Angelina Jolie has lined another project to star in and produce. She's joined the team making new novel adaptation The Kept.
Adapted from James Scott's 2014 tome by Lady Macbeth's Alice Birch, the story is set in the winter of 1897, and follows a trio of killers that descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell (Jolie) returns home to the carnage: her husband and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. Caleb, who is 12 years old, must tend to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in search of the men responsible.
There's no director attached to this one just yet, so it'll have to cool its heels in development for a while. Jolie is busy anyway; she's just finished working on Maleficent 2 and has just kicked off shooting Come Away.
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