Megan Joins Passion Plays

Posted on May 05, 2009

Can Megan Fox save Mickey Rourke?

The Transformers actress is attached to play an angel opposite Rourke in Passion Plays, an indie drama that Mitch Glazer is writing and directing.

Here’s the skinny on the project: Rourke will play a down-on-his-heels trumpet player, and Fox will play an angel in 1950s Los Angeles, with Rourke finding redemption in Fox after he attempts to save her from a gangster. Those familiar with the project describe it as a dramatic but heartwarming tale.

Fox’s character is described, in part, as as a slender beauty with wings who is part of a carnival.

Glazer, if you’re not familiar, is the screenwriter behind the Al Pacino CIA tale The Recruit and the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged who will be making his directorial debut with Plays; like Rourke and Fox, he’s repped by ICM. Laura Bickford, producer of ambitious dramas like Traffic and Che, is producing.

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Category: Passion Plays, Role Rumors

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