Sunday
30Nov2008
Jolie's Spy Movie Completes Sex Change, Now Called 'Erika Salt'
Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 7:10PM
We've been charting the progress of the movie that used
to be known as
Edwin A. Salt for about six months. The many
angles on this story began with a whisper that
Tom Cruise,
who had been kinda sorta developing the movie or watching it while it developed
or something, was deemed a bad financial fit for the movie, meaning he either
wanted too much coin for what his name means on opening weekends these days.
So that's where we are. The film has an intriguing premise: A CIA officer is pegged as a Russian sleeper cell agent who's plotting to kill the President. Salt has to clear his (or her) name before the third act of The Shooter breaks out.
But what to do with the name? Edwin A. Salt had a memorable kind of simplicity, but that wouldn't work for Angelina Jolie. So instead, the spy-on-the-run flick is now going to be called Erika Salt, according to Cinema Blend. It's a very simple thing, of course, but going with "Erika" instead of "Erica" gives the character and the title a little more of an edge. I dunno how it works; it's psychology, like painting a room soft yellow makes it peaceful.
Jolie has been down this road before, and I sincerely believe she's the best female action star on the planet. She sells tickets, she's hot, she can act, her action scenes are as believable as anyone else's, the end. The last we heard, Angelina will be working with director Philip Noyce on Erika Salt, and he's no slouch when it comes to covert missions and all the rest. Plus, he directed a young Jolie in The Bone Collector.
I think it's got some potential in the post-Bourne world, so long as they don't try to make it too much of a copycat.
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The Bone Collector is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.