Universal circles Angelina Jolie, Doug Liman Spy Movie “The Initative”

Angelina Jolie will be seen in the new spy thriller “The Initiative”, who reunited herself with her director “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, Doug Liman.

Universal is in conversations to land the hot project with F. Scott Frazier (“Collide”, “XXX: The Return of Xander Cage”) to write the script – detailed details for which are kept under closure – and Jeff Kirschenbaum to produce for Roth/Kirchenbaum films. Like Liman, RK films also has a solid relationship with Jolie when Disney's hit “Maleficent” films supported the title role.

While the details of action are kept under closure, “The Initiative” Jolie would like to return to the Slick -Action Throwns that made you made a box office mate, including “Salt”, “The Tourist” and “Searched”.

If the deal with Universal Closps, the Executive VP of Production Development Jay Polidoro and the director of development manager Tony Ducret will monitor the project for the studio.

Jolie winner of the best supporting actress Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted”, was most recently seen in Pablo Larraín's “Maria”, where she received enthusiastic reviews for the representation of the famous soprano Maria Callas. The upcoming Jolie plays in Alice Winocour's bilingual drama “Couture”, which she also produced and is intended for the feature adaptation of “anxious people” by Marc Foster. Her director resume includes “First she killed my father”, which she also produced and wrote along. the Oscar-nominated biopic “unbroken”; And the upcoming film “Without Blood” with Salma Hayek Pinault and Demian Bichir, based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco. She is also a Tony winner as a producer of the Broadway musical “The Outsiders”. Jolie is resumed by WME and Johnson Shapiro.

Liman – The last “Roadhouse”, a big hit for Amazon MGM Studios, and “The Initigations” on Apple TV+ continued his course with Universal after staging the “The Bourne Identity” from 2002 and “American Made” from 2017 in the presentation of Tom Cruise. Liman and Cruise are currently developing a film for the studio that is made entirely in space.

Liman, Frazier and Kirschenbaum are resumed by CaA. Liman is also resumed by wine graying Tobin and Frazier by McKuin Frankel.

The Hollywood reporter broke news about the development of the project.