Ewan McGregor is set to take the director's chair for the first time to helm upcoming adaption flick 'American Pastoral.'
The Lakeshore Entertainment project, which is based on Pulitzer-winning Philip Roth novel, stars McGregor, Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning, and is set to begin filming in September in Pittsburgh, Deadline.com reported.
McGregor was tapped after Phillip Noyce exited the film, which was penned by 'The Lincoln Lawyer' scribe John Romano.
The story follows Seymour "Swede" Levov (McGregor), a legendary high school athlete who's seemingly perfect life with a former beauty queen wife (Connolly), his father's business and a daughter shatters when his daughter (Fanning) rebels by becoming a revolutionary and committing a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.