Angelina Jolie has been hired to star in Universal Pictures' bigscreen adaptation of the graphic novel, WANTED, reports VARIETY. James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman have already signed on and NIGHT WATCH director Timur Bekmambetov will helm.
McAvoy (LAST KING OF SCOTLAND) plays a young man who soon after learning his dad is an assassin, discovers that his father has been murdered. Jolie will take on the role of an assassin who educates the youth man in the ways of an assassin.
Michael Brandt and Derek Haas penned the original draft of the script, which was rewritten for Jolie by Dean Georgaris (LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE).
Marc Platt, Jim Lemley, Jason Netter and Iain Smith are producing.
The film will start lensing n Eastern Europe in May.
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