for playing the Queen of Nile — a role synonymous with Elizabeth Taylor — in the remake of the 1963 classic

Actors Lady Gaga and Angelina Jolie are in a battle to land a chance to play Cleopatra in a mega-budget film reboot.

The 43-year-old Oscar winner, Jolie has been in onoff talks for months with studio bosses over playing the part, which was essayed by actor Elizabeth Taylor in a 1963 film.

But Grammy-winning singer, Gaga, 32, is now also in the running following the success of A Star Is Born (2018), which was her big screen debut as a leading lady. Gaga was nominated in Golden Globes for her performance in the film.

A senior production source at the studio told The Daily Star: “Cleopatra was known as the Queen of the Nile, and Elizabeth Taylor firmly established herself as Hollywood’s queen in the 1963 film version. There’s every reason to think that whoever gets to play her this time round is going to enjoy an equally lofty perch in the motion picture industry.”

The 1963 movie won four Academy Awards and was billed as an “epic historical drama”.

However, the new Cleopatra is being touted by producers as a “dirty, bloody political thriller told from a feminist perspective”.

The source said it could be so close between Jolie and Gaga that “both of them will have to audition — a pretty rare ask of an A-list star”.

THE SOURCE SAID IT COULD BE SO CLOSE BETWEEN ANGELINA JOLIE AND LADY GAGA THAT BOTH OF THEM WILL HAVE TO AUDITION FOR THE ROLE, WHICH IS A RARE THING FOR A-LIST STARS IN HOLLYWOOD

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK Lady Gaga’s performance in A Star Is Born (2018) has gained her multiple award nominations

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK Angelina Jolie has films such as Girl, Interrupted (1999), Mr & Mrs Smith (2005), and Changeling (2008) to her credit