
So, perhaps the name will just be Edwina Salt?
In a curious gender switch and swapping of big Hollywood names, the espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt will now feature Angelina Jolie [1] in the starring role, as a replacement for Tom Cruise. Apparently, Jolie "took a liking" to the script.
Jolie: The extremely profitable action star.
Variety has more details on this change of events:
After Universal beefed up Jolie's role in Wanted [2] 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.
Probably a smart move.
While I know not everyone loves Jolie, she didn't get quite as many comments as Tom Cruise did from people saying they would boycott any movie [3] she's in. As for Cruise himself, he's rumored to be possibly starring in a comedy titled Food Fight [4], in which Cruise would play "a snooty New York chef who is forced to cook meals at a school cafeteria."
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