Battle adds some protesters!
By Ronnie Adams on October 31, 2006
Production Weekly is reporting that Michelle Rodriguez, Jennifer Carpenter, Channing Tatum and Tzi Ma have been added to the cast of the docu-drama Battle in Seattle. This adds some more shine to the already brilliant cast of Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Andre Benjamin and Martin Henderson. Battle also sees Threron's boyfriend Stuart Townsend making his directorial debut.
The documentary-style film will focus on a dozen characters swept up in the protests, which brought the World Trade Organization’s meeting to a halt. Between 40,000 and 60,000 people protested against the WTO’s Third Ministerial on November 30, 1999. They converged on Seattle to express their concerns about the power of corporations, globalization, and the gap between fantasies of the good life and the real lives of working people everywhere. Theron is expected to play Lou, a pregnant bystander who loses her child in the melee of protests and regards events with some objectivity.
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