Ewan McGregor attempts a crime against nature, in the firstSalmon Fishingtrailer

Paul Torday ’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen wasone of our best-loved examplesof a record book that ’s secretly skill fable — about a fisheries scientist who undertakes the mad , ambitious project of introducing salmon to the Yemen . Including all of the bioengineering ( and regular engine room ) that give out into that .

One Of The Best Science Fiction Novels Of Recent year Will Be A Movie Starring Ewan McGregor

Now it ’s been made into a movie , starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt , from director Lasse Halstrom ( What ’s Eating Gilbert Grape , Dear John ) and author Simon Beaufoy ( Slumdog Millionaire ) . The first veridical laggard is out … and it look middling fun . A bit more romance - oriented than I remember the Scripture being , but that ’s to be expected . What do you cerebrate ?