We’ve said this before, but it seems the cast of Jane Got A Gun is finally complete, with Ewan McGregor stepping in to on take the villain role in the movie. He replaces the recently departed Bradley Cooper, who dropped out due to scheduling problems.

Cooper himself was a replacement for Jude Law, who dropped out shortly after director Lynne Ramsay left. She bailed shortly before shooting was set to commence, due to conflict with the producers. Even before that, Michael Fassbender had left, as he couldn’t shoot Jane Got A Gun and X-Men: Days Of Future Past at the same time.

However now it appears everything is finally sorted, with McGregor stepping into the villain role. The movie is currently on a shooting break, which was factored in when Gavin O’Connor stepped in to direct at the last minute. Ewan will head to the set next month when shooting restarts.

Natalie Portman stars as the title character, whose husband (Noah Emmerich) comes home riddled with bullet wounds. When the band of outlaws of shot him comes to Jane’s farm to finish the job, she seeks help from a former lover (Joel Edgerton) to ward off these gunmen. McGregor will play the leader of the bad guys.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy got a huge amount of praise when it was released in 2011, so it’s little surprise filmmakers have been sniffing around other John Le Carre novels. Now it seems one of the author’s latest could be coming to the screen, with Ewan McGregor attached to star.

The Daily Mail has the news, saying Ewan is attached to star in Our Kind of Traitor, based on Le Carre’s 2010 espionage novel. Here’s the synopsis from Amazon, ‘An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.

‘What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain’s Intelligence Establishment.’ The problem is that the Russian believes Perry is a spy, but he isn’t, which causes issues when the Rusky confesses to being the world’s biggest money launderer who want to turn himself in.

Justin Kurzel, who directed the excellent Aussie thriller The Snowtown Murders, is set to helm the project.

It’s only a couple of months until Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer hits cinemas on March 22nd, and so Warner had decided to try and keep us interested by releasing two banners posters – one featuring the giants and the other the humans. We have to say Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci and Eleanor Tomlinson all look rather dashing, while the giants won’t be winning any beauty awards.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend… and gets the chance to become a legend himself.’

Take a look at the banners above and below.

While we in the West have vague notions that Iran isn’t exactly the greatest place in the world, it’s fairly rare that we get stories emerging about life in the country. Now Kari Skogland (Fifty Dead Men Walking) is hoping to help remedy that, with a movie based on Marina Nemat’s memoir, Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman’s Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison.

In the hope of ensuring some international interest in the tale, the producers are lining up some well known names, with Moviehole reporting that Ewan McGregor and Evan Rachel Wood are in talks for the movie. Neither will be pretending to be middle-eastern, as they’re expected to take supporting roles,

Nemat was a young girl when the Islamic Revolution changed the face of Iran in 1979. During her teenage years she became increasingly interested in the Koran and politics. At her school, Nemat decided to speak out what she though was wrong, and ultimately caused a student walk out.

Her rebellion was taken very seriously by Iranian officials. She was arrested and thrown in the infamous Tehran prison called Evin. Here she was tortured and sentenced to death for her perceived crimes against the state. An unlikely chance at salvation came at the hands of a guard named Ali, who had fallen in love with her.

Ewan McGregor tends to have his best success with rom coms, and that where he’s headed back to as he has joined the cast of the upcoming film industry set romantic comedy Born to Be King, with Kate Hudson in talks to star as well, according to Variety.

Peter Capaldi, best known as an actor in the like of The Thick Of It but who’s also helmed the likes of Strictly Sinatra, will direct from his own original screenplay. The story follows a Hollywood extra (McGregor) who bares an uncanny resemblance to a big time star. Kate Hudson will play a starlet embroiled in a war with one of her co-stars.

The film is scheduled to shoot this January at Pinewood Studios.

Ewan McGregor is one of those actors some love and others hate, but he does tend to pick unusual and interesting projects (which is why some have been great and a lot have been dreadful). Now he has signed on to star in the crime thriller Son of a Gun, for Australian director Julius Avery.

The movie is about Australian’s most wanted criminal (McGregor), and the complex relationship he has with a young protege. The project will be shopped around to buyers at the American Film Market in November.

Julius Avery will direct from his own screenplay. It will be the filmmaker’s first feature-length project after he earned recognition for his short film Jerrycan, a Jury Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

Aaron Gilbert is executive producing for Media House Capital, which is financing the picture with ScreenWest. Production will begin in early 2013, with shooting to take place in Perth and Kalgoorlie, Australia. (Source: Variety)

August: Osage County, may not have the catchiest of names, but it’s certainly got a good cast, with the news that Ewan McGregor is joining Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Sam Shepard and Benedict Cumberbatch in the movie.

John Wells is directing the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts (who’s also adapted the screenplay). It’s about the dysfunctional Weston family and the daughters who have gone their separate ways, until a crisis brings them back to their Midwestern home. Meryl Streep stars as the mother, Violet Weston, with Julia Roberts and Margo Martindale playing her daughters, Barbara and Mattie Fay.

McGregor will play Bill Fordham, who is Streep’s son-in-law. It’s a complicated part, as Fordham left his wife for one of his students – a college hottie – but still wants to be around to support his family. Indeed half the play is about unpacking the complicated lives of the characters.

The movie should hit cinemas next year. (Source: THR)