, and wrote the screenplay for Scrooged
and Great Expectations
. But his directorial debut, Passion Play, has looked and sounded like a disaster since the beginning. Even with a cast that features Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke(mistakenly referred to in the trailer as an Oscar winner), Megan Fox, and Bill Murray, the film was absolutely crushed when it premiered in Toronto last year.It'll get a very brief theatrical run on May 6th before filling up store shelves on DVD just three weeks later. You'll probably need a fire hose to get all the copies off the shelf. Looks like a worse version of Angel Heart 
to me, and what the frig is up with Murray's hair in this trailer?? Nate (Mickey Rourke), a small-time jazz musician, is clearly a hard-luck case. Caught trying to break into a car, he is taken off into the desert where his assailant puts a gun to his head. Game over? Not quite. Stumbling into a circus pitched amidst the vast expanses of the southwest desert, Nate finds himself drawn to the exotic beauty of Lily (Megan Fox), the Bird Woman. Lily is cold and dismissive; socializing with customers is not her scene. But it dawns on her that this gentle giant may well be her way out of a life of eccentric exposition. Nate is protective and understanding, and to him her aquiline beauty is a magic part of her uniqueness. As their bond deepens, Nate finds that his dreams of bliss are about to be thwarted by Happy Shannon (Bill Murray), a cucumber-cool businessman with deep pockets and an eye for the bizarre.
