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."

Orlando Bloom, Vincent Cassel and Olga Kurylenko are set to join "The Cross."

According to Variety, "Bloom plays a man seeking to cross a mysterious border, something no one else has achieved."

Cassel will play a guard who tries to prevent Bloom form achieving his goal. Kurylenko will take the female lead, but details about her role are unknown at this stage.

The trade also says the project is produced on a $24 million budget, with production set to start this summer in Australia.

This is obviously not Niccol's first visit to the sci-fi genre. He kicked off his directorial career in 1997 with "Gattaca," followed by "S1m0ne." Most recently, he helmed the enjoyable thriller "Lord of War."

As far as Orlando Bloom is concerned, he was last seen in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." Dang, that was ages ago. He's got "New York, I Love You" and "Sympathy for Delicious" coming up.

The good-looking Kurylenko, of course, last starred in "Quantum of Solace."