VIDEO: Angelina Jolie Addresses Cleopatra, Maleficent, Scarpetta Roles

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Given her packed household, it’s understandable why anyone would question all the rumors surrounding Angelina Jolie’s career. Could she really be attached to play Cleopatra, Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent and Kay Scarpetta?

In an interview with MTV, the Salt actress said she would happily welcome a Tim Burton collaboration. “I would love to,” Jolie said about Maleficent. “It’s all new and being discussed, but I loved her when I was a little girl. She was my favorite. The chance to work with [Tim] would be just extraordinary.”

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Angelina Jolie to Play Kay Scarpetta on the Big Screen

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If you don’t recognize both the headlining names, you haven’t been reading Patricia Cornwell. The extremely popular, death-themed books that make up the Kay Scarpetta series (which totals a staggering 17 novels over a span of 20 years) could finally be coming to the big screen after numerous attempts to make it happen. The actress who’s making it all possible? Possibly, the last one you would ever expect to play the doctor-lawyer-heroine that is Kay Scarpetta: Angelina Jolie.

The statuesque actress does not at all fit Cornwell’s description of Scarpetta, who is a petite ash-blonde. A medical examiner, Kay is a workaholic, oft-unattached female who uses her death investigation skills to track dangerous serial killers. Commonly, Scarpetta herself becomes a target for the very killers she’s determined to catch. The books originally debuted in pre-CSI ages when crime scene and death investigation felt fresh again (memories of Quincey, ME had long since faded).

Jolie’s interest has breathed new life into the flick, which has been an on-again, off-again project since the books were first published. The movie will not be based upon a specific Cornwell novel. Instead, it will feature a younger Dr. Scarpetta in the years before she becomes the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia - though, oddly, the film will be set in the present day instead of the 1980s (which would fit the chronological order of the books).

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