By the end of June, Ewan McGregor will officially have shot no less than three films in 2008. He is currently shooting scenes opposite Oscar winner Hilary Swank in the upcoming biopic Amelia for Fox Searchlight. He had been asked by the film's producers to join the cast, but there were scheduling conflicts with his dark comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, opposite Jim Carey. The film with Carey will soon finish shooting and Ewan will start production of next year's The Da Vinci Code prequel, Angels and Demons, and will play Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca. Angels and Demons which begins production in June will be shot in Europe and Los Angeles. He will reportedly somehow manage to squeeze in Amelia into his already busy schedule. This also does not take into consideration the fact that Ewan has still not announced whether he will star in The Young Pretender or Mary Queen of Scots - both of which are scheduled to go into production this June.
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Hooray! More of Ewan... always a good thing!
ReplyDeleteDo you know if he did any of the 'voice' for the upcoming animated Star Wars movie, "Clone Wars" ?
Hmm...I'm not sure.
ReplyDelete*Runs to go look it up.*
I don't see is name in the cast list though, there are only five named voice actors I see listed on imdb and wikipedia. Someone at giantfreakingrobot.com said he's def not in it. And he sort of wasn't pleased with how the Star Wars prequels turned out so he may not want to be involved with the animated film.
But, if he has done some voice work for the film, I bet the filmmakers would keep it under wraps to surprise people, so who knows.
Thanks for all that effort! :-)
ReplyDeleteI've read he was not thrilled with some of the stuff in the films, but I know he's very proud of having been Obi-wan. If he does not do it, I hope effort will be made to at least get someone who sounds similar.