Pierce Brosnan's son Sean is to play the former Bond star as a young man in a new movie about a former Irish Republican Army hitman trying to make good after serving 20 years in the notorious Long Kesh prison.
The Brosnans are planning to shoot actionthriller Last Man Out, based on a script by comedian-turned-U.S. chat show host Craig Ferguson, in Belfast, Northern Ireland later this year (13). Pierce