‘WONDER WOMAN’ GAL GADOT’S NEW FILM RUNS INTO TROUBLE; HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED

The movie is announced to be released by Paramount Pictures and will be directed by Patty Jenkins, who directed Wonder Woman and the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984.

Gadot is credited to be behind the film, to be written by Laeta Kalogridis.

As you might have heard I teamed up with @PattyJenks and @LKalogridis to bring the story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, to the big screen in a way she’s never been seen before. To tell her story for the first time through women's eyes, both behind and in front of the camera. pic.twitter.com/k5eyTIfzjB

— Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) October 12, 2020

Comments to her social media post read,

As an egyptian I can assure you we don’t want you representing any part of our history.

Cleopatra was neither African nor Egyptian. She was Greek. And she’s been portrayed on-screen by Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert, Geneviève Bujold, among others. Charleston Heston and Richard burton portrayed Roman Marc Anthony and no one made a peep. But that was before

To anyone saying  that cleopatra should be played by a darker actress, that’s not correct as cleopatra was Greek and not dark! Please read history before you speak and complain

the level of disrespect is unbelievable. you are ISRAELI. portraying an ARAB figure. this is not going to end well. (sic)