Actress, director, humanitarian, wife, and greatest mom in history Angelina Jolie has, in recent months, begun hinting that she’s growing weary of her first title and increasingly interested in the second one. At a press conference for Maleficent, she said she wants to reduce her acting roles and focus more on directing and humanitarian efforts. She’s strongly hinted that a possible remake of Cleopatra could be her farewell to onscreen work, and even joked that she and husband Brad Pitt are “racing to see” who will retire first. (How could they possibly afford to retire? They have six hundred children to feed.)

Jolie’s previous effort as a director, In The Land Of Blood And Honey, failed to make much of an impact, but her next film, this fall’s Unbroken, is already receiving serious Oscar buzz for its story of a World War II P.O.W.’s struggle to survive in a Japanese prison camp. And she’s already shooting its follow-up; a romantic drama with Pitt called By The Sea. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Jolie’s gotten a jump on her next directing assignment after that, a biopic of paleo-archaeologist Richard Leakey. More on the plot from THR:

“The script by Eric Roth is described as a ‘sweeping epic’ which tells the story of African-born Leakey, a fossil hunter who helped find bones of early man but later turned his attention to combating elephant and rhino poaching.”

Oh man, Jolie’s unlocked the formula for Oscar success: Elephant and rhino poaching. If there’s one thing guaranteed to net more awards than an uplifting true-life story of a man overcoming incredible odds amidst the horror of war it’s elephant and rhino poaching. How will PricewaterhouseCoopers read Academy voters’ ballots when they’re so stained with tears?

THR says Jolie will head to Africa with Roger Deakins, the acclaimed cinematographer who also shot Unbroken, and the film will be produced by David Ellison and Dana Goldberg of Skydance Productions. Here’s Jolie’s statement on Roth’s script, and the project as a whole:

“I’ve felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life, and was taken with Eric’s beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man’s footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him.”

With all these directorial gigs on her plate, will Jolie even have time to make a farewell performance? Something tells me that if it ever happens, this is going to be one of those Steven Soderbergh-style retirements where the person “quits” and two weeks later is making another project.