Angelina Jolie’s “Salt” Teaser Trailer
Columbia Pictures has revealed the first teaser trailer for their action-thriller “Salt“.
In the film, Angelina Jolie stars as Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is a patriot. Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world’s most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.
The film, directed by Phillip Noyce (Catch a Fire)from script by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, co-stars Liev Schreiber (Defiance, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as Winter, her ally and supervisor in the CIA’s Russia office, and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men, American Gangster) as Peabody, a counterintelligence officer who tries to take her down.
International “Salt” Trailer
The first Russian trailer for Angelina Jolie’s upcoming spy thriller, “Salt” has appeared online.
Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is a patriot. Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world’s most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.
The film, directed by Phillip Noyce (Catch a Fire)from script by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, co-stars Liev Schreiber (Defiance, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as Winter, her ally and supervisor in the CIA’s Russia office, and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men, American Gangster) as Peabody, a counterintelligence officer who tries to take her down.
Angelina Jolie in Talks to Star in Ridley Scott’s “Gucci”
According to Variety, Angelina Jolie is in talks with Ridley Scott to play Patrizia Reggiano in his upcoming film “Gucci,” a true-life drama about murder, decadence and the turbulent relations in and around the Gucci fashion dynasty. Scott has approached his “Body of Lies” star Leonardo DiCaprio to play Maurizio, but he is not attached at this point.
The studio is looking to hire a scribe to re-write the drama that recaptures the glamorous days of the Gucci family dynasty in the 1970s and ’80s, when the family was selling $500 million in product annually. Squabbles hobbled the clan until Maurizio, the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci, came out on top of a power struggle to run the family business. Just when he was about to reestablish the brand name by debuting a line designed by newcomer — and now film director — Tom Ford, Maurizio was gunned down in front of his Milan apartment in 1995.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck to Direct Angelina Jolie in “The Tourist”
While it was rumored last week, IGN has now confirmed that Angelina Jolie will be replacing Charlize Theron and Variety now says that Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is tipped to direct Spyglass thriller “The Tourist” which is set to start production in February 2010.
“The Tourist” will be the first movie for von Donnersmarck since the German director’s 2006 breakout The Lives of Others, which won the Academy Award for foreign-language film.
A remake of 2005 French thriller “Anthony Zimmer“, the story follows an American tourist (Sam Worthington) finds his life in danger when a female Interpol agent (Angelina Jolie) uses him as a dupe to flush out an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair.
Angelina Jolie To Replace Charlize Theron In “The Tourist”
Charlize Theron has been attached to “The Tourist” for a long time but she has left the movie and Angelina Jolie is in talks to replace her in the spy thriller.
Sam Worthington (Avatar, Terminator Salvation, Clash of the Titans) replaced Tom Cruise and will probably star alongside Jolie in a remake of the 2005 French movie “Anthony Zimmer.“
Cruise has been considering the lead since August 2008 and Theron joined up that November. Production was supposed to start in March, but was delayed for a number of reasons. Cruise left to do the untitled James Mangold project “Witchita” with Cameron Diaz.
Now things are scheduled to start again in January 2010.
Angelina Jolie May Return for Wanted 2
Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov recently spoke to RIA Novosti and said that work on Wanted 2 will begin next month, and revealing that he found a way to bring back Angelina Jolie’s character, who died in the first movie.
He also mentioned that another ghost will also be returning as well, Kostya Khabensky who played a bomb expert in Wanted will also be rising from the dead, although he didn’t say anything about the rest of the Fraternity.
Bekmambetov furthermore elaborated on when the principal photography should be starting. “I think in the late autumn or winter shooting will be performed,” he said. “The shooting will take place in America, India and Russia.”
The original “Wanted” was based on a comic book by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, and centered around a secret fraternity of supervillains who had succeeded in destroying or capturing their goody two-shoes counterparts and was secretly running the world. Since its release in June 2008, it has raked in as much as $341.8 million worldwide. It has also been nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
Wanted 2 will hit theaters in 2011.
Angelina Jolie On The Set Of Salt Photos
Here are some pics Angelina Jolie of on the set of her upcoming action/thriller spy movie “Salt.”
Jolie plays CIA operative Evelyn A. Salt who tries to clear her name after she is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent.
The movie directed by Phillip Noyce from script by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland also stars Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
“Salt” shoots in Washington and New York City and it opens in 2010.
Angelina Jolie As Evelyn A. Salt First Look
Two first photos of Angelina Jolie on the Columbia Pictures set of “Salt,” has been revealed by USA Today.
“Salt” originally was called “Edwin A. Salt” when the role was intended for Tom Cruise but now Jolie is in spy thriller as CIA operative Evelyn A. Salt who tries to clear her name after she is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent.
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says it wasn’t simple to change “he” to “she” in the script, the character was literally changed from male to female. The name changed from Edwin to Evelyn A. Salt, and the title of the production shortened to just “Salt.”
“I had no idea how complex it would be,” di Bonaventura says. “We had to rethink the whole notion of how a man vs. a woman operates in the business world, in personal relationship and in friendships.”
A New Lara Croft Movie is in the Works
Warner Bros. are in early development on a reboot of Tomb Raider and Lara Croft could soon be going on a new big-screen mission.
Paramount previously made the two movies based on the popular video game, but the rights have since reverted to Eidos. When WB upped its stake to 19.92% in Eidos in December, films rights to the property were included as part of the deal.
Dan Lin who will produce the next Lara Croft movie, is also the producer behind Warners’ upcoming Guy Ritchie-directed “Sherlock Holmes” and “Terminator Salvation.”
The new project is expected to revamp the character and her mission and bear little resemblance to the original pictures. It will re-imagine the origins of the character, her love interest and the main villain.
Angelina Jolie played the part in 2001’s “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” and in the sequel “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” in 2003. Both films were panned by critics, and Jolie was given a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performances in the two movies.
The first pic, grossed a whopping $275 million worldwide, while the follow-up earned a more modest $157 million.
Angelina Jolie Is Spy In “Edwin A. Salt”
“Edwin A. Salt,” the film was supposed to star Tom Cruise as the title character, an CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy.
But now producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura confirmed to MTV that Angelina Jolie is in the movie.
“Jolie is the first person cast, and she is the most important person to be cast, too. It’s going to be a very exciting film, Phillip Noyce is directing it, and we are going to start in February. It’s a big spy movie on a big canvas with a lot of attitude.”
He also added: “How are we going to get out of this? Who is who? And all the great things you love in an intense spy movie. This has it, and a lot more attitude on top of it.”
We will probably know who is who in the next few months.
