Ewan McGregor to star in 'American Pastoral' film

Actor Ewan McGregor will star in an adaptation of 'American Pastoral' from director Phillip Noyce.

The 43-year-old 'Impossible' actor and 'Salt' filmmaker are working together to adapt Philip Roth's acclaimed novel, reported Digita Spy.

McGregor will take on the starring role of Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a blonde Jewish businessman living in Newark, New Jersey, whose ordinary life is disturbed by the chaos of the 1960s under the presidency of JFK's successor Lyndon B Johnson.

The 'Lincoln Lawyer' writer John Romero wrote the script for the long-gestating project.

Roth's 'The Human Stain' and 'Elegy' have both previously been adapted to screen.
 

McGregor was most recently seen in 'August: Osage County' and 'A Million Ways to Die in the West', and will apear in the upcoming 'Jane Got a Gun' with 'Star Wars' co-star Natalie Portman.

'American Pastoral' will go on floors early 2015.