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Jan 4th, 2006, 11:32 AM
Joanne Laucius, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's first big-screen role will be in a film expose of the fast-food industry.
Ms. Lavigne will play a restaurant clerk in Fast Food Nation, based on the 2001 bestseller of the same name by journalist Richard Schlosser.
Although the book is non-fiction, the film's writers -- Mr. Schlosser and Richard Linklater, whose credits include Dazed and Confused and School of Rock -- have added characters to tell the story of the inner workings of the industry.
"It's going to be a fictionalized account of the characters," said Maria Manero, a spokeswoman for Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Fast Food Nation, which started as a series of Rolling Stone articles, was subtitled "The dark side of the All-American meal."
The book explored a range of charges levelled against the fast food industry, including its impact on real estate, the unrestrained power of corporations, the homogeneity of food and the exploitation of migrant workers in meat packing plants.
The book was called a "gross-out expo" in Slate and was praised by the New York Times as "an avalache of facts and observations."
Mr. Linklater, who met Mr. Schlosser four years ago in Austin, Texas, told the Hollywood Reporter that the movie would not be a documentary like Morgan Spurlock's hit Super Size Me, which filmed Mr. Spurlock's 30-day diet of fast food and explored the connection between fast food and obesity.
Instead, it will be "a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures," Mr. Linklater told the Hollywood Reporter. "I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling."
The cast in the film includes includes Kris Kristofferson, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Greg Kinnear, Wilmer Valderrama of That 70's Show and Catalina Sandino Moreno, who was nominated for an Oscar last year for Maria Full of Grace.
Principal filming -- in Mexico, Texas and Colorado -- has already concluded said Ms. Manero. The film is expected to be released this year.
© The Ottawa Citizen 2006
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ec83604d-1b69-4eb8-98ef-970b0954fd95&k=50677
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Published: Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's first big-screen role will be in a film expose of the fast-food industry.
Ms. Lavigne will play a restaurant clerk in Fast Food Nation, based on the 2001 bestseller of the same name by journalist Richard Schlosser.
Although the book is non-fiction, the film's writers -- Mr. Schlosser and Richard Linklater, whose credits include Dazed and Confused and School of Rock -- have added characters to tell the story of the inner workings of the industry.
"It's going to be a fictionalized account of the characters," said Maria Manero, a spokeswoman for Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Fast Food Nation, which started as a series of Rolling Stone articles, was subtitled "The dark side of the All-American meal."
The book explored a range of charges levelled against the fast food industry, including its impact on real estate, the unrestrained power of corporations, the homogeneity of food and the exploitation of migrant workers in meat packing plants.
The book was called a "gross-out expo" in Slate and was praised by the New York Times as "an avalache of facts and observations."
Mr. Linklater, who met Mr. Schlosser four years ago in Austin, Texas, told the Hollywood Reporter that the movie would not be a documentary like Morgan Spurlock's hit Super Size Me, which filmed Mr. Spurlock's 30-day diet of fast food and explored the connection between fast food and obesity.
Instead, it will be "a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures," Mr. Linklater told the Hollywood Reporter. "I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling."
The cast in the film includes includes Kris Kristofferson, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Greg Kinnear, Wilmer Valderrama of That 70's Show and Catalina Sandino Moreno, who was nominated for an Oscar last year for Maria Full of Grace.
Principal filming -- in Mexico, Texas and Colorado -- has already concluded said Ms. Manero. The film is expected to be released this year.
© The Ottawa Citizen 2006
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ec83604d-1b69-4eb8-98ef-970b0954fd95&k=50677
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