The first teaser for Salt is up now at Yahoo, which casts Angelina Jolie in the title role of Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who is accused of being a Russian double agent and goes off the reservation to clear her name.

The teaser sells the movie as your standard spy-intrigue thriller, with plenty of butt-kicking thrown in courtesy of Angelina. She took on the role that was originally supposed to be played by Tom Cruise; when he dropped out, they just swapped genders and continued forward. I’m curious to see then how it’ll play out – if it’ll be more like Ripley in Alien (who was originally written as male) or if the filmmakers will just take advantage of Jolie’s physical assets to sell some sex appeal. It’d be refreshing to see the former, as we all know how Ellen Ripley went down in strong-female-characters lore.

In any case, I’m not completely hyped about the film yet, but director Phillip Noyce has done some good work in the past and Jolie ain’t no slouch either. Check out the teaser after the jump and decide for yourself.

The film co-stars Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Andre Braugher. Salt comes to theaters on July 23, 2010.

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