Will Smith To Play "The Last Pharaoh"?

CANOE – JAM! is reporting that Chris Hauty (Never Back Down) is polishing a script by Carl Franklin (Devil In A Blue Dress) for Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertaiment production company called The Last Pharaoh.

The film centers on Taharqa, the last Pharaoh of the 25th or Nubian Dynasty (the one in which blacks of Ethiopian descent ran Egypt) and is supposedly full of Ethiopians battling Assyrians for the throne of Amun-Ra. He was the son of Piye, the Nubian king of Napata who had first conquered Egypt, and the younger brother and successor of Shebitku. Smith is reportedly interested in playing the role himself.

“It’s an open writing assignment from Will’s company. It’s something he’s taken a big interest in,” says Hauty.

Before anyone says anything, the actual “last Pharaoh” of Egypt was Cleopatra VII. So there.