The attorney for actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright is negotiating with the city prosecutor in an effort to resolve the case in which the actors were charged with resisting police during a bar altercation earlier this year.

The two actors, along with five film crew members, today were scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 6 in Shreveport City Court.

Shreveport lawyer Ron Miciotto, who enrolled today to represent them, said he and the city prosecutor have begun preliminary discussions of a resolution of the case without trial.

"Hopefully we'll work out something where at the conclusion of the case none of them will have criminal records," Miciotto said outside City Court.

The Hollywood seven were arrested last July at StrayCat on Travis Street downtown after police were called to deal with a rowdy customer. When it was over, they had been arrested, a taser had been used on Wright and the actors were hit with pepper spray. Police said the actors wouldn't quit holding onto each other.

Brolin has said there was no fight and he and Wright did not resist officers.

Brolin and Wright had just wrapped up local work on the Oliver Stone movie "W" when they were arrested. They and members of their party face misdemeanor charges of interfering with officers.

A dozen police officers, a police dog and a crowd of onlookers wound up at the bar. A witness to the melee said a cell phone recorded part of what happened and shows a racial slur directed by an officer at Wright, who is black. Mayor Cedric Glover and Police Chief Henry Whitehorn, who have reviewed video- and audio-records made by cameras in police cars and microphones worn by officers, adamantly denied it, saying the officers' conduct was "beyond reproach."