Exclusive: Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr (An Officer And A Gentleman) and Jurgen Prochnow (The Da Vinci Code) have joined Pierce Brosnan in war veteran story The Last Rifleman.
Deadline first revealed Brosnan was fronting director Terry Loane’s (Mickybo And Me) project ahead of TIFF. Inspired by a true story, Brosnan will play Artie Crawford, a Second World War veteran living in a care home in Northern Ireland who has just lost his wife. On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, he decides to escape his care home and embarks on a journey to France to pay his final respects.
WestEnd Films is handling sales at AFM. CAA Media Finance and WestEnd are co-repping US rights.
Principal photography will take place from February in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Developed with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, the film was written by Kevin Fitzpatrick and is produced by...
Deadline first revealed Brosnan was fronting director Terry Loane’s (Mickybo And Me) project ahead of TIFF. Inspired by a true story, Brosnan will play Artie Crawford, a Second World War veteran living in a care home in Northern Ireland who has just lost his wife. On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, he decides to escape his care home and embarks on a journey to France to pay his final respects.
WestEnd Films is handling sales at AFM. CAA Media Finance and WestEnd are co-repping US rights.
Principal photography will take place from February in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Developed with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, the film was written by Kevin Fitzpatrick and is produced by...
- 11/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Jj Murphy has died at the age of 86, just four days after filming his first scenes in Game of Thrones.
The Northern Ireland actor - who had recently been cast in Game of Thrones as Ser Denys Mallister - collapsed and died on Friday (August 8), according to the Belfast Telegraph.
Murphy trained with the Ulster Group Theatre School and worked for a number of years at Belfast's Lyric Theatre.
Mallister is the oldest member of the Night's Watch in George Rr Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, on which Game of Thrones is based.
It has not yet been announced whether his role will be recast or if future scenes will be rewritten.
Murphy also had a role in upcoming movie Dracula Untold, as well as Cbbc series The Sparticle Mystery.
His other film credits include Mickybo and Me, Cal and Angela's Ashes.
Actress Maggie Cronin paid tribute to the actor,...
The Northern Ireland actor - who had recently been cast in Game of Thrones as Ser Denys Mallister - collapsed and died on Friday (August 8), according to the Belfast Telegraph.
Murphy trained with the Ulster Group Theatre School and worked for a number of years at Belfast's Lyric Theatre.
Mallister is the oldest member of the Night's Watch in George Rr Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, on which Game of Thrones is based.
It has not yet been announced whether his role will be recast or if future scenes will be rewritten.
Murphy also had a role in upcoming movie Dracula Untold, as well as Cbbc series The Sparticle Mystery.
His other film credits include Mickybo and Me, Cal and Angela's Ashes.
Actress Maggie Cronin paid tribute to the actor,...
- 8/11/2014
- Digital Spy
Updated: We have just been contacted by Tilda Swinton’s PR company in the UK who have confirmed that this story is in fact incorrect and Swinton has not been cast in Sisters.
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Tilda Swinton (Burn After Reading) and Ciarán Hinds (The Rite) have been cast in Northern Irish drama Sisters.
Terry Loane (Mickybo and Me) is attached to direct from a screenplay penned by TV screenwriter Ronan Blaney.
Sisters tells the tale of a Irish mother, feminist, activist and nun who lands at a school and changes thousands of deprived kids’ lives around with her skills as a teacher.
UK production company Cineman Films are shopping the film around at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Source: THR...
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Tilda Swinton (Burn After Reading) and Ciarán Hinds (The Rite) have been cast in Northern Irish drama Sisters.
Terry Loane (Mickybo and Me) is attached to direct from a screenplay penned by TV screenwriter Ronan Blaney.
Sisters tells the tale of a Irish mother, feminist, activist and nun who lands at a school and changes thousands of deprived kids’ lives around with her skills as a teacher.
UK production company Cineman Films are shopping the film around at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Source: THR...
- 5/18/2011
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ifta nominated Irish director Terry Loane (Mickybo and Me) is readying his latest project 'This Beautiful Fantastic', a film based on Simon Aboud's novel of the same name. Produced by Constance Media's Kami Naghdi (Boogie Woogie) 'This Beautiful Fantastic' tells the tale of an obsessively tidy children's author who falls in love with an erratic inventor – the story will be told like a classic fairytale and will star Tom Wilkinson (Valkyrie, Shakespeare in Love), Christopher Eccleston (Amelia, The Others), MacKenzie Crook (Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End, City of Ember), Joanna Lumley (Corpse Bride, Ella Enchanted) and Carey Mulligan (An Education, Public Enemies).
- 11/17/2009
- IFTN
LONDON -- The Edinburgh International Film Festival said Wednesday this year's event will play host to 19 movies from North America including Sundance hit Super Size Me and Berlin documentary hit Ramones: End Of The Century. The lineup will also include six world premieres, organizers said, including Hamburg Cell, The Purifiers, Mickybo And Me, and My Summer Of Love. The festival, held annually in the Scottish capital, will open with Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries and is scheduled to close with Wong Kar- Wai's 2046, both of which screened during this year's Festival de Cannes. The lineup also boasts titles from countries as far afield as Armenia, Hong Kong, China and Iran. The festival runs August 18 through 29.
- 7/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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