Ewan McGregor to Make Directorial Debut With 'American Pastoral' — hollywoodreporter.com

Ewan McGregor is putting the final touches to his directorial feature film debut. The veteran actor was already on board to star with Jennifer Connelly in American Pastoral, a film adaptation based on the Philip Roth novel for Lakeshore Entertainment that Phillip Noyce was previously attached to direct. Now the actor is stepping for the first time behind the camera as director, with Dakota Fanning joining the cast. "I've wanted to direct for years and wanted to wait until I found a story that I 'had' to tell and in this script I knew I had found that story," McGregor said in a statement Wednesday.

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