Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov has squashed reports he is looking to sign on Angelina Jolie to a new World War II movie. Photo Credit: Splash NewsNovember 26, 2009, (Splash News) - Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov has squashed reports he is looking to sign on Angelina Jolie to a new World War II movie.
The Oscar-winning director said: "That's the first time I hear about this. [Newspapers] can write anything."
Jolie was rumored to be courted for the part of a school teacher in the movie, titled Love and War, who witnesses the executions of her family and whose fiancé is killed.
Love and War is a Russian-Italian-Moldovan project with directors Mikhalkov and Moldovan directors Francesco Gagliardi and Valeriu Jereghi.
Mikhakov, described by many as Russia's finest living film-maker, said he had no time for new projects and was hard at work on Burnt by the Sun 2, a sequel to the movie that won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1994.
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