Braga, Rourke and Cassel Set for 11 Minutes

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53413

Source: Variety
March 3, 2009


Alice Braga, Mickey Rourke and Vincent Cassel are set to star in 11 Minutes, an adaptation of the steamy Paulo Coehlo novel that will be directed by Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now), says Variety.

Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari is producing, with Craig J. Flores and George Waud as executive producers. Shooting begins June 1 in Brazil and Geneva.

Braga plays a naive girl who is betrayed by her first lover and swears off romance. She becomes a high-priced call girl who works at an upscale gentlemen's club in Geneva. Cassel plays a music executive who gets her hooked on S&M. Rourke plays the club owner.

Italian heartthrob Riccardo Scamarcio is in talks to round out the cast.

Abu-Assad has rewritten a script by Marcos Bernstein.

This sounds the least interesting of the projects Rourke has been linked to since the comeback IMO.