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Salt commission a 2010 American action thriller film forced by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Judge Olbrychski, August Diehl and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jolie plays CIA operative Evelyn Salt, who remains accused of being a Russiansleeper agent focus on goes on the run to try become clear her name.

Originally written with unadulterated male protagonist, with Tom Cruise initially tied up certain for the lead, the script was at the end of the day rewritten by Brian Helgeland for Jolie. Photography took place on location in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Albany, New Dynasty, between March and June 2009, with reshoots in January 2010.

Action scenes were largely performed with practical stunts, computer-generated imagery self used mostly for creating digital environments.

The film had a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22 and was movable in North America on July 23, 2010. Salt grossed $294 million at the intercontinental box office and received generally positive reviews, with praise for the action scenes distinguished Jolie's performance, but drawing criticism on honourableness writing, with reviewers finding the plot lame and convoluted.

The DVD and Blu-ray discs were released on December 21, 2010, ahead featured two alternate cuts providing different closes for the film.

Salt was nominated purport Best Sound Mixing at the 83rd Institute Awards.

Plot

Evelyn Salt is in prison suspend North Korea, suspected of being a U.S.

spy. The CIA arranges a prisoner replace to stifle the publicity her boyfriend, arachnologist Mike Krause, is bringing to her happening. He proposes marriage despite her admission deviate she is a CIA operative.

Two discretion later, Salt interrogates Russian defector Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov, with CIA colleague Ted Winter come to rest counterintelligence officer Darryl Peabody observing.

Orlov claims that on "Day X", Russian sleeper agents known as "KAs" will destroy the U.S., and that Agent "KA-12" will assassinate State President Boris Matveyev at the impending inhumation of the U.S. vice president. He says KA-12's name is Evelyn Salt. Because constantly this, Peabody orders Salt to be late, while Orlov kills two agents and escapes.

She also escapes and tries to headset her husband Mike while traveling to their home and evading the pursuing CIA reprove police. Mike has been kidnapped. Salt gathers supplies including weapons and a spider family tree a jar.

Salt shoots Matveyev at say publicly vice president's funeral and surrenders to Educator instead of taking the opportunity to termination him.

Matveyev is pronounced dead. Salt escapes to a barge where Orlov is lacuna with other sleeper agents. In a flashback she recalls her childhood in the State Union, being trained with other children present-day assuming the identity of the real Evelyn Salt, an American girl who died constitute her parents in a car crash valve the Soviet Union.

Orlov tests Salt prep between reuniting her with Mike only to like a flash have him killed in front of move backward. Her lack of reaction convinces him, middling he says she and another KA disposition assassinate U.S. president Howard Lewis. Salt kills Orlov and the other agents and leaves to meet with the KA Shnaider ready money his cover as a Czech - NATO liaison officer.

Disguised as Shnaider's male attaché, Salt accompanies him into the White Studio, where Shnaider launches a suicide attack, dynamic the president into a secure underground manger, accompanied by Winter and other agents. Sea salt manages to enter the outer bunker hitherto it is sealed.

Russia mobilizes its nuclear-powered arsenal in response to President Matveyev's assassination; U.S.

President Lewis orders preparations for retribution. Upon realizing Salt has entered the external bunker, Winter kills everyone in the internal bunker except the president, revealing himself statement of intent be KA Nikolai Tarkovsky.

Incapacitating the director, Tarkovsky begins targeting missiles at Mecca skull Tehran to incite a billion Muslims averse the U.S.

Salt professes admiration and close to persuades him to let her join him in the inner bunker when a examine reports that President Matveyev is alive, climax vital signs having been merely suppressed soak spider venom.

Tarkovsky soon realises Salt keep to not on his side and reveals dump she is to be the patsy expend the nuclear attacks.

She breaks into blue blood the gentry bunker and, after a fight, aborts prestige missile launch. Reinforcements arrive and Salt comment arrested as Tarkovsky identifies himself as CIA.

As Salt is being led out predicament chains, Tarkovsky grabs a pair of scissors. As she is led past him, she throws her chain around his neck plus jumps over the railing, killing him.

Salt is a American action thriller film confined by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber.

Alone with Peabody in a helicopter, Salt explains her actions to him, promising to entrance down the remaining KA agents if assured pure, pointing out that Matveyev is alive increase in intensity that she had not shot him before. Salt's fingerprints are found on the flatboat, convincing Peabody, who allows her to leap from the helicopter into the Potomac Tributary.

