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Ewan McGregor Loads His Guns To Take Over Villain Role In ‘Jane Got A Gun’ You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content May 6, 2013 7:04pm SERVICES TO SHARE

THIS PAGE. EXCLUSIVE: The resilient indie Western _Jane Got A Gun_ finally has its bad guy. Ewan McGregor is negotiating to play the pivotal role of the leader of an outlaw gang in the film

that Gavin O’Connor is now directing. Natalie Portman plays the wife of an outlaw (Noah Emmerich) who leaves that gang after he gets shot up, and returns home. Knowing his former outlaw

mates will come to finish him off and destroy her farm, Jane is forced to rekindle a relationship with a past love (Joel Edgerton), a capable gunman who can help her. This is the role that

Jude Law originally was going to play, but he exited when original director Lynne Ramsay abruptly left the night before production began. After O’Connor came on to replace Ramsay behind the

camera, they got Bradley Cooper to play the part, but his schedule is so impossibly busy — particularly after shooting got postponed on the David O Russell-directed _American Hustle_ because

of the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent city lockdown — that Cooper had to drop out. This was OK because the villain wasn’t scheduled to shoot until later into the production.

McGregor is a strong replacement. After starring in last year’s _The Impossible_, he stars with Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in _August: Osage County_ and just wrapped production in

Australia on_ Son Of A Gun_. He’s repped by UTA, UK-based United Agents and Sloane, Offer, Weber, Dern. This is the latest of many hurdles overcome on _Jane Got A Gun_ by its producer corps

of Scott Steindorff, Portman and Aleen Keshishian. Sometimes, what is important is that you’re standing at the end of the race. WATCH ON DEADLINE 50 Comments JavaScript is required to load

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