'Spider-Man' star Dunst plays slain aid worker (Ruzicka)in Iraq war movie

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - "Spider-Man" star Kirsten Dunst is to play real-life US aid worker Marla Ruzicka, who was killed in a suicide-bomb attack in Baghdad in April, in a new Hollywood movie about the war in Iraq.

The movie, to be made for Paramount Pictures, will tell the remarkable story of Ruzicka, 28, who ran a non-governmental organisation that lobbied for financial compensation for civilian casualties of war, Daily Variety said.

The studio last year sealed a deal to acquire the rights to the life story of Ruzicka as well as to a book being written by Jennifer Abrahamson, who had planned to work on the book with the late aid worker.

Ruzicka, through her organisation Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, worked extensively in Iraq and in Afghanistan to document the exact number of civilians killed or injured by US forces.

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1. This is going to be awesome.

I am so happy that a film and abook are coming out about Marla... a women of courage if there ever was one.

She started young as well... I still get emotional about her.