According to Variety, the Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima director will be behind the camera for the project from Universal.
Jolie would play a woman whose son is abducted but retrieved. She suspects, however, that the returned child is not her kid. The woman must then confront corruption in the LAPD. The story is based on true events in 1920s Los Angeles.
The Changeling will begin filming later this year.