Philip Noyce’s espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt is undergoing a gender change. According to Variety, Tom Cruise is out as its lead, and Angelina Jolie, who previously worked with Noyce on The Bone Collector, is all but officially in. A sort of on-the-lam, procedural actioner, one presumes, the movie is described as being about a CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper
spy. He… errr, now she must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence. OK, a little bit The Fugitive, a little bit Breach, a little bit another movie I’m currently blanking on… I can get on board. One wonders, though, if the title will merely receive an extra vowel, or be reworked into something lame and anonymous. If they could somehow just come up with a justification for Salt Lick, the poster would make itself, and this thing would be huuuuge…