Salt is an upcoming American action thriller film directed
by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring
Angelina Jolie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Liev Schreiber. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt,
accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, on the run to try to clear her name.
While Tom Cruise was initially secured for the lead, he was unable to commit to
the role because of commitments to other projects, and the script was
ultimately rewritten for Jolie.
Filming took place on location in Washington ,
DC and New
York City between March and June 2009. Jolie was taken
to the hospital after suffering a head injury on set but was released the same
day where filming resumed. The film will have a panel at the San Diego
Comic-Con on July 22 and will be released in North America on July 23, 2010,
and August 20, 2010, in the United
Kingdom .