Connelly will star with Ewan McGregor in the Philip Roth adaptation for Lakeshore Entertainment
(August 4, 2014) – Lakeshore Entertainment has cast Academy Award® winner Jennifer Connelly to co-star in the upcoming Philip Roth adaptation, . Connelly joins Ewan McGregor in the Phillip Noyce directed project based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Connelly will play “Dawn”, the wife of McGregor’s “Swede Levov”.
“Jennifer Connelly is one of the great actresses of our time,” stated Lakeshore CEO, Tom Rosenberg. “We always wanted her to play ‘Dawn’ in American Pastoral and we’re thrilled to be working with her.”
AMERICAN PASTORAL’s adapted screenplay was written by John Romano (LINCOLN LAWYER) with filming scheduled for March 2015 in . AMERICAN PASTORAL will be produced by Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi.
AMERICAN PASTORALfollows Seymour “Swede” Levov, a legendary high school athlete, who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father’s business. Swede’s seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter rebels by becoming a revolutionary and commits a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.
Connelly previously starred in NOAH and won an Oscar® for A BEAUTIFUL MIND. She will next be seen in the upcoming ALOFT and SHELTER. Connelly is represented by CAA and Risa Shapiro at Schiff Company.
ABOUT LAKESHORE ENTERTAINMENT
Lakeshore Entertainment is one of the leading independent production, finance and international sales and distribution companies. Founded in 1994 by Chairman and CEO Tom Rosenberg, Lakeshore has produced more than 60 films including the Academy Award® winning MILLION DOLLAR BABY as well as RUNAWAY BRIDE, THE UGLY TRUTH, , the UNDERWORLD franchise, , CRANK, THE GIFT, AUTUMN IN NEW YORK and ARLINGTON ROAD. Lakeshore’s recent films include THE LINCOLN LAWYER, starring Matthew McConaughey, UNDERWORLD AWAKENING starring Kate Beckinsale and released by Sony Pictures, and STAND UP GUYS, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin. In 2014 Lakeshore released the comedy WALK OF SHAME, starring Elizabeth Banks and James Marsden, along with I, FRANKENSTEIN, starring Aaron Eckhart. Lakeshore is currently in post-production on THE AGE OF ADALINE starring Blake Lively, Harrison Ford and Ellen Burystyn along with THE VATICAN TAPES starring Michael Pena, Dougray Scott, and Djimon Hounsou.
