Angelina Jolie announced yesterday that she’d work behind the camera for the first time to direct a film she’d scripted and that she’ll also produce, about a love story set during the Bosnian War.
GK Films has hired screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (Valkyrie) to script the big-screen adaptation of Unforgiven, a British television series broadcast on the English network ITV1 in 2009.
Unforgiven tells the story of a woman who is convicted for the murders of two police officers. She beomes the target of revenge when she is released from prison, fifteen years later, reports Deadline.
It isn’t yet known what Jolie’s new film will be called, as Clint Eastwood already used the title Unforgiven in 1992 for his Oscar-winning Western.
Meanwhile, Angelina Jolie costars with Johnny Depp in The Tourist, which opens December 10. She’ll also voice Tigress in Kung Fu Panda 2, which hits theaters May 26, 2011.