Angelina Jolie Replaces Tom Cruise for “Edwin A. Salt” movie

The assassin is now a spy after reports that Angelina Jolie will replace Tom Cruise in the Columbia Pictures spy thriller "Edwin A. Salt".

Jolie is close to a deal to play the title character, Variety reports. If everything falls into place "Edwin A. Salt" will undergo a title change, and Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer will rewrite the story.

She was described as "a rare female who is viable in an action genre that has been almost the exclusive domain of men.”

Angelina will play a CIA officer who's accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence.

Schedule to hit the theaters in 2009.