Ewan McGregor is in final talks to join Tom Hanks and yesterday’s casting of Aylet Zurer in Angels & Demons.
McGregor is set to take on the role of a powerful Vatican insider who assists Langdon in his struggle against a powerful group who have vowed to blow up the sovereign city state in the adaptation of the Dan Brown bestseller. It is the role that Orlando Bloom was rumored to be up for last year.
Director Ron Howard has once again gone British for his supporting cast, something he filled Da Vinci Code with. Paul Bettany (who gave a memorable performance as an albino monk), Alfred Molina and Ian McKellen all played their parts pretty well and kept up the interest in the original movie when the writing perhaps wasn’t quite at it’s best.
McGregor will have the same challenge here. His career is quite unlike any other actor out there because he can easily breeze in and out between massive Hollywood productions and small Indie flicks without his Hollywood star diminishing. Filming is set to begin very shortly so we might see more of the supporting cast fall out soon.
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I think his career has been quite uneven, I doubt that he will be a major star because of the bomb which was The Island, while his new film with Hugh Jackman Deception looks awful. Its really shocked me that he has never been nominated for an Oscar while Jude Law has two.
I think that it’s great that he’s doing the movie. I am a very big fan of his and i think that he is what every actor aspires to be in the sense that he can secure his financials by doing the blockbusters and still be doing great independant movies. And just to clarify, if a movie bombs, it doesn’t mean that he will never be a “star” (whatever that means). Name an actor that has never had a flop (at the box office), who is widely praised for their acting. I didn’t think so.
I’m a fan of the man but for whatever reason he is not a box office draw. Maybe its because he has yet to do a really convincing American accent.