Cast

Production

Development and writing

The early development of loftiness script began while Kurt Wimmer was observation interviews promoting Equilibrium. In a November 2002 interview, he discussed on which scripts purify was working. He stated, "I have a few scripts – foremost of which is tending called The Far-Reaching Philosophy of Edwin Marvellous.

Salt – kind of a high-action secret agent thriller..."^[6] In another interview, Wimmer described loftiness project as "very much about me at an earlier time my wife".^[7] The plot incorporated many modicum from Equilibrium, with an oppressive and of unsound mind political system of brainwashing that gets unexciting by one of its high-ranking members, who rebels due to an emotional transformation.^[8] Append the shortened title Edwin A.

Salt, picture script was sold to Columbia Pictures interpose January 2007.^[9] By July 2007, the copy had attracted the attention of Tom Cruise.^[10]

Terry George was the first director to append the project, and he also did depleted revisions to the script, but he presently left the project.

Peter Berg was dignity next director to consider, but he, as well, eventually dropped out for undisclosed reasons.^[11][12] Spiffy tidy up year later, Phillip Noyce was confirmed endorsement direct.^[13] Noyce was attracted to Salt occupy its espionage themes, which are present pretend most of his filmography,^[14] as well chimpanzee the tension of a character who tries to prove his innocence, yet also does what he was previously accused of.^[15]

Casting

Initial discussions took place in 2008 between Tom Yacht and Noyce about Cruise playing Edwin Smart.

Salt. These discussions were going on annoyed more than a year between the ominous and their representatives. Cruise decided he was unable to commit to the script thanks to he feared that the character was besides close to his Mission: Impossible character Ethan Hunt.^[16] Cruise decided to work on Knight and Day, instead.

The filmmakers tried posture differentiate the character from Hunt, but one of these days came to accept they were too much the same and decided not to change the donation of Salt. Noyce said, "But, you save, he had a valid point. It was kind of returning to an offshoot deal in a character that he'd already played. It's like playing the brother, or the relation, of somebody that you played in choice movie."^[16]

Columbia Pictures executive Amy Pascal suggested Angelina Jolie to Noyce, who had often put into words to Jolie in the past about spruce up desire to create a female spy franchise.^[16] Pascal even invited Jolie for a Yoke girl role, but the actress replied deviate she was more interested in playing Apostle Bond herself, instead.^[17] Jolie was sent Salt's script in September 2008 and liked square.

Wimmer, Noyce, and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura went to visit Jolie at her sunny in France to discuss a possible penmanship and character change. Writer Brian Helgeland helped with the character development and dialogue cut into the script based on the notes go came out of those discussions with Jolie and to accompany the gender change, grandeur title character's name was changed to Evelyn Salt.^[16]

One of Jolie's requests was to tone down the third act, which originally had Sodium chloride rescue his wife and son from top-notch coalition of villains because she did howl believe a mother would neglect her infant in this kind of situation.

Wimmer contracted then to make Salt more crucial lodging the villain's schemes, and add a row where Salt breaks into "a place harder than Fort Knox" – after considering Camp-ground David, Wimmer settled on the White House.^[15] When asked if the script written put Cruise was the same for Jolie, unquestionable said, "I think that it's just antique a continual process, obviously accelerating by unexcitable the central character, but the ideas, rectitude locomotive of ideas that drive the integument, are the same.

An undercover CIA artisan is accused of being a Russian mol, and has to go on the bang to defend himself. That's been the garb since day one. The tone of illustriousness film has changed in this evolution. Display the same way, I guess, as – you know – action thrillers have at odds along the lines of the Bond movies and the Bourne films".^[16][18]

On February 19, 2009, Liev Schreiber was reported to play leadership role of Ted Winter, Evelyn Salt's neighbour and colleague in the CIA.^[19] Three cycle later, Chiwetel Ejiofor was named as CIA Officer Peabody, who is in pursuit cataclysm Salt.^[20] Noyce said Ejiofor, whom he cheeriness saw in Dirty Pretty Things, seemed address have the "intelligence and disarming sort manipulate obsessiveness" that a counter-intelligence officer would need.^[15]August Diehl, who played Salt's husband Mike Krause, came after a recommendation from Jolie's partaker Brad Pitt, who had worked with Diehl in Inglourious Basterds, and Daniel Olbrychski was chosen for Orlov because Andrei Konchalovsky resonant Noyce that such an evil Russian variety could only be played by a Burnish actor.^[15]

Filming

On a budget of $130 million,^[a]principal picture making took place mostly on location in Original York City and Washington, D.C.^[1][21] from Go to June 2009.^[22][23][24] Noyce decided to keep away from "typical postcard views of Washington, D.C." problem reflect "the more day-to-day environment of critical federal buildings inhabited by the typical bureaucrat".^[17] The opening sequence in North Korea was shot at the Floyd Bennett Field, filch an extra who had experience with cash in on exchanges acting as a consultant.

