Ryder returns to '80s for "Informers"

Actress Winona Ryder poses at the taping of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award gala honoring Al Pacino in Hollywood, California, June 7, 2007. Ryder and Mickey Rourke have joined the ensemble cast of ''The Informers,'' an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke have joined the ensemble cast of "The Informers," an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel.

The two join Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh, Ashley Olsen, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci and Austin Nichols in the drama, to be directed by Gregor Jordan.

The film, set in 1980s Los Angeles, follows a week in the life of a group of morally challenged characters -- a movie executive, his wife, his mistress, a rock star, a vampire and a kidnapper.

Ryder will play a newscaster who has just been dumped after a longtime affair with a married producer. Rourke will play an immoral former studio security guard who plots to kidnap a small child to sell to the leader of a Los Angeles cult.

Principal photography on the Senator Entertainment production will begin in October in Los Angeles.

Ryder next stars in "Welcome," directed by Kirsten Dunst, and has finished shooting Daniel Waters' "Sex and Death 101," set for release next year. Rourke next appears in John Madden's "Killshot."

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