Angie replaces Tom
2008-08-12 21:47
Los Angeles - Edwin A Salt is getting a sex change.
New mother of twins Angelina Jolie, coming off the hit movie Wanted, is in negotiations to replace actor Tom Cruise in the spy thriller.
Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer will redraft the screenplay, about a CIA officer who must prove she is not a Russian sleeper spy out to assassinate the president, to suit Jolie. Phillip Noyce remains as director.
The title also will change.
The project has a long history, with directors coming and going, though Cruise has long been tethered to it.
Jolie also is attached to star in Atlas Shrugged, an adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel. She intends to do both, though in what order, remains unclear.
Wanted, in which Jolie plays an assassin, has earned about R1.9bn at the worldwide box office. Cruise, in theatres last year with the bomb Lions for Lambs, has a supporting role in the comedy Tropic Thunder, which opens on Wednesday.
- Reuters