File this under resurrected good news: Nefertiti, Halle Berry's collaboration with Monster's Ball director Marc Forster, may be emerging from development hell. The MTV Movies Blog posted a short (like, twenty-second) clip about the project from a recent interview with Berry (watch it here).

Let me highlight the phrases I like: "Battle scenes," "love," "woman coming into her own," "woman ruler," "that epic quality." Now that's a mantra I can get behind. I'm also excited that a woman of color will star. (I could totally see the cast of something like this being whitewashed (hi, Liz Taylor in Cleopatra!) and ending up with, say, Cate Blanchett in a skull cap.) But Berry has the looks, the style and the regal bearing to play Nefertiti and all of her adjectival phrases: Great of Favors, Possessed of Charm, Mistress of Sweetness, Beloved One, Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt.

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