Artnewspress :
Angelina Jolie has signed on to write, direct and produce the drama Without Blood, based on the international-bestselling novel by Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. The film will star Salma Hayek Pinault (Frida, Eternals) and Demián Bichir (A Better Life, The Hateful Eight). The film is set in the aftermath of an unidentified conflict, and it’s billed as exploring “universal truths about war, trauma, memory and healing.”
Hayek Pinault and Bichir will star alongside an international cast and production team. Principal photography has begun in the Puglia (Apulia) and Basilicata regions of southern Italy, as well as in Rome.
Without Blood is Jolie’s fifth film as a director, and her first under her filmmaking pact with Fremantle in March this year. Jolie and Fremantle will jointly develop an internationally focused slate of feature films, documentaries and original series.
