Exclusive: The star of last weekend’s Us release Jimmy’s Hall from Ken Loach has come aboard Kpi Entertainment and Deadpan Pictures’ Ireland-set contemporary generational drama.
Evzen Kolar and Deborah Kolar of La-based Kpi Entertainment and Paul Donovan of Dublin’s Deadpan Pictures have targeted a late 2015/early 2016 start outside Dublin and in Liverpool on the sub-€4m UK-Ireland co-production.
Andrew Baird will direct Never Walk Alone from Christian O’Reilly’s screenplay that centres on three generations of men in an Irish community.
Ward (pictured in Jimmy’s Hall) will play Eamon, a man haunted by his childhood decision not to pursue trials with Liverpool Fc who pressures his talented teenage son into taking a similar opportunity.
The producers are scouting a name actor to play the estranged grandfather, whose timely return to the fold sparks a plan. Kpi and Deadpan are also reviewing potential sales agents.
Ward’s credits include Blood Cells and The...
Evzen Kolar and Deborah Kolar of La-based Kpi Entertainment and Paul Donovan of Dublin’s Deadpan Pictures have targeted a late 2015/early 2016 start outside Dublin and in Liverpool on the sub-€4m UK-Ireland co-production.
Andrew Baird will direct Never Walk Alone from Christian O’Reilly’s screenplay that centres on three generations of men in an Irish community.
Ward (pictured in Jimmy’s Hall) will play Eamon, a man haunted by his childhood decision not to pursue trials with Liverpool Fc who pressures his talented teenage son into taking a similar opportunity.
The producers are scouting a name actor to play the estranged grandfather, whose timely return to the fold sparks a plan. Kpi and Deadpan are also reviewing potential sales agents.
Ward’s credits include Blood Cells and The...
- 7/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Dead Long Enough
Stars: Michael Sheen, Jason Hughes, Angeline Ball, Mercedes Grower, Douglas Henshall | Written by James Hawes and Tom Collins | Directed by Tom Collins
Despite being made in 2005, Irish/Welsh comedy-drama Dead Long Enough has only just been brought to DVD, most likely due to its star Michael Sheen gaining a much larger fanbase since doing career building films like The Queen, Frost/Nixon and, er, The Twilight Saga: New Moon. That said, if a film gets a DVD release five years after it was made only because of belated star power, what does that say about it?
The film, based on James Hawes’s novel, revolves around two estranged Welsh brothers, Harry (Sheen) and Ben (Jason Hughes), who are polar opposites – Harry is a loud, womanising TV personality, Ben a grounded, dull lawyer – who are brought together by Harry’s ill-advised and paparazzi-haunted wedding. When Ben’s girlfriend proposes to him,...
Stars: Michael Sheen, Jason Hughes, Angeline Ball, Mercedes Grower, Douglas Henshall | Written by James Hawes and Tom Collins | Directed by Tom Collins
Despite being made in 2005, Irish/Welsh comedy-drama Dead Long Enough has only just been brought to DVD, most likely due to its star Michael Sheen gaining a much larger fanbase since doing career building films like The Queen, Frost/Nixon and, er, The Twilight Saga: New Moon. That said, if a film gets a DVD release five years after it was made only because of belated star power, what does that say about it?
The film, based on James Hawes’s novel, revolves around two estranged Welsh brothers, Harry (Sheen) and Ben (Jason Hughes), who are polar opposites – Harry is a loud, womanising TV personality, Ben a grounded, dull lawyer – who are brought together by Harry’s ill-advised and paparazzi-haunted wedding. When Ben’s girlfriend proposes to him,...
- 9/11/2010
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
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