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Angelina replacing Tom

Posted on Friday, Aug. 22, 2008
by Cineplex Entertainment

Angelina Jolie

So long Edwin and hello...Edwina?

In an odd casting twist, ‘Variety’ reports that Angelina Jolie will be replacing Tom Cruise in the espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt.

Cruise has backed out and due to Jolie’s previous performances in Tomb Raider, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Wanted, Columbia Pictures has decided to alter the script and the character to fit Jolie instead. It is reported that not much needs to be done to incorporate a female spy instead of a male one.

Directed by Philip Noyce and written by Kurt Wimmer, Edwin tells the story of a CIA agent on the run after being falsely accused of collaborating with the Russians.

Jolie, who recently gave birth to twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Léon on July 12th, is also set to star in The Mercenary: Love and Honor and perhaps as Dagny Taggart in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

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