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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Megan Fox is making a run for the border.

Screen Gems says the actress will star as the lead in the border thriller The Crossing.

Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi penned the pic, in which a couple returning from a Mexican vacation is carjacked and the husband kidnapped. The wife (Fox) must smuggle heroin across the border in order to spring him.

Directors are meeting on the project, and production could begin as soon as July. Jeff Okin will produce with Pink Slip Pictures’ Karen Firestone and Max Wong. Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper and senior vp production Nick Phillips are overseeing for the studio.

Culpepper noted that Fox is ideal for the role of a woman who must be both victim and hero. The part “requires a vulnerability to make you care about her but a kind of strength to make you believe she can pull off the things she needs to,” he said. “And Megan has both a vulnerability about her and an unbelievable strength.”

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Megan Fox is ditching the robots and taking her career to Western and underwater frontiers.

Fox is in final negotiations to star opposite Josh Brolin and John Malkovich in Jonah Hex, Warner Bros.’ action Western based on the DC Comics character. She also is attached to star and develop Fathom, Fox Atomic’s comic book-based underwater adventure.

In Hex, being directed by Jimmy Hayward, Fox will play Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and love interest of Hex (Brolin), a scarred bounty hunter tracking a voodoo practitioner (Malkovich) who wants to raise an army of undead to liberate the South.

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