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though - entitled War, Inc., it's about war profiteering in the Middle East. ("What I want to question," he says at one point, "is, how are [things like Blackwater] even fundamentally legal?") Made mostly independently, it'll be release in early 2008. "To get that movie made in the climate, we had to go on a totally independent, shoestring budget," he says. "It's got Marisa [Tomei], and Dan Akroyd, and Joanie [Cusack], and Sir Ben Kingsley, and Hilary Duff. So if you've got a movie with Sir Ben Kingsley and Hilary Duff that's about war profiteering, to me, that's a win. See, but I think that's why the studios think I'm insane."

Even in that case, however, his focus is more on the characters than the politics. As in Grosse Pointe Blank, he plays a hitman. "I'm interested in mercenaries and the concept of that. And people's perception of who they are and what they actually do," he says. "In my own weird, dumb way, I think everybody feels like this, they do stuff to get ahead that isn't what they purely believe. I just think it's interesting - what's your level of compromise? It takes it to an absurd degree, but it's, what's the line you won't cross? I just think it's interesting stuff."

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