Susan Sarandon Paid To Protest On Screen

By Josh Tyler: 2006-09-04 00:00:00

Last week we brought you the news that Charlize Theron was signing up for the new protestor movie Battle in Seattle, and now the rest of the cast is shaping up.

Production Weekly reports that Susan Sarandon and flaming hot Fantastic Four star Chris Evans are in negotiations to stop bathing and join the anti-war rallying cast.

The film will be shot in documentary style to tell the story of the 40 – 60,000 protestors who descended on Seattle and paralyzed the city to bring the World Trade Organization's meetings to a halt in November 1999. That was back when protestors didn't have better things to do, you know like protesting the war in Iraq.

Theron will play an objective observer named Lou who loses her child in the sea jobless protestors. Real life protestor and activist Susan Sarandon will be a sympathetic newscaster. Evans' role remains unknown, but he seems a natural fit as some sort of dirty hippy.

Sure they ran the WTO out of town, but what did these protestors really accomplish? I'm sure the Stuart Townsend written and directed movie will try to find something to dangle as an accomplishment, but the world has changed a lot since 1999. Big name cast or not, I'm not sure I really care. Now tell the story from the poor, put-upon Seattle citizens whose lives were screwed up by a bunch of noisy, listless, rabble-rousing vagrants and maybe you've got something. Theron's part as an outside observer could end up filling exactly that role.

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sandy
March 18, 2007 at 23:02

joey doesnt know what the hell he's talking about. maybe he should learn some facts before he rambles on and on and makes himself sound like an idiot. tell me joey, what do those people go "threw"? you start out sounding like you are arguing for the war in iraq and you end sounding like you are sympathizing with iraqis....ummm what? just because someone opposes the war in iraq doesnt make them anti-american. just because your president is all for war and killing people for bullshit reasons doesnt mean that all americans are either. did you know that people have different opinions and that simply having the title of "president" doesnt make you always right? did you know that the president's views are not nececissarily the same as all american's views? and i'm pretty sure susan sarandon would disagree with people who were spitting on anyone. she is protesting a war which is violating peoples rights, why would she want people to be spat on? the actions of one person do not necesscarily equal the views of another. and how does protesting a war bring down america? because war is good for the economy? and you dont care how many innocent people are killed? as long as america is on top right? thought so. have a nice day loser.

if protesting a war makes you anti-american, then i dont want to know what america is about.

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Joey
January 29, 2007 at 23:28

Susan Sarandon is anti-american just like Han-oy Jane. Did these people die in 911 for nothing. We were attacked and her protest this weekend where protesters spit on Iraq military veterans is discusting. Someone should spit on her. I will never watch another Susan Sarandon film, Tim Robins and that other idot Sean Penn. These people are anti-american and are using thier star power to bring down america. She should go live over there and see what these people go threw. Let her live in oppression without her millions of dollars. She makes me sick.

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