"The Daily Freeman reports that locally filmed scenes for director Steven Spielberg's /www.dreamworksfansite.com/waroftheworlds"">War of the Worlds, , starring Tom Cruise, will need a more ethnically diverse group of extras than those who turned out for a casting call on November 13.

We want to make it so they don't just kill white people, they kill everybody, casting director Billy Dowd said during a visit to Athens, New Jersey this week to sort through some 2,000 applications and photographs.

The scene being shot in the Greene County village will depict thousands of people being killed while running to catch a ferry during a Martian invasion. The local filming is scheduled for December 6-9.

We need more Asian, black and Hispanic extras, he said. I've called up to Albany to the different organizations - the Chinese community center, and the Japanese cultural association and the international center. We want to make it look like a nice diverse group.

Dowd is also accepting mailed-in submissions from people who want to be extras in the movie. Photographs and phone numbers should be sent to ""War of the Worlds"" casting, 110 Leroy St., New York, N.Y. 10014.

Source: /www.comingsoon.net/"">Comingsoon.net."