Kirsten Dunst is to play Marla Ruzicka in a film about the 28-year-old American relief worker who was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber, according to Variety.
Ruzicka was a dynamo in her quest to get reparations for the scores of civilian casualties after the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, compiling lists of war victims and seeking compensation and medical treatment from the U.S. government. The org she founded, the Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict, raised $28 million to assist casualties of war in those countries.
Ruzicka and her driver were killed in April when a suicide bomber crashed into a security convoy they were trailing.
Relief worker Marla Rizicka, right, with an Iraqi family aided by her organization, was killed the day after this photo was taken.