Ewan McGregor cast in Australian film Son of a Gun

Trainspotting and Star Wars star Ewan McGregor has been cast in a new Australian thriller Son of a Gun, to be directed by first time feature film-maker Julius Avery.

The film is a heist thriller, written and directed by Avery, with McGregor set to play a master criminal, who takes on an apprentice.

Avery previously won the Jury Prize at Cannes International Film Festival and a Best Short Film award at the AFIs for his 2008 film Jerrycan.

Avery told Encore: “I’d always had Ewan up there in my top of the list and it just so happened, my agent in the US reps Ewan, and he put us together. Ewan read the script and connected with it and we had a good chat and felt he was right for the role.”