Wonderwoman actress, Gal Gadot has been tapped by Patty Jenkins to star in the latest film adaptation of Cleopatra, a story based on the famed Ancient Egyptian, albeit, Macedonian-Greek queen who seduced two would-be Roman rulers before being killed by an actual Roman emperor, or so the story goes.

Cleopatra, which means the glory of the father, is a fitting name for a woman is was the last of a powerful paternalistic dynasty.

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