Movie star Angelina Jolie and bestselling author Patricia Cornwall are teaming up for a new crime film expected to be another blockbuster.

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Fox 2000 is acquiring the film rights to Cornwall’s famed protagonist, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a fictional medical examiner who appears in the scribe’s sixteen books. The studio is developing the main role as an acting vehicle for the "Changeling" star.

As per Variety, the new film, which is being planned to be developed into a franchise, won’t be tied specifically to any of the 16 Scarpetta novels. The practice is much like Universal Pictures’ Jason Bourne series. All the three "Bourne" films were not locked with the Robert Ludlum’s novels.

Mark Gordon will produce with Geyer Kosinski of Media Talent Group. Bryan Zuriff will executive produce.

Jolie is currently shooting the action thriller "Salt" for Columbia Pictures. It will be released in 2010.