Angelina Jolie left Brad Pitt and the kids in Los Angeles and has gone to Pakistan on another humanitarian mission. RadarOnline.com has pictures of the actress as she was changing planed in London.
In her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), Jolie has recorded a video appeal for the residents of that flooded nation, calling it an “economic and social catastrophe.”
Twenty million Pakistanis are living under “the threat of disease,” she says, in asking everyone to help
Angelina Jolie was spotted departing her New Orleans home on her way to a private airport earlier today as Brad Pitt was looking extremely handsome filming a Meet the Press interview with Brian Williams. Her last philanthropic trip was solo when she trekked to Bosnia, but this time they worked together. On the fifth anniversary of the Katrina disaster Brad’s drawing attention to his Make It Right housing project and helping his celebrity friends document the progress being made. His and Angelina’s kids skipped this short visit with Mom and Dad, though Vivienne and Knox go to come along to travel with Angelina to Budapest last weekend.
Angelina Jolie’s schedule is rapidly filling up. Earlier this week, it was revealed that she’ll be writing and directing her first feature, a love story set during the Bosnian War, which she’ll also produce with Graham King. Now, she may have a new starring role coming up as well, for a movie that King will also produce.
The producer’s GK Films is developing a feature adaptation of the 2009 U.K. miniseries “Unforgiven” for Jolie to star in, Deadline reports. A director hasn’t been set yet, but “The Usual Suspects” writer Christopher McQuarrie is taking care of the script.
“Unforgiven,” not to be confused with the Oscar-winning 1992 Western starring Clint Eastwood, follows a woman who is newly released from jail after serving a 15-year sentence for the murder of two police officers. The killing happened when attempts were made to evict her and her family from their home. Now free, all the ex-con wants is to live in peace, a desire not easily fulfilled thanks to a revenge plot staged by one of her victims’ two sons.
The original U.K. version aired as a three-part miniseries early last year. Suranne Jones starred as Ruth Slater, the role that Jolie is up for. Jones has done a fair bit of U.K. television, and is probably best known for her role as Karen McDonald on the soap opera “Coronation Street.”
Jolie is having a strong year at the movies. Earlier this summer, she starred in the box-office hit “Salt,” a Russian-spy thriller that has so far grossed more than $200 million worldwide. In December she stars opposite Johnny Depp in “The Tourist,” a King-produced thriller directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck that was recently moved up from its previously planned 2011 release.
Angelina Jolie in an interview about great Jane Goodall.
Joint meeting, Jane’s Journey – the journey of life of Jane Goodall
July 2010 Documentary
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she’s been spending 300 days a year scouring the globe on her mission to spread hope for future generations. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, has been honoured with countless awards, was appointed “Dame of the British Empire” and was even admitted to the “Légion d’Honneur”, the highest decoration of France.
In “Jane’s Journey”, we accompany her on her travels across several continents, with unprecedented access to her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we embark to ‘Gombe National Park’ on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. This is where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and where to this day she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her the internationally recognized activist so loved and deeply respected.
“Jane’s Journey” is an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon — an exceptional woman, possibly the most fascinating woman of our time, whose scientific breakthroughs are considered to be among the most important of the past 100 years.
The visual scope of “Jane’s Journey” spans a fascinating arc from the beaches of Bournemouth to the flatlands of Nebraska, and from the rainforests of Gombe to the melting glaciers of Greenland, offering spectacular footage of Jane’s touching encounters with animals both wild and domestic as well as with humans, from Hollywood celebrities to traumatized children in African refugee camps. Whoever encounters Jane Goodall irrevocably falls under her spell. As The Boston Globe once put it: “To be with Jane Goodall is like walking with Mahatma Gandhi.”
To be delivered in 2010, the year of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Goodall’s ongoing chimpanzee research project in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
