Ewan McGregor will be joining the likes of Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Virginia Madsen in Mira Nair’s “Amelia”

The film traces the story of the legendary aviatrix (Swank) and records her rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam (Gere) and passionate affair with Gene Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal.

Variety reports that the filmmakers tried to get McGregor involved for quite some time, but couldn’t due to schedule conflicts.

Ewan’s got a busy schedule ahead of him. He is currently finishing “I Love You, Philip Morris” alongside Jim Carrey, and once it’s completed, he will start working on Ron Howard’s “Angels and Demons” (follow up to “Da Vinci Code’) and in early June, so the “Amelia” role will happen sometime between.

[Wenn]