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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - Kirsten Dunst will star in a new movie about the Iraq war as real-life U.S. aid worker Marla Ruzicka, who was killed April in a suicide-bomb attack in Baghdad.
The movie will be made for Paramount Pictures and tells the story of Ruzicka, 28, who ran a non-governmental organization that lobbied for financial compensation for civilian casualties of war, reports Daily Variety.
Through her organization, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, Ruzicka worked in Iraq and Afghanistan trying to document the exact number of civilians killed or injured by U.S. forces.
She helped victims receive $10 million in compensation from the U.S. government.
Six months ago, she and her translator Faiz Al Salaam were killed by a suicide bomber targeting a nearby convoy of foreign contractors' vehicles.
Her organization has since raised $28 million.
Paramount acquired the rights to Ruzicka?s life story last year, as well as the rights to a book by Jennifer Abrahamson, who had planned to write it with the late aid worker.
Marc Platt will produce the movie with MTV Films.
Dunst, 23, has just finished filming the title role in director Sofia Coppola?s new movie ?Marie Antoinette,? and is set to reprise her role as Mary Jane Watson in ?Spider-Man 3.? She can be seen in theatres now alongside Orlando Bloom in ?Elizabethtown.?
The movie about Ruzicka is just one in a string of upcoming Hollywood movies and television dramas depicting the nearly three-year-old war in Iraq.
Movies coming to the big screen include the drama "No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah," which stars Harrison Ford, and "Jarhead," starring Jamie Foxx and Jake Gyllenhaal, which will open on Nov. 11.
