Angelina Jolie is about to star within the new spy thriller “The Initiative,” reuniting together with her “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” director Doug Liman.
Common is in talks to land the new mission with F. Scott Frazier (“Collide,” “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage”) connected to put in writing the screenplay — plot particulars for that are being stored below wraps — and Jeff Kirschenbaum to provide for Roth/Kirschenbaum Movies. Like Liman, RK Movies additionally has a stable relationship with Jolie as the corporate backed Disney’s hit “Maleficent” films, during which she performed the title position.
Whereas plot particulars are being stored below wraps, “The Initiative” appears to be like to return Jolie to the slick motion thrillers that made her a field workplace megastar, together with “Salt,” “The Vacationer” and “Wished.”
If the take care of Common closes, government VP of manufacturing improvement Jay Polidoro and director of improvement Tony Ducret will oversee the mission for the studio.
Winner of the very best supporting actress Oscar for “Woman, Interrupted,” Jolie was most just lately seen in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” the place she earned rave critiques for portraying famed soprano Maria Callas. Upcoming, Jolie stars in Alice Winocour’s bilingual drama “Couture,” which she additionally produced, and is about for the function adaptation of “Anxious Individuals” from Marc Foster. Her directing résumé contains “First They Killed My Father,” which she additionally produced and co-wrote; the Oscar-nominated biopic “Unbroken”; and the upcoming movie “With out Blood”, starring Salma Hayek Pinault and Demian Bichir, primarily based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco. She can also be a Tony winner as a producer of the Broadway musical “The Outsiders.” Jolie is repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro.
Liman — who most just lately helmed “Roadhouse,” an enormous hit for Amazon MGM Studios, and “The Instigations” on Apple TV+ — continues his run with Common after he directed 2002’s “The Bourne Identification” and 2017’s “American Made,” starring Tom Cruise. Liman and Cruise are at present growing a film for the studio, which shall be shot solely in house.
Liman, Frazier and Kirschenbaum are repped by CAA. Liman can also be repped by Weintraub Tobin and Frazier by McKuin Frankel.
The Hollywood Reporter broke information of the mission’s improvement.
