Here's your dose of daily film news for March 11, 2009:

• Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director of "28 Weeks Later" and "Intacto," is set to develop a remake of Roger Corman's 1963 film "X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes." The original followed a scientist who's experimenting with a unique X-ray vision technology. (Variety)

• Mickey Rourke is attached to star in Mitch Glazer's upcoming indie drama "Passion Plays." Plot details are strictly kept under wraps. Glazer also wrote the screenplays for "The Recruit" and "Great Expectations." Rourke recently starred in "The Wrestler." (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Speaking of Rourke, he's officially joined "Iron Man 2." Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that "... Rourke has signed on for the role of the Russian villain in the sequel after his agent David Unger got the quote up to a "significant" level despite this punishing economic climate where the studios are taking advantage of talent."

• Yesterday we learned Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle have officially joined the cast of Ridley Scott's upcoming "Robin Hood," and today Universal announced the film will be released May 14, 2010. Russell Crowe plays Hood, and Cate Blanchett is on board as Maid Marian.

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."

Here's your dose of daily film news for Feb. 6, 2009:

• Mickey Rourke is set to star in Walter Hill's thriller "St. Vincent," about a hit man who returns to the Big Apple to finish a failed attempt to murder an informant. Cameron Young wrote the screenplay. Hill also directed the excellent television western "Broken Trail." (Variety)

• Ralph Fiennes will make his debut as director with "Coriolanus," the big-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Roman tragedy. According to Variety, Fiennes will also play the "contemptuous soldier spurred on by his ambitious mother to run for the Roman Senate, which ultimately leads to his downfall."

• Camilla Belle, Peter O'Toole, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Al Pacino and Jessica Lange are set to star in Alejandro Agresti's "Mary, Mother of Christ." Belle will play Mary, and Meyers is set for the roles of Gabriel and Lucifer. Pacino plays Herod, with Lange starring as Anna the Prophetess (Variety)

• Timothy Hutton is the latest to join Roman Polanski's upcoming flick "The Ghost." The film focuses on a ghostwriter who’s under pressure to finish the memoir of a former prime minister. Hutton plays the latter's American lawyer. Also starring are Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Wilkinson, James Belushi and Kim Cattrall. (The Hollywood Reporter)