Hugh Jackman is said to have pulled out of negotiations for Steven Soderbergh’s 3D rock ‘n roll musical ‘Cleopatra’.  Hugh was slated to play Roman general Marc Anthony to Catherine Zeta Jones’ Cleopatra.

Soderbergh explains it is largely due to scheduling conflicts:

“I want him to be [involved], we’re trying to work it out,” he told inthenews.co.uk at the UK premiere of Che last year.

“I guess [X-Men Origins:] Wolverine is opening in 2010 so he’ll have the publicity tour for that, but I definitely want him.”

Hugh is going to be very busy with hosting the Academy Awards in February and returns as Wolverine in May.

Bummer.  I suspect we would have seen him topless and buff in that production, no?

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