McAvoy and McGregor to work with Spielberg?

It may just be a rumor right now, but I cannot imagine either of the Scottish actors turning down a chance to work with Steven Spielberg. The Oscar winning director is close to finalizing a deal to shoot a film about the 1988 Lockerbie crash that killed 259 people aboard the aircraft and 11 people on the ground. Wreckage from the aircraft was scattered up to 845 square miles away from the crash site and the impact reached 1.6 on the Richter scale. Both Ewan McGregor and James McAvoy have been linked to the film.
Spielberg will adapt Juval Aviv's novel Flight 103 which chronicles the subsequent police investigation which is said to be the biggest ever mounted in Scotland. When evidence of a bomb was found the investigation became a murder inquiry.
Juval Aviv, the author of the best-selling novel hopes the film will begin shooting in late 2008 and is very interested to shoot in Locherbie and to use Scottish actors in order to make the film more authentic.

Sources: James McAvoy Online via ONTD! BBC.

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