Angelina Jolie is headed back to the director’s chair. The 47-year-old Oscar winner will direct and write the upcoming film Without Blood, marking her first big-screen directing project since 2017’s First They Killed My Father, reports Variety.
Produced under Fremantle and the star’s Jolie Productions, Without Blood is set to star Salma Hayek (whom Jolie recently appeared with in Eternals) and Demián Bichir.
According to Variety, the film will touch on “universal truths about war, trauma, memory and healing,” and is based on Italian author Alessandro Baricco’s best-selling novel of the same name.
“I’m honored to be here in Italy to bring this very special material to film, and to have been entrusted by Alessandro Baricco with the adaptation of his book – with its unique poetry and emotion and way of looking at war, and the questions it poses about what we search for after trauma or loss or injustice,” Jolie said, per Variety.
Without Blood is the first project in Jolie’s three-year international filmmaking agreement with Fremantle. “To have the freedom to tell important stories and bring them to a global audience is at the heart of this agreement with Fremantle,” Jolie in a March news release at the time.
“I am excited to be working with such a passionate and forward-looking team that has an international perspective,” Jolie added. -People
