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Jolie to play widow of journalist Daniel Pearl

Actress Angelina Jolie will star in a movie as the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, trade paper Daily Variety reported in its Thursday edition.

"A Mighty Heart," adapted from Mariane Pearl's memoir of the same name, will begin shooting within the next five weeks, the paper said. The book details Pearl's search for her husband, who was abducted and beheaded by militants in Pakistan in early 2002.

"I am delighted that Angelina Jolie will be playing my role in the adaptation of my book," Daily Variety quoted Pearl as saying. "I deeply admire her work and what she is committed to."

English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, famed for such war-based films as "Welcome to Sarajevo" and "The Road to Guantanamo," will direct. Jolie's boyfriend, actor Brad Pitt, will serve as a producer of the project, which is set up at Paramount Vantage, the art-house arm of Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures.

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Angelina Jolie has been set to star, Variety reported.

Neil Gaiman, who is co-writing the screenplay for Robert Zemeckis' upcoming computer-animated movie based on Beowu/f, wrote in his online blog that the film will differ from the epic Anglo-Saxon poem.

"Books aren't films, and poems aren't films even more than books aren't films," Gaiman wrote. "When Roger Avary and i wrote it originally, we decided that anything that was actually reported as happening in the original poem happened like that, but that anything where we only have someone in the story's word for it what happened might-or might not-have happened like that. But we stili didn't try to put everything in the poem onto the screen."

Angelina Jolie has been set to star, Variety reported. Jolie will play the queen of darkness, who tempts the Viking hero as he makes his way in the quest to become king. She joins Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson and Robin Wright Penn in the film, which will be made with the same performance-capture technique Zemeckis used in The Polar Express.

"When Bob Zemeckis bought the script and assumed the director's mantle, he wanted some smail changes from the narrative of the poem and one big change, which, because we understood why he wanted them made, we were willing to make," Gaiman said.

"And then there was some trimming to do before the film gets shot. (It's not an epic. It's really a story about how the choices we make when we're young can affect us when we're old, and even that's probably saying too much.)" But, Gaiman added, there will be one thing the same: "Yes, there is stili some Old English in it." Dark Horizons reported that John Malkovich may voice a character in Beowu/f. Malkovich made the comments at the Locamo Film Festival in Switzerland, the site reported.