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In what Jennifer Aniston might think of as a case of typecasting, Angelina Jolie is set to play an evil temptress in a new epic from director Robert Zemeckis.
Jolie is the latest A-list talent to come aboard the big-budget adaptation of the epic medieval tale Beowulf, joining the likes of Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Brendan Gleeson, Robin Wright Penn and Crispin Glover. (The latter two are veterans of Zemeckis flicks: Penn costarred as the love interest in the filmmaker's Best Picture-winning Forrest Gump, while Glover shot to fame portraying the famously wimpy George McFly in Back to the Future.)
Beowulf stars Ray Winstone (best known as the gangster in Sexy Beast) as the viking hero who saves his land from the clutches of the terrible monster Grendel (Glover). Along the way to becoming king, the great warrior is tempted to commit evil by Grendel's mother (Jolie).
Beowulf, originally written in the eighth century, is being adapted to the screen by Neil Gaiman, best known as the author of The Sandman graphic novels, and Roger Avary, who shared an Oscar for cowriting Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino. The film is being coproduced by Zemeckis and his ImageMovers partners Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke.
Like his previous picture, The Polar Express, Zemeckis plans to shoot Beowulf using state-of-the-art performance-capture technology that will allow him to animate the actors and create computer-generated landscapes to depict the fantastical action and settings described in the poem. He also used the same process for Monster House, set for release next summer.
Jolie has plenty of maternal experience, whether onscreen in her Oedipal turn as Colin Farrell's sexy mom Olympia in last year's box-office dud Alexander, or in real life as the mother of two adopted children.
Shooting on Beowulf is slated to begin this fall, and Paramount has targeted the action-adventure for a summer 2007 release.
Jolie has been keeping plenty busy of late. After making headlines playing family with her Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar and good buddy Brad Pitt and adopting daughter Zahara from Ethiopia this summer, she was granted honorary Cambodian citizenship last week for her environmental work in that East Asian country. (Her son Maddox is a native Cambodian.)
She begins work in Manhattan this week on another high-profile project, Universal's The Good Shepherd, a drama chronicling the 40-year history of the CIA that's being directed by Robert De Niro and stars Matt Damon.
Jolie will play wife to Damon's Edward Wilson, a Yale graduate who's recruited at the start of World War II into the Office of Strategic Services and becomes one of the founding fathers of the CIA, helping steer the agency through decades of Cold War conflict.
The film also stars De Niro, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, John Turturro, Billy Crudup, Timothy Hutton, Keir Dullea and Michael Gambon.
Finally, Jolie is also getting her own MTV special, The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, which follows her as she travels to impoverished villages in Kenya and to report on the health crisis that has befallen the country. It airs Sept. 14.
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