Angelina Jolie Set to Return for Salt Sequel, But Does Anyone Care?

Director Phillip Noyce’s Salt certainly wasn’t an awful film. But it hardly broke any new ground or offered any pleasant surprises. In an era where films like The Bourne saga and Casino Royale show us how good espionage-thrillers can be, lesser films seem like just so much filler.
Mind you, it might be arrogant to suggest that a Salt sequel is the answer to a question no one was asking. The film did decently at the box office. On a budget of approximately $110M, it managed a respectable world wide gross of $292M. Such numbers typically lead to sequels, which is where we find ourselves today.
According to Deadline, development has begun on a second installment, with Kurt Wimmer (who wrote the original) also penning the follow-up. Moreover, Angelina Jolie is expected to return to the title role.
For those who missed it, the original film starred Jolie as CIA officer Evelyn Salt who, after being accused of being a Russian spy, goes on the run in an attempt to prove her innocence.
So to answer the question posited in our own headline, while we might not care whether Salt gets a sequel, there are clearly enough people out there — at least according to the financial arithmetic — who may care enough to see Jolie take at least one more turn as Evelyn Salt.
Meanwhile, Jolie is next expected to make her directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey, a romance set against the Bosnian war, which she also wrote.
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