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Ewan McGregor to star in American Pastoral film
Actor Ewan McGregor will star in an adaptation of American Pastoral from director Phillip Noyce. The 43-year-old Impossible actor and Salt filmmaker are working together to adapt Philip Roth's acclaimed novel.
Actor Ewan McGregor will star in an adaptation of American Pastoral from director Phillip Noyce.
The 43-year-old Impossible actor and Salt filmmaker are working together to adapt Philip Roth's acclaimed novel, reports Digita Spy.
McGregor will take on the starring role of Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a blonde Jewish businessman living in Newark, New Jersey, whose ordinary life is disturbed by the chaos of the 1960s under the presidency of JFK's successor Lyndon B Johnson.
The Lincoln Lawyer writer John Romero wrote the script for the long-gestating project.
Roth's The Human Stain and Elegy have both previously been adapted to screen.
McGregor was most recently seen in August: Osage County and A Million Ways to Die in the West, and will appear in the upcoming Jane Got a Gun with Star Wars co-star Natalie Portman.
American Pastoral will go on floors early 2015.
