{"id":662285,"date":"2026-10-31T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T02:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:28:09","slug":"martin-scorsese-says-cleopatra-with-angelina-jolie-was-ruined-by-sony-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662285\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese Says Cleopatra With Angelina Jolie Was Ruined by Sony Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMartin Scorsese<\/a>\u2018s \u201cCleopatra<\/a>\u201d never came to fruition, and he says the Angelina Jolie<\/a>-starrer was nixed because of Seth Rogen<\/a> and the Sony hack.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor those who need a refresher, Sony emails were hacked in November 2014 by a group that hoped the Seth Rogen comedy \u201cThe Interview,\u201d which was about a fictional assassination attempt of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, would not be released by Sony.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Scorsese, this caused some aftereffects in the industry, which he described in the first episode of the Tribeca original series \u201cCrafty<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were gonna do Cleopatra at one point, and then they made fun of [Kim Jong Un], and he got mad and blew up everybody at Columbia,\u201d Scorsese said. \u201cSeth Rogen, right? And then he got mad, and [it] ruined Cleopatra.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Rogen wasn\u2019t directly responsible for the project being canceled, the resulting hack exposed thousands of emails, including ones from producer Scott Rudin<\/a> to Sony\u2019s Amy Pascal calling Jolie \u201ca minimally talented spoiled brat.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were gonna do it,\u201d Scorsese also said. \u201cAngelina Jolie. We were going. She was gonna be Cleopatra VII. It was gonna be really wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was set to be written by screenwriter Eric Roth, who wrote Scorsese\u2019s 2023 film \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the episode of \u201cCrafty\u201d below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese\u2018s \u201cCleopatra\u201d never came to fruition, and he says the Angelina Jolie-starrer was nixed because of Seth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4807,458,298077,146,85,46,7643,888],"class_list":["post-662285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-celebrities","tag-cleopatra","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-seth-rogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}