Battle in Seattle

ComingSoon.net sat down with Stuart Townsend to talk about how an actor from Ireland ended up directing one of the more impressive civil rights related non-doc films of the year. "Battle in Seattle" has just released nationwide on September 19th. The film stars Charlize Theron, Michelle Rodriguez, Channing Tatum, Andre Benjamin, Martin Henderson, and Woody Harleson. Townsend also discusses his idea for the movie and the stings he pulled for his diverse and talented cast.

"...we were a day from shutting down. We were ten weeks into pre production with no cast, and we waited on one actress for seven weeks and she then came back and said "no," and it pretty much devastated us and we didn't know what to do. Our producers said, "Look I'll give you a week and if we don't have anyone we'll have to shut down," and it came right up to the last day when Woody actually said yes..."

Read the full interview here.