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| Garondo Marondo... |
 Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:45 pm |
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Actress to star in Philip Noyce's spy thriller
By MICHAEL FLEMING
"Edwin A. Salt" is about to undergo a gender change.
Once expected to star Tom Cruise, the Columbia Pictures espionage
thriller will be redrafted by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer as a star
vehicle for Angelina Jolie. Philip Noyce remains attached as director
and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash are producing.
Jolie is close to a deal to play the title character, a CIA officer
who's accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must
elude capture long enough to establish her innocence.
Cruise had long flirted with the project, but that ended recently. The
well-regarded script had several male movie stars circling.
Jolie took a liking to it, prompting the studio's decision to rewrite
it. Sources said the project won't require that much of an overhaul to
suit her.
After Universal beefed up Jolie's role in "Wanted" and then marketed
the action film squarely on Jolie's shoulders and watched it gross
$132 million domestically, Jolie reestablished, in the wake of "Mr. &
Mrs. Smith," that she is the rare female who is viable in the action
genre, which has been almost the exclusive domain of men.
"Edwin A. Salt" will undergo a title change, and if everything falls
into place, the film shapes up as a return vehicle for Jolie, who
recently gave birth to twins. Another candidate for her return is the
Lionsgate drama "Atlas Shrugged," which has been adapted by Randall
Wallace from the Ayn Rand novel.
Jolie, who also provided a lead voice in the DreamWorks Animation hit
"Kung Fu Panda," drew strong notices at the Cannes Film Festival for
her starring role in the Clint Eastwood-directed drama "Changeling"
for Imagine and Universal. That film opens in late October.
Jolie is managed by Media Talent's Geyer Kosinski.
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