Per the Hollywood Reporter, the 1950s Los Angeles-set tale finds Fox's character, described as a slender beauty with wings who is part of a carnival, helping a down-in-the-skids trumpeter (Rourke) obtain redemption.
Aside from this summer's upcoming blockbuster sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the 22-year-old sex symbol is headlining the Diablo Cody horror flick Jennifer's Body and recently took a part in Warner's comic-book western, Jonah Hex, opposite Josh Brolin.
Rourke next plays a villain in Iron Man 2.
Meanwhile, in the day's other casting coups, Cillian Murphy, all of whom are in talks to come aboard the Dark Knight director's top secret sci-fi project, Inception. No word on the plot, but DiCaprio is reportedly playing a corporate man, Cotillard his wife and Page a young college graduate student who becomes his sidekick. No word on Murphy's part, but Nolan previously cast him as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins.
• Big Laura Linney is also aboard as a counselor
• Gina Gershon is getting Everything She Ever Wanted, a four-hour miniseries for Lifetime about a woman climbing the social ranks of Atlanta's old moneyed elite. The telefilm costars Victor Garber as her bossy father-in-law and Ryan McPartlin (Chuck).
• Ben Stiller about a CIA spy and his fellow operatives on assignment in a South American country with the mission of installing a new dictator.
• And finally, funnyman Chris Elliott has been cast in CBS' comedy pilot The Fish Tank, following the everyday exploits of a teenager named Fish (Drake Bell). Elliot will play the father of Fish's best bud.
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