Angelina Jolie will star in a screen adaptation of the 16 crime novel series by contemporary American crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Photo Credit: Splash NewsApril 23, 2009, (Sawf News) - Angelina Jolie will star in a screen adaptation of the 16 crime novel series by contemporary American crime writer Patricia Cornwell.
The film, to be produced by Fox 2000, will not be locked to any one book, and could well spawn a popular crime thriller franchise.
Jolie will play the title role of forensic examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta, a woman with a messy love life who solves crime and loves the opera.
The deal was signed only after Cornwell met Jolie and "found common ground on the creative direction".
The Scarpetta novels feature extensive use of forensic investigation to solve murder mysteries and are believed to have influenced the development of popular TV series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cold Case Files.
Cornwell has worked as a crime reporter for The Charlotte Observer and at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Virginia as a technical writer and computer analyst.
She was embroiled in a controversy when in her 2002 book, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed, she accused noted painter Walter Sickert of being the serial killer. Her conclusions and methods have been widely criticized.
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