ANGELINA JOLIE SMITTEN BY WEREWOLVES
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[ October 15th 2002 ]

Actress Angelina Jolie, whose love of the macabre has filled the tabloids, is set to howl at the moon in Bitten, a movie about a female werewolf. The project is based on a novel by Kelley Armstrong, which Warner Bros. optioned on the basis of a treatment by Alexander Stuart, who will also write the script.

Jolie will play a woman who turns into a werewolf after she gets bitten and lives among a clandestine wolf pack in Canada. She finally decides to suppress her animalistic tendencies for a normal human life, becomes a journalist and falls in love. She is drawn back to her pack, though, when a rogue band of werewolves begins drafting criminals into its pack.

The novel has some of the mythological wolf angst presence in films like Wolf and An American Werewolf in London. Jolie is currently starring in Tomb Raider 2: Cradle of Life for director Jan de Bont and is then expected to follow with the Warner Bros.-based drama Taking Lives.