Ewan McGregor has discussed his forthcoming role in HBO pilot The Corrections.
The Perfect Sense actor will play troubled academic Chip in the project, adapted from Jonathan Franzen's 2001 novel.
"I haven't seen many of the scripts yet," he told Vulture. "But it feels like it's going to be accurate to the book, and really detailed."
Franzen will adapt his own book for television, alongside director Noah Baumbach.
"It looks like we'll have the luxury of time to push deeper through the book and explore parts of the story that aren't in it," explained McGregor. "That'll be a first."
The Corrections traces the troubled lives of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three children, from the 1950s to the millennium.
Oscar winners Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper will also star in HBO's adaptation, with Franzen and Baumbach executive producing alongside The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo producer Scott Rudin.
Other projects in the works at HBO include Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom and comedy pilot All Talk starring Ben Stiller and Alan Alda.
