Ewan to make directorial debut with American Pastoral.

My dear Scottish will also take a lead role in the Philip Roth adaptation, alongside Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning

With a 20-year career in front of the camera, Ewan is now heading behind it. For his directorial debut he’ll take on the upcoming film adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral, which he is already set to star in alongside Jennifer Connelly and the newly-added Dakota Fanning.

“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,” Ewan said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to the challenge of being on both sides of the camera, especially knowing I’ll be working with Jennifer and Dakota.” Shooting from an adapted screenplay by The Lincoln Lawyer scribe John Romano, production will begin in September.

Narrated by recurring Roth character Nathan Zuckerman, American Pastoral is a look back at the life of Ewan’s character Seymour “Swede” Levov, whose daughter sets off a bomb to protest America’s involvement in Vietnam. Set amid the high drama of the counterculture, war and Watergate, the novel explores how the terror act sends shock waves through Levov’s family life.

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