The Hollywood Reporter informs us that Orlando Bloom (Legolas) joins Ron Eldard, Jeremy Piven, and William Fichtner in the cast of Revolution Studios' "Black Hawk Down" for director Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") and producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Armageddon"). "Hawk" is slated to start principal photography Feb. 23.

"Hawk," based on Mark Bowden's 1999 nonfiction book of the same name, is about a group of U.S. solders who are dropped into the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade Somali warlord in a mission that was supposed to take less than an hour. The soldiers find themselves fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis in a desperate struggle to survive.