Actor Ewan McGregor will direct a feature film adaptation of Philip Roth’s bestselling novel American Pastoral.
This will the McGregor’s first time out behind the camera. McGregor will also star in the film along with Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning.
Deadline.com has the scoop:
The story follows Seymour “Swede” Levov (McGregor), a legendary high school athlete who grows up to marry a former beauty queen (Connolly) and inherits his father’s business. Swede’s seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter (Fanning) rebels by becoming a revolutionary and committing a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.