Salt
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Opens July 23, 2010
Wanted star Jolie gets conspiratorial in this action thriller as Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent pegged by a Russian defector as an enemy spy intending to kill the president. As the full force of the U.S. government descends upon her, she’s forced to go rogue to uncover the truth about her role in the assassination plot.
What We Think: Are you ready for Bourne in high heels? We are. Jolie is probably the only actress alive with the skillset required to pull of such a role, and we believe that Schreiber has the potential to become the Alan Rickman of buttoned-down bureaucrat baddies.
Cool to Know: Salt had been slated to star Tom Cruise, but he bailed during pre-production, citing concerns that rewrites of the film’s script rendered it too similar to Mission: Impossible. It’s a pity, because he’d have looked positively ravishing in that blonde wig.
