Angelina Jolie to write and direct 'Without Blood' starring Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir

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Angelina Jolie is headed back to the director's chair.

The 47-year-old Oscar winner Angelina Jolie will direct and write her new film Without Blood, marking her first big-screen directing project since 2017's First They Killed My Father.

Salma Hayek (whom Jolie recently appeared with in Eternals) and Demián Bichir are to star in Jolie’s upcoming project.

"I'm honored to be here in Italy to bring this very special material to film, and to have been entrusted by Alessandro Baricco with the adaptation of his book — with its unique poetry and emotion and way of looking at war, and the questions it poses about what we search for after trauma or loss or injustice," Jolie said, per Variety.