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Updates on: Class Action
Class
Action Updated:
Tuesday
1st February 2005: Class Action:
Woody Harrelson, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, and Michelle Monaghan
have joined the previously announced Charlize Theron, Frances
McDormand, Sissy Spacek, and Jeremy Renner in Warner Bros.'
upcoming drama "Untitled Niki Caro Project" (aka "Class
Action"). The film is a fictionalized account of the first
major successful sexual harassment case in the United States.
Spacek and Jenkins play the parents of Josie Aimes (Theron),
the single mom who files the lawsuit. Harrelson plays Josie's
lawyer, Bean plays the boyfriend of Josie's best friend Glory
(McDormand), Renner is a mineworker and former classmate of
Josie's, and Monaghan is Josie's fellow mineworker. Production
starts mid-February in New Mexico and Minnesota.
Wednesday
22nd September 2004: Class Action update:
Looks like Jeremy Renner is joining Charlize Theron for Class
Action. Director Niko Caro is planning to shoot in the new year
after Charlize is through with Aeon Flux.
Wednesday
14th July
2004: Class Action Update:
Frances McDormand and Charlize Theron are to star in Class Action
for Warner Bros. McDormand would play the role of Glory, a tough
but tender iron miner who befriends and mentors Theron's character,
Josie, a harassed mine worker who becomes the key plaintiff
in the case. Niki Caro directs from a Michael Seitzman script.
Friday
12th March 2004: Class Action Update:
Director Niki Caro looks to have signed up Charlize Theron to
star in Class Action. The movie is being produced by Warner
Bros. and written by Michael Seitzman. The movie will follow
Therize as Josie Aimes, a young mother who flees an abusive
husband during the early '70s, heads home to her Minnesota hometown
and becomes one of the first women to get jobs in the iron mine
that employs most residents, including her father. She and her
female co-workers are verbally and physically harassed by their
male co-workers. The mine owners turn a deaf ear to their complaints
and the women are terrified to lose their jobs. Though she risks
being ostracized by her family, Aimes become a Norma Rae-like
figure in mobilizing defiance through legal action.
Wednesday
14th January 2004: Class Action Update:
Niki Carlo will direct Class Action a fictionalised version
of the true story book centered on Lori Jenson, who took a job
at a Minnesota iron mine in 1975. She and other female miners
endured harassment from male co-workers, ranging from verbal
taunts to pornographic graffiti and worse. Jenson eventually
filed suit in 1984 and won a landmark legal decision. The book
by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy was about the case that forced
corporations to take seriously sexual harassment in the workplace.
Michael Seitzman will write the sceenplay and Warner Bros. will
produce.
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