Really no word on the project for some time now, but it appears that Columbia Pictures is still going forward on a sequel to the 2010 spy thriller Salt. Back in June of last year, the studio hired the first film’s scribe, Kurt Wimmer, to start working on a follow up to the Phillip Noyce thriller. After reports that star Angelina Jolie wasn’t too keen on the existing script for the sequel and had yet to sign on, THR now reports that Becky Johnston has been brought in to reconceive the script. Johnston is probably best known for penning the 1991 romantic drama The Prince of Tides as well as the 1997 Brad Pitt-starrer Seven Years in Tibet. There’s no firm word on what the follow up will entail, but the first film involved a CIA officer played by Jolie who discovered that she was actually a Russian sleeper cell agent.
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