Ewan McGregor to Direct American Pastoral Adaptation — collider.com

Ewan McGregor is getting to the director’s chair for the first time. It was announced today by Lakeshore Entertainment that McGregor will be making his helming debut on American Pastoral, the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Philip Roth. Set in the U.S. during the Vietnam War, the story revolves around a legendary high school athlete who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father’s business. His perfect life is thrown for a loop when his daughter becomes a revolutionary and commits a deadly act of political terrorism.

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