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First Photo of Ewan McGregor as Jesus in LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT

Photo by Gilles Bruno Mingasson
Photo by Gilles Bruno Mingasson

Here’s your first look at LAST DAY IN THE DESERT, written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (ALBERT NOBBS, MOTHER AND CHILD).

Ewan McGregor is Jesus — and the Devil — in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test.

LAST DAY IN THE DESERT also stars Tye Sheridan, Ciarán Hinds, and Ayelet Zurer. The film’s cinematographer is Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki (GRAVITY).

LAST DAY IN THE DESERT will have its World Premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Sunday, January 25th at 6:30pm at the Eccles Theater in Park City. McGregor also has another film premiering that same weekend – Lionsgate’s MORTDECAI, co-starring Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow, which opens on January 23, 2015.

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Ewan McGregor And Tye Sheridan To Star In Rodrigo Garcia’s LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT

Ewan McGregor

Mockingbird Pictures and Division Films announce today that Ewan McGregor and Tye Sheridan have signed on to star in their co-production of LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT, which is written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (Albert Nobbs). Ciarán Hinds (There Will Be Blood) and Ayelet Zurer (Angels and Demons) round out the film’s cast as Sheridan’s Father and Mother.

LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT follows a holy man and a demon—both roles played by McGregor—on a journey through the desert. An encounter with a family struggling to survive in this harsh environment forces the holy man to confront his own fate.

The film is produced by Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis of Mockingbird Pictures along with Wicks Walker of Division Films, who financed the picture in collaboration with recently shingled Ironwood Entertainment, with Aspiration Media and New Balloon in association. The film has commenced principal photography in the Southern California desert.

Garcia and director of photography “Chivo” Lubezki are reunited for the picture after having worked together many years ago on Garcia’s Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, which was awarded Un Certain Regard at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Lubezki received his sixth Academy Award nomination recently for his work on GRAVITY.

Ewan McGregor most recently wrapped production on MORTDECAI opposite Johnny Depp. He currently stars in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.

Tye Sheridan received the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 2013 Venice Film Festival and several film critics recognition, most recently receiving a nomination for Best Young Actor by the Broadcast Film Critics Association on behalf of his performance in the film MUD. He will next be seen starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the upcoming film Joe as well as Gillian Flynn’s DARK PLACES, both set to release this year. Additional upcoming films include THE FORGER with John Travolta and Grass Stains.

Tye Sheridan

ALBERT NOBBS Trailer Starring Glenn Close

Award winning actress Glenn Close plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland in this trailer for ALBERT NOBBS. Some thirty years after donning men’s clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international cast that includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Janet McTeer, Brenda Fricker and Pauline Collins.

The film showed to rave reviews and a bustle of Best Actress Oscar buzz for Close at Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in September. The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards will honor the five-time Oscar nominee with the “Hollywood Career Achievement Award” at the festival’s Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony on October 24, 2011.

Glenn Close’s connection to the character of Albert Nobbs stretches back almost three decades to her 1982 performance in Simone Benmussa’s theatrical interpretation of the short story, Albert Nobbs, by nineteenth century Irish author George Moore. “I think that Albert is one of the truly great characters, and the story, for all its basic simplicity, has a strange emotional power,” begins Close, whose turn in the Off-Broadway production prompted rave reviews and garnered the actress an Obie Award.

Even as Close’s career skyrocketed the character remained with her. “There’s something deeply affecting about Albert’s life,” the actress continues, “She never stopped continuing to move me. I became very busy in my career, but always thought that Albert’s story would make a wonderful movie.”


Glenn Close and director, Rodrigo Garcia, on the set of ALBERT NOBBS Photo Credit: Patrick Redmond

Rodrigo Garcia directs from a script that Glenn Close, along with Man Booker prize-winning novelist John Banville and Gabriella Prekop, adapted from a short story by Irish author George Moore.

ALBERT NOBBS will be in theaters December 2011.