Rourke, Braga, Cassel join '11 Minutes'

Mickey Rourke, Alice Braga and Vincent Cassel are ready to star in Hany Abu-Assad's "11 Minutes," the big-screen adaptation of Paulo Coehlo's novel.

According to Variety, Braga is on board to play a girl who becomes an expensive call girl after she's betrayed by her first lover and loses faith in romance.

Cassel plays a music producer who introduces her to the world of S&M, while Rourke is set to play the owner of the gentlemen's clup she's working at.

Hany Abu-Assad is known for directing the utterly intriguing terrorist tale "Paradise Now."

Rourke, of course, is currently onscreen in "The Wrestler." He's got "The Informers," "The Expendables" and "13" coming up soon.

French actor Cassel was seen in "Eastern Promises" and "Ocean's Thirteen." As for Braga, she appeared in "Blindness" and will soon be seen in "Repossession Mambo."