The buzz today in Hollywod is that the only female in the Top 10 Box Office stars of America, Ms. Angelina Jolie, wants to be a High Arts Coroner.
Jolie has had meeting with author, Patricia Cornwell, to turn her bestselling book series on Kay Scarpetta, an Opera Loving medical examiner, into a film series.
Jolie will star in the films and she’s teaming up with Fox 200 and Cornwell to make the deal happen. I think that’s smart, having watched how The Twilight Kids and also how Matt Damon are rocking it starring in films that have a proven book audience and market, Jolie has decided that a book series is the way to go for her too.
Nice one Angelina, a good transition that gives some stability and regularity to raising a growing family of six Jolie-Pitt celebu-tots.
Variety reports that: ‘There are 16 Scarpetta novels, meaning a franchise is hoped for, but this film won’t be tied to a specific Cornwell mystery title. Much the way that Jason Bourne morphed into an action hero in plots not rigidly locked into the Robert Ludlum book series, the opera-loving coroner Scarpetta will be the lead in a suspense thriller in the vein of “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Seven.”
Deal is a mega-marriage, with Jolie one of the most bankable female movie stars, and Cornwell one of the biggest selling female authors in the world. Cornwell, whose latest installment “Scarpetta” was published last December by Putnam, last year made a deal with Lifetime Television to adapt two non-Scarpetta novels, “At Risk” and “The Front.”
Jolie is one busy working Momma, here’s what else she has on the boil: ‘Jolie is starring in the Phillip Noyce-directed “Salt” for Columbia Pictures. She will reprise the voice for her Tigress character in “Kung Fu Panda” sequel and she awaits a script for a “Wanted” sequel that would potentially re-team her with director Timur Bekmambetov and James McAvoy at Universal.
Wow, how does she get her beauty sleep? And now the real question is, while Angelina is set for a lucrative movie career, what is her man, Brad Pitt going to do while Angie looks so fab in a potential blockbuster new series and body of work? All pressure’s on Brad to keep up with his leading lady now!
