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  • Natalie Portman’s Jane Got a Gun Trailer Released … Finally.

    Natalie Portman finally debuted in the first trailer for her role in Jane Got a Gun, which tells the story of a pioneer woman who resorts to seeking the help of her ex-lover to defend her home and family from a gang of bounty hunters.

    A troubled production, Jane Got a Gun was originally touted as a Blacklist script from Insurgent writer Brian Duffield to be directed by We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay and starring Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender and Joel Edgerton. That didn’t last long. Fassbender soon left because of reported schedule conflicts, and Ramsay left the production soon after. And then, Warrior director Gavin O’Connor quickly replaced Ramsay and hired Anthony Tambakis to rewrite the script.

    The production also suffered several cast changes. According to Entertainment Weekly, Jude Law and Bradley Cooper considered taking on the leading man role.

    But finally, after several pushed release dates, we’re finally getting our first look at footage from the film.

    The international trailer, with Portman, Edgerton and Scottish native Ewan McGregor doing a Southern accent, was released on Wednesday.

    Jane Got a Gun with Natalie Portman will be released in France and the U.K. next month and is expected to hit theaters in the U.S in February.

    Think you’ll go see Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun?

  • Jennifer Connelly To Be Directed By Co-Star Ewan McGregor In ‘American Pastoral’

    Jennifer Connelly and Ewan McGregor are set to star in an adaptation of Phillip Roth’s American Pastoral. Now that director Phillip Noyce has left the project for undisclosed reasons, McGregor has stepped forward to take on the role as the film’s director. “Ewan’s talent goes far beyond his on-screen work and we’re excited to be working with a director who is as passionate as we are about telling the story of American Pastoral,” said Tom Rosenberg, Chief Executive Officer of Lakeshore Entertainment who are producing the film.

    McGregor also released a statement, saying, “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. 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.”

    American Pastoral is set amidst the American counterculture during the Vietnam war and explores the fallout of a terrorist act perpetrated by a young woman and how it affects the lives of her family, especially her father Seymour Levov (played by McGregor). The screenplay for American Pastoral was written by John Romano, who’s known his work in The Lincoln Lawyer.

    This is another high profile project for Connelly, who’s been making waves recently with her new film Aloft. Released the same year as her film Noah (directed by Darren Aronofsky), Aloft tells the story of a struggling farm-worker known for her healing powers and her relationship with the son she abandoned 20 years ago. Connelly also starred in the film Shelter directed by her husband Paul Bettany, about two homeless people who fall in love.

    McGregor, on the other hand, has been busy with countless projects including Mortdecai with Johnny Depp, the crime thriller Son of A Gun, and Don Cheadle’s upcoming Miles Davis biopic among others.

  • Olivia Munn Gushes Over NFL Beau Aaron Rodgers — What He Does Is ‘the Sexiest Thing’

    Olivia Munn says her romance with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is stronger than ever.

    “It’s going really great,” Olivia Munn told E! News Wednesday at the premiere of her latest film, Mortdecai, alongside Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor. “I’m very happy. He’s the best.”

    Olivia Munn said that while the end to the Packers’ season was disappointing, she is still so proud of the man she has been dating since May.

    “I’m just so proud of him and his team, and what I was able to see this season was unbelievable,” said Oivia Munn gushed.

    “I’ve never seen anything like that. The things that he’s gone through this season and what he’s overcome and what he does, it’s really unbelievable,” she said, referring to Aaron Rodgers’ calf injury, which has led him to pull out of Sunday’s Pro Bowl.

    “It’s definitely the sexiest thing to watch your boyfriend be that great over and over and over,” Olivia Munn said, adding, “What Aaron does and going through, the injuries bit then coming back and dominating like he does? It’s awe-inspiring.”

    Olivia Munn recently shared the story of her adorable first meeting with her quarterback beau on Late Night With Conan OBrien.

    “I said, ‘So what do you do?’ And he said, ‘Oh I play football.’ ‘Cool. What college?’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, no. I play professional.’ And I was like, ‘Cool, what position?’ ‘Quarterback.’ ‘Cool.’ Like that was kind of it not knowing that he’s like Super Bowl MVP or any of those things,” Olivia said on Conan of her very famous and successful boyfriend. “All I saw was that he was like really attractive. I didn’t really care what he did. I was like you are such a big man!”

  • Star Wars Fake Fans are ‘Wankers’ and ‘Lowlifes’, Says Ewan McGregor

    With the latest Star Wars installment in the making, there is an entire industry around Star Wars merchandise and paraphernalia that is heating up again. George Lucas himself famously made a fortune by not dismissing the possibilities in licensing merchandise from the movies.

    Sometimes making money on that stuff leads people to be a bit pushy. Ewan McGregor, who played a younger Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel series, recently spoke to Details Magazine about his run-ins with the folks who are only out to get his autograph for re-sale.

    “I don’t have any experience with [real fans at conventions]. I’ve never been to one of the conventions. The people I meet are the fuckers who want me to sign Star Wars photos so they can sell them on the Internet or the people at premieres who are crushing children against barriers to get me to sign their fucking picture of Obi-Wan Kenobi. They’re not fans—they’re parasitical lowlifes and fucking wankers.”

    Autographed prints of McGregor as Obi-Wan sell for between $100 and $200 on eBay and other online shops. So the market is understandably lucrative for dealers.

    McGregor is aware that Phantom Menace, one of the prequel installments he was in, is not well-liked by fans. Fans are particularly critical of the Jar Jar Binks character. But McGregor seems to understand the disdain fans have.

    “I watched it once, at the premiere, so I’m not in a good position to judge. They had a tall order, the three films I did. The fans waited so long and wanted to feel like they did when they watched the first film, but they were grown-ups by that time. I don’t mind the criticism. I’ve heard it to my face.”

  • Ewan McGregor Would Play Obi Wan In Star Wars VII If Asked

    With the release date for Star Wars Episode VII in 2015 drawing closer and closer, there have been a lot of rumors floating around the web relating to who will be starring in the new J.J. Abrams version of the famous sci-fi saga. One of the rumors that has been recently spreading is if Benedict Cumberbatch will star in the new version, along with Ewan McGregor, who played the young Obi Wan Kenobi in the first three episodes of the George Lucas saga.

    This past Thursday (September 12, 2013), the Scotland-born actor told E! News that he has not been asked by Abrams to star, but if McGregor did receive a call inviting him to continue playing the role of Obi Wan Kenobi, he would gladly accept the honor.

    According to IMDb, the other main Star Wars characters, such as: Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, and C-3PO are all rumored to make an appearance in the new Abrams film. Also, according to IMDb, the site lists Carrie Fisher’s role as “Leia Solo,” which means it would continue on from Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

    Ewan McGregor’s role of Obi Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars films is quite unique. On the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith – Web Documentaries of Revenge of the Sith DVD, McGregor discussed that he made a special effort to learn the “mannerisms, speech timings, and accents” to closely resemble the actor who originally played Kenobi, Alec Guiness.

    Currently, Ewan McGregor is working on August: Osage County, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. August: Osage County will be released in theatres on January 2nd, 2014 (Source: IMDb).

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