The new film, Edwin A. Salt, will now star Angelina Jolie instead of Tom Cruise.

Once expected to star Tom Cruise, the Columbia Pictures espionage thriller will be redrafted by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer as a star vehicle for Angelina Jolie. Philip Noyce remains attached as director and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkashare producing.

Jolie is close to a deal to play the title character, a CIA officer whoÂ’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence.

Cruise had long flirted with the project, but that ended recently. The well-regarded script had several male movie stars circling. Jolie took a liking to it, prompting the studioÂ’s decision to rewrite it. Sources said the project wonÂ’t require that much of an overhaul to suit her.

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