New LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT Featurette and Clips Witness the new LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT featurette and clips! The film, written and directed by Rodrigo García (Albert Nobbs, Mother and Child, Passengers), stars Ewan McGregor, Tye Sheridan, and Ciarán Hinds. LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT will be released in theaters next Friday. 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.