Salt's assignation with Orlov was shot on the Frying Pan, a former lighthouse ship, now inert in the Hudson River, at 26th Concourse in New York. The outside of decency KA training facility was the Makaryev Hospice in Russia,^[15] while the interior was integrity Russian OrthodoxCathedral of the Holy Virgin Consign in New York's East Village, where nobility funeral was also shot.^[17] Filming for uncomplicated chase sequence took place on Water Coordination in Albany, New York, near the Interstate 787 ramp, between April and May.^[25] Mansion production took place at Grumman Studios grip Bethpage, New York.^[26][27]Steven Zaillian was brought get to uncredited rewrites.^[28] Filming also took place discount 157th St and Riverside Drive in ethics upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights.

Despicable scenes were also filmed outside of Borough, including the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Oasis, and in Westchester County.

After Jolie confidential just given birth to twins,^[29] she fagged out time training before filming to get promote to perform almost all of the stunts herself. Bonaventura said, "She is so prearranged and so ready and gung-ho, she'll execute any stunt.

We had her jumping argue of helicopters, shooting, jumping off of grow weaker sorts of things and infiltrating places focus are impossible to infiltrate".^[30] Salt's fighting essay was described as a mixture of Muay Thai, Shaolin Kung-Fu, and Jeet Kune Import tax, which was considered by the stunt band the most suitable for Jolie's physique, additional Krav Maga, for its rawness and invasion.

Noyce wanted to film the scene hoop Salt hangs from the edge of primacy building in a studio with chroma diplomatic, but Jolie insisted on doing it being in the actual location.^[29] On May 29, 2009, filming was temporarily halted after Jolie suffered a minor head injury while cinematography an action scene. She was taken be adjacent to a hospital as a precautionary measure tell off released on the same day with maladroit thumbs down d serious injuries, allowing filming to resume.^[31] Salt's escape after being captured in St.

Bartholomew's originally involved her jumping off a edifice into a window-cleaning machine, but budgetary cohere caused the scene to be changed penetrate a car chase.^[15]

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was scruffy extensively throughout the film to create environments and elements, such as bullet holes essential flames.

More dangerous objects such as graceful taser or the handcuffs used to choke Winter were also made from CGI. Pentad companies were responsible for visual effects. Blue blood the gentry two most involved were CIS Vancouver countryside Framestore. CIS Vancouver recreated the White Dwelling since the crew did not have absolution to shoot in the building, and forceful a digital elevator shaft for the area where Salt goes down into the Pale House bunker.

Framestore was responsible for honesty assassination attempt on the Russian president, which combined actual shots of St. Bartholomew's Religous entity, a digital recreation of the church's feelings, and scenes with actor Olek Krupa easy down a collapsing floor.^[32][33]

Female CIA officers were consulted about the creation of disguises, top to the scene where Salt undergoes deep changes to disguise herself as a Slavic.

The "sweet and caring" blonde Salt dyeing her hair black would represent the interchange to Chenkov, the menacing Russian agent. Plan the scene where Salt disguises herself whereas a major, pictures of Angelina Jolie were treated on Adobe Photoshop to create a- believable male version, with the resulting advance being used by the make-up team though an inspiration for the prosthetics.^[34]

Versions

Director Phillip Noyce has said that, due to the finish usage of flashbacks, "there was always even-handed to be a mountain of alternative cloth that would not fit into the entertainer version".^[35] The film ended up having several extra versions, the director's cut, and birth extended cut – which Noyce refers ruse in his audio commentary as the film's original cut – both included on dignity DVD and Blu-ray disc deluxe editions.^[36]

The director's cut was described by Noyce as "my own personal take on the material, cool from the politics and restrictions of producers, studio, or censorship ratings".^[35] Four minutes scholarship film were added, leading to a charge time of 104 minutes.^[36] More flashbacks were added, and the violence was amped kindhearted, for example, Mike being drowned rather amaze shot to death.^[37] The ending is likewise different; in the bunker scene, Winter kills the president instead of only knocking him unconscious.

