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Ewan McGregor Will Have The Last Days In The Desert

February 5, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Ewan McGregor has bagged himself a new role, as Variety reports that he’s signed up to star in Last Days In The Desert, alongside Mud star Tye Sheridan. Rodrigo Garcia (Albert Nobbs) is set to write and direct the film.

It sounds like McGregor will be pulling double duty, as he’ll be ‘both a holy man and a demon on a journey through the desert who encounters a family struggling to survive — forcing the holy man to confront his own fate.’

Ciaran Hinds and Ayelet Zurer are also onboard, playing the parents of Sheridan’s character.

The movie will star shooting later this month in the Southern California desert.

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ACTORS: Ewan McGregor, Tye Sheridan

Don Cheadle To Direct & Star In Miles Davis Biopic, With Ewan McGregor & Zoe Saldana Also Attached

November 13, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

There have been various attempts at making a biopic of Miles Davis, but now one’s moving forward as Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, and Zoe Saldana are set to star in Kill the Trumpet Player, which is based on a few dangerous days in the life of the musician, fighter and genius, as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (McGregor) to steal back his music.

Cheadle is set to play Davis and will be pulling double-duty and he’s set to make his feature directorial debut from a script co-written with Steven Baigelman. The actor has been involved for a couple of years, but it’s only now it’s getting made. Herbie Hancock, a legend in his own right and close collaborator of Davis, will participate in the project as well.

There’s no news on who McGregor and Saldana will play.

BiFrost Picture’s Daniel Wagner commented, “Don is one of our generation’s greatest actors, and this is the role he was born to play. His take on the conventional biopic of one of music’s most celebrated icons is cinematic “jazz” and too unique to resist. It fits naturally with BiFrost’s commitment to support talent and their passion projects, so we are thrilled to work with Don on his feature directorial debut.”

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ACTORS: Ewan McGregor, Zoe Saldana, Don Cheadle

New August: Osage County Trailer – Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts & Benedict Cumberbatch team up

September 12, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

As this trailer shows, August: Osage County has certainly pulled together an impressive cast, including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Dermot Mulroney and Sam Shepard.

Based on Terry Letts’ Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, the film is about the dysfunctional Weston family and the daughters who have gone their separate ways, until a crisis brings them back to their Midwestern home. The film should be out later this year.

John Wells directs. The movie is due for an Oscar qualifying run in the US this Christmas, which a UK release set for mid January. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Dermot Mulroney DIRECTORS: John Wells FILMS: August: Osage County

Ewan McGregor & Gwyneth Paltrow In Talks To Join Johnny Depp In Mortdecai

July 25, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, Johnny Depp signed up to star in Mortdecai, filling the gap in his schedule left when he stepped away from the Whitey Bulger biopic he’d been involved with. Now he may have some company in the new movie, as Variety reports that Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor are in talks to join Depp in David Koepp’s film.

Koepp is currently rewriting the original script by Eric Aronson, which in turn is based on Kyril Bonfiglioli’s 1970s book, The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery.

Depp will play Charles Mortdecai, a debonair art dealer and part-time rogue who travels the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. He also has to juggle angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist.

There’s no news on exactly who Paltrow or McGregor might play, although if we had to bet we’d say Paltrow will be the wife, while McGregor will be turning Mi5.

The film will shoot once Depp has completed Transcendence and his role as the big bad wolf in the musical Into The Woods.

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ACTORS: Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Gwyneth Paltrow DIRECTORS: David Koepp FILMS: Mortdecai

August: Osage County Trailer – Meryl Streep launches her next Oscar campaign

May 13, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A very strange thing happened this year – Meryl Streep wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. However on the evidence of this trailer, she’s going for yet another nom with August: Osage County.

Based on Terry Letts’ Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, the star-packed film also stars Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Dermot Mulroney and Sam Shepard.

John Wells directs the film, which is about the dysfunctional Weston family and the daughters who have gone their separate ways, until a crisis brings them back to their Midwestern home. The film should be out later this year. [Read more…]

Ewan McGregor Steps In For Bradley Cooper In Jane Got A Gun

May 7, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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.

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ACTORS: Ewan McGregor, Bradley Cooper DIRECTORS: Gavin O'Connor FILMS: Jane Got A Gun

New Jack The Giant Slayer Trailer & Clip – Nicholas Hoult gets his fantasy action on

February 12, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It seems Warner Bros has listened to those who thought the first Jack The Giant Slayer trailer made the whole thing look like a dumb, not particularly funny comedy, as this new promo brings on the rock music, ups the action and puts everything in fantasy peril.

I’m still not 100% convinced by the movie, but director Bryan Singer is normally trustworthy, so hopefully it’ll work out well.

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 new trailer above and a clip below. The film’s out March 22nd.

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ACTORS: Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor DIRECTORS: Bryan Singer FILMS: Jack The Giant Slayer

Ewan McGregor Will Be Our Kind Of Traitor In John Le Carre Adaptation

January 18, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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.

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ACTORS: Ewan McGregor DIRECTORS: Justin Kurzel

Jack The Giant Slayer Banner Posters Arrive – Do you prefer the giants or humans?

January 16, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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.

Take a look at the banners above and below.

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ACTORS: Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Eleanor Tomlinson DIRECTORS: Bryan Singer FILMS: Jack The Giant Slayer

New Jack The Giant Slayer Trailer – Take a look at Bryan Singer’s fairytale fantasy

November 21, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s taken a long time to get Jack The Giant Slayer to the screen, largely due to the special effects and creation of the fairy tale world, which saw the shooting delayed and then the film’s initial June 2012 release date slipping. However Bryan Singer’s film is now incoming, with a March 22nd 2013 release date set and a new, fantastical trailer having popped up online.

The trailer certainly suggests this is going to be an overtly family friendly affair, with liberal doses of comedy and a tone that suggests this won’t have the darkness of some recent fantasy movies. The film is a liberal retelling of the classic Jack & The Beanstalk tale, in which the long-standing peace between men and giants is threatened, as a young farmer (Nicholas Hoult) leads an expedition into the giants’ kingdom in hopes of rescuing a kidnapped princess.

Alongside Hoult, the likes of Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy and Ian McShane star. To be honest we’re not entirely convinced by this trailer, as it seems a little silly, but we’ll reserve judgement.

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ACTORS: Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy DIRECTORS: Bryan Singer FILMS: Jack The Giant Slayer