Angelina Jolie wins film battle to play Liz

ANGELINA JOLIE has beaten-off a challenge from Catherine Zeta-Jones to land the plum role of Elizabeth Taylor in a film about the Hollywood legend’s life.

Angelina Jolie will play Elizabeth Taylor in a Hollywood film about the screen legend Taylor s life Angelina Jolie will play Elizabeth Taylor in a Hollywood film about the screen legend Taylor's life

According to a source close to director Mike Nichols, “Angelina just shaded it in his mind” and will now portray the icon, whose turbulent love life with Richard Burton made headlines in the Sixties and Seventies just as Jolie’s romance with Brad Pitt does today.

The film will be based on the book Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.

Russell Crowe, Clive Owen and Colin Farrell are among the favourites to play Burton.

Jolie, 35, said she was “honoured” to play Taylor, adding: “I’m fascinated by her and the mystery and mystique that have always surrounded her. We haven’t got a script yet but as soon as we have something good enough we’ll make it.”

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