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.

Fox, who recently followed her agents from Gersh, has landed a spate of projects of late, signing on for the Warners Western Jonah Hex and the Fox Atomic underwater actioner Fathom.

But Plays would mark a further evolution in her career; the actress, who burst onto the scene as the female lead in Transformers two years ago and appears in the sequel this summer (she’ll also appear, of course, in Diablo Cody’s upcoming supernatural tale Jennifer’s Body), had not previously signed on for a drama.

Source: THR / RiskyBusinessBlog.com