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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Rodriguez, Pena, Moynahan taking the battle to L.A.!


Here's to hoping it's actually this hardcore

According to Variety, Michelle Rodriguez will further her action-packed career even more; she, along with Michael Pena and Bridget Moynahan have been cast alongside Aaron Eckhart in the upcoming sci-fi actioner Battle: Los Angeles (we all know it should've been called 'The Battle of Los Angeles' and had the respective RATM album as the soundtrack, but I digress).

Though lead roles have been hard to come by, Rodriguez has molded herself into a modern action goddess, starring in everything from Girlfight, The Fast and the Furious series, Resident Evil, S.W.A.T., video games such as Halo 2, Driver 3, Bloodrayne, and, most notably, the upcoming James Cameron sci-fi opus Avatar (not to mention the upcoming Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse opus Machete). I myself have been a big fan and things just seem to be getting better for her.

Battle: Los Angeles could be pretty badass if it's anything like the similarly-titled Rage Against the Machine album, at least in tone. There's been a lot of post-apocalyptic (apoCRAPtic?) sci-fi actioners over the last few years, so it's got to find some way to separate itself from the rest of the pack. A cast headlined by Eckhart and Rodriguez--not to mention Michael Pena--is a good start. We'll see how it progresses.

Source: Variety

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