Dakota Fanning has signed on to co-star alongside Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly in Lakeshore Entertainment’s adaptation of Philip Roth’sย Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “American Pastoral,” TheWrap has learned.
Philip Noyce (“The Giver”) is directing from a script by John Romano, who adapted Roth’s acclaimed novel.
“American Pastoral”ย follows Seymour “Swede” Levov (“McGregor), a legendary high school athlete, who grows up to marry a former beauty queen (Connelly) and inherits his father’s business. Swede’s seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter Merry (Fanning) rebels by becoming a revolutionary and commits a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.