Source: Variety

Angelina Jolie has signed on to join Matt Damon in The Good Shepherd, the Robert De Niro-directed drama expected to begin production in March, reports Variety.

The film is an Eric Roth-scripted history of the CIA as seen through the eyes of a career agent whose marriage is destroyed by the stress and difficulties of the job. Jolie has been tapped to play the wife.

Tribeca partners De Niro and Jane Rosenthal are producing, with Francis Ford Coppola, Rick Schwartz and Chris Brigham exec producing.

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