Angelina Jolie may be the busiest person in the world. She is adopting Vietnamese children, touring the world trying to raise awareness for just about ever cause imagineable and has four films already set up in the next two years and another in which she is rumored to be doing with Clint Eastwood.
The film this article is in relation to is Wanted, in which she will star alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman for Night Watch helmer Timur Bekmambetov.
Jolie has already finished filming on A Mighty Heart, which she stars in with her man, Brad Pitt, and is set for release on June 22, 2007. She also a pair of animated films in which she will supply her voice, Beowulf and Kung Fu Panda. However, she will be making Wanted her next film with shooting to begin in Eastern Europe in May.
The film is an action film based on a graphic novel. McAvoy will play a young man who discovers his father is an assassin, only to learn shortly thereafter that his dad has been murdered. The youth is drafted to follow in his father’s footsteps. Jolie will play an assassin who teaches the ropes to the wannabe killer.
Word from Variety goes on to say that the script was originated by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, and Jolie took the role after a rewrite by Dean Georgaris (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) to tailor the character for her.
The only other film I have not yet mentioned Jolie is rumored to be involved with is Atlas Shrugged, a Randall Wallace-scripted adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel for Lionsgate.
