Here’s a first look clip of Mitch Glazer’s upcoming fantastical-tinged ’50s-set drama “Passion Play” starring Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox and Bill Murray.
The film centers on a down-and-out trumpet player (Rourke) who seeks redemption through an angel (a winged circus freak played by Fox) in Los Angeles. Rourke has talked Fox up a fair bit during production, even casting aside all his previous female co-stars calling Fox “probably the best young actress I’ve ever worked with” — but he’s always been one to shoot his mouth off, no?
Also co-starring are the likes of Rhys Ifans, Kelly Lynch, Rory Cochrane, and Bud Cort but it’s pretty hard to gauge where the film stands, we think. While it does feature riches of talent in Rourke and Murray, the two are actually friends of Glazer from their heyday in the ’80s and may very well have come on board more out of friendship than any quality material. At the very least, it does look like Glazer has some nice looking photography happening in this clip of Rourke participating in some sort of $2 peep scheme to look at a winged Fox — the actress that is.
“Passion Play” premieres at TIFF where it hopes to find a distributor. With a cast like that, it would have to be pretty mediocre to not find some kind of buyer. [ET]