Columbia Pictures executive Amy Pascal suggested Angelina Jolie to Noyce, who had often spoken to Jolie in the past about a desire to create a female spy franchise. Jolie was sent the script in September of that year and liked it. Wimmer, Noyce, and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura went to visit Jolie at her home in France to discuss a possible script and character change. Writer Brian Helgeland helped with the character development and dialogue of the script based on the notes that came out of those discussions with Jolie and to accompany the gender change, the title character's name was changed to "Evelyn Salt". When asked if the script written for Cruise was the same for Jolie, he said "I think that it's just been a continual process, obviously accelerating by changing the central character. But the ideas the locomotive of ideas that drive the movie are the same. An undercover CIA operative is accused of being a Russian mole, and has to go on the run to defend themselves. That's been the same since day one. The tone of the film has changed in this evolution. In the same way, I guess, as you know action thrillers have changed along the lines of the Bond films and the Bourne films".