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Aside from films lead by Angelina Jolie , action pictures starring women are increasingly rare. What’s also few and far between is male stars, known for their action lead roles, who are willing to have their asses handed to them on screen by a member of the opposite sex. When Steven Soderbergh started casting up his latest, the spy action thriller, “ Haywire ,” these are part of the problems he encountered. Well known action stars—we won’t name names—who didn’t want their asses kicked by a woman shied away from the project.

Their loss were the gain of others, young actors like Channing Tatum and Micheal Fassbender who jumped at the chance to work with the Academy Award-winning director of “ Traffic ,” “ Erin Brockovich ” and the ‘ Ocean’s ’ films franchise among others. However, there was still a little trepidation, but it was pitched in the opposite direction. “I called Michael up when we were discussing the film,” Soderbergh recalled in an exclusive interview that took place after “Haywire” footage debuted at Comic-Con 2011 last week. “And I said, ‘Are you comfortable with the idea of punching a girl in the face? Cause that’s what you’re going to have to do here.’ And he had to stop and think about it for a second.”

After a short debate, Fassbender, along with Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano and Bill Paxton all signed on to star opposite the lead, Gina Carano , a non-acting Mixed Martial Arts fighter that leads this picture as Mallory Kane, a black ops super soldier who seeks payback after she is set up and betrayed during a mission.  “Ultimately all the guys were really good sports,” the director said. “They were really supportive and they were all rooting for Gina.”

Women could be rooting for the fighter turned actress as well. The filmmaker said that the film rated incredibly well during testing with women and it’s something he hopes to exploit in the marketing closer to the film’s release on January 20, 2012 . “The film tested extremely well with women and the comments they left were super interesting,” he said, suggesting that a group of females could really enjoy a night on the town watching some of Hollywood’s sexiest hunks take a severe beating. “I’m not sure what’s to be done there exactly [with the marketing], but who knows, it could be like a girls night out. It’s not something we see very often on the screen.

!9#: Erin Brockovich (2000) - Theatrical Trailer - © Columbia ...

Film: Erin Brockovich. Starring: Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich, Albert Finney as Edward L. Masry and Aaron Eckhart as George. Directed by: Steven Soderbergh. Story & Screenplay written by: Susannah Grant. Distributed by: © Columbia Pictures & Universal Pictures. Theatrical Release Date: March 17, 2000 (USA) Niceties by: www.youtube.com Synopsis! "Erin Brockovich" is a 2000 drama film which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the American West Coast energy giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company known as PG&E. The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and featured actress Julia Roberts in the lead role for which she subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actress. It is based on a true story and the real Erin Brockovich has a cameo appearance as a waitress named Julia. The film was produced and distributed in North America by Universal Pictures, and was distributed overseas by Columbia Pictures. Plot! Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) is an unemployed single mother of three children who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in, asks her lawyer, Edward L. Masry (Albert Finney), if he can find her a job in compensation for the loss. Ed gives her work as a file clerk in his office, and she runs across some files on a pro bono case involving real-estate and medical records against PG&E. Erin begins digging into the particulars of the case, convinced that the facts simply do not add up, and persuades Ed ...