Ewan McGregor Signs on to ‘Amelia’
Ewan McGregor has signed on to co-star in the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia for Fox Searchlight.The actor joins Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Virginia Madsen who have already boarded the project, which Mira Nair is helming, says Variety.
The story centers on the legendary aviatrix (Swank) and chronicles her rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam (Gere) and passionate affair with Gene Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal. Ronald Bass penned the screenplay.
The filmmakers have long been trying to land McGregor but were having trouble working out the scheduling. The actor is about to wrap “I Love You, Philip Morris” alongside Jim Carrey and will begin work on Ron Howard’s “Da Vinci Code” follow-up Angels and Demons in early June. McGregor will sandwich the Amelia role in between.
Amelia is currently shooting in Toronto.
Ewan McGregor in talks for ‘Angels and Demons’
Ewan McGregor is in negotiations to join the cast of Ron Howard’s Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons.Based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, the film centres on Tom Hanks’s Robert Langdon as he tries to stop an Illuminati plot to destroy the Vatican.
McGregor is in talks to take on the role of a Catholic Church insider who aids Langdon.
Ayelet Zurer has already been cast as the female lead.
Ron Howard will direct from Akiva Goldsman’s screenplay for a May 15, 2009 release.
