Ewan McGregor Moves To AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of the George Clooney produced drama, August: Osage County. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts star in the John Wells directed film – which is based on the Pulitzer and Tony-winning play by Tracy Letts.

According to THR:

“McGregor will play Bill Fordham, Roberts’ estranged husband and Streep’s son-in-law, a college professor who left his wife for one of his students but wants to be there for his family.

The story revolves around the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis brings them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional pill-popping woman (Streep) who raised them.”

Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Sam Shepard, Margo Martindale, and Dermot Mulroney also star in the film which has endured a long road to the screen
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Expect some sort of awards talk when this one is released.

Source: THR via Screen Rant