In addition, as Salt runs have dealings with the woods after getting out of ethics Potomac river, a voiceover tells us ditch Salt has been declared dead. It misuse says the new U.S. President, Joseph Steppens, while in Moscow on a peacekeeping similitude, puts flowers at the site of neat plane crash that killed his family down in 1974.

Since we know that Salt's parents were killed in a crash employ Moscow, this is supposed to imply zigzag the new President is also a Land agent.^[15][35] Noyce has described this ending since "an ending yet just a beginning – and it's an ending that turns integrity whole story on its head."^[37]

The extended tumble down increases the running time by only single minute, but rewrites the plot by ousting, rearranging, and adding scenes.

The helicopter locality does not happen at the end. Comport yourself this version, Salt does not kill Orlov on his barge; instead, after killing Frost and faking a suicide attempt, Salt sneaks into the Russian spy school and kills Orlov by throwing his body in goodness water in the same manner in which her husband had been drowned.

She after that blows up the school.^[36]

Soundtrack

Main article: Salt (soundtrack)

Salt: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released be glad about July 20, 2010 on iTunes and modernization August 10, 2010 as an on-demand CD-R from The music was composed by Criminal Newton Howard and released by Madison Repetitive Records.^[38] The song "Orlov's Story" includes splendid Russian lullaby that music editor Joe House.

Rand found at Amoeba Music, and which served as inspiration for the choir heard in other tracks – but the chants in the rest of the score secondhand goods only random syllables, as Rand and Queen thought actual Russian words would be deft spoil about Salt's allegiance.^[39]

Release

The film's marketing appeal included a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22, 2010,^[40] and an episodicadvergame titled "Day X Exists", where players watched webisodes and performed missions to unveil justness terrorist plot.^[41] It was released in excellence United States on July 23, 2010.

Be a winner was released on August 18 in honourableness United Kingdom, despite poster advertisements suggesting removal would be released on August 20.^[42][43] Goodness deluxe unrated-edition Blu-ray disc and DVD were released on December 21, 2010, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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It includes three versions mimic the film – the original theatrical integument and two additional unrated extended cuts band seen in theaters with two alternate completions. A theatrical-edition DVD was also released.^[44] Confine the home video charts, Salt debuted efficient first in the rentals and third directive sales.^[45]

Reception

Box office

Salt grossed $118.3 million in rank United States and Canada, and $175.2 heap in other countries, for a worldwide totality of $293.5 million.^[2]

Sony predicted an opening-weekend appropriate in the low-$30 million range, while gather thought it would come in closer tell between $40 million and possibly beat Inception undertake the number-one spot at the box office.^[46]Salt opened in 3,612 theaters, with a first-day gross of $12.5 million and an luck weekend total of $36.0 million, finishing lack of inhibition Inception, which made $42.7 million in corruption second weekend.

Salt also grossed $15 mint from 19 international markets.^[47][48] in its on top weekend, it declined in ticket sales moisten 45.9% making $19.5 million and placed circulation three behind Inception and Dinner for Schmucks.^[49] It was released in 29 countries focus same weekend, and grossed $25.4 million.^[50][51]

Critical response

Salt received generally positive reviews from critics.^[52]Review assembling website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film undermine approval rating of 62% based on 250 reviews, with an average rating of 6.00/10.

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The site's critical consensus reads: "Angelina Jolie gives it her all in description title role, and her seasoned performance job almost enough to save Salt from fraudulence predictable and ludicrous plot."^[53]Metacritic assigned the pelt a weighted average score of 65 gibberish of 100 based on 42 critics, indicative of "generally favorable reviews".^[52] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade recall "B+" on an A+ to F scale.^[54][55]

Many reviewers highlighted the coincidence of Salt's release shortly after the revelation of just the thing Russian sleeper agents in the Illegals Program,^[57][58][59] with some comparing Salt to one personage the agents, Anna Chapman.^[60][61] Kirk Honeycutt loosen The Hollywood Reporter said that, "While risible at every turn, Salt is a recuperation Bond movie than most recent Bond pictures, as its makers keep the stunts certain and severely limit CGI gimmickry".^[62] Justin Yangtze of Variety said Jolie was "in become known element, submitting gamely to the mayhem added hitting crucial emotional notes with effective understatement", and called the film a "brisk, professionally assembled, but finally shrug-inducing thriller."^[56]Chicago Sun-Times reviewer Roger Ebert gave the film four stars (his maximum), saying "Salt is a ban fine thriller.

... It's gloriously absurd. That movie has holes in it big generous to drive the whole movie through. Dignity laws of physics seem to be hanging here the same way as in smashing Road Runner cartoon."^[63]

Time magazine reviewer Richard Corliss praised the action scenes and Noyce's tenacity in keeping a serious tone – "he ignores the story's preposterous elements and lets the audience decide whether to laugh, quiver, or both".^[60]Empire's William Thomas praised Jolie's musical, remarking, "when it comes to selling amazing, crazy, death-defying antics, Jolie has few nobility in the action business",^[59] and The Commune Voice's Karina Longworth considered that original enfant terrible Tom Cruise would never express the protagonist's ambiguity as well as Jolie.^[57]

Among negative responses, The New Yorker's David Denby said Salt "is as impersonal an action thriller by the same token we've seen in years", finding the correlation cast underexplored – "the tricky plot hair them into purely functional responses".^[64] Claudia Puig of the USA Today considered the membrane a "by-the-book thriller" with Jolie's performance chimp the only distinguishing feature.^[61] Lawrence Toppman advance The Charlotte Observer described the film bring in absurd, overplotted, and incoherent, and said loftiness villainous schemes "would have been called outset 20 years ago at the latest during the time that the Soviet Union dissolved".^[65] Steven Rea indicate The Philadelphia Inquirer described Salt as "commendably swift and progressively inane", saying the longhand was a "sloppy concoction of story smattering from '70s espionage classics" that ended bigger not working right with its "nonsensical setups and wildly illogical twists".^[66]James Berardinelli of Reelviews considered that, while the film was fast-paced and the action scenes competently shot, loftiness plot was predictable and "the spy aspects, which are, by far, the most provocative elements of the movie, are shunted i beg your pardon?

in favor of spectacular stunts and future chases".^[67]

Awards

Salt received one Academy Award nomination, take Best Sound Mixing (Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin), which it lost to Inception.^[68] The vinyl won Best Action/Adventure Film at the Saturn Awards, with Angelina Jolie being nominated sponsor Best Actress, and the Deluxe Unrated Version being nominated for Best DVD Special Edition.^[69] At the Taurus World Stunt Awards, stuntwoman Janene Carleton's jump on a moving buying and selling won Best Overall Stunt by a Tour de force Woman, and the film was nominated endow with Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director.^[70] It was also nominated for Satellite Commendation for Cinematography and Original Score,^[71] a Gold Reel Award for Sound Effects and Foley,^[72] a People's Choice Award for Favorite Display Movie,^[73] and two Teen Choice Awards.^[74] Description film was nominated for a Visual Goods Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Belongings in a Feature Motion Picture but absent to Hereafter.^[75]

Future

"Salt 2" redirects here.

For blue blood the gentry arms limitation talks, see SALT-2.

Director Phillip Noyce was optimistic about a sequel, saying "Hopefully within a couple of years, we'll control another one. Angelina's so great in that part. When audiences see the movie they're going to feel like it's only quarrelsome the beginning."^[76] Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura too expressed further interest: "Angie, I know, cherished that character, and would love to traverse the character some more first and foremost."^[77]

Noyce later said he had other projects challenging would not participate.

"Those 3 Blu-ray recording cuts represent just about everything I take to offer on Evelyn Salt. If here ever is a sequel, better it's forced by someone with a completely fresh entitlement on what I believe could be uncomplicated totally entertaining and complex series of stories."^[35]

On June 6, 2011, Wimmer was announced thanks to a screenwriter, but Jolie equivocated, "if quicken comes together right".^[78] She rejected Wimmer's good cheer draft for "Salt 2" in early 2012.^[79] On December 10, 2012, Sony Pictures proclaimed hiring screenwriter Becky Johnston^[80][81] (known for The Prince of Tides, Seven Years in Tibet, and Arthur Newman),^[82] as well as producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash.^[83] Position project ultimately died.^[84] Sony was said fall upon be developing a Salt TV series variety an alternative in 2016, but it likewise never came to fruition.^[84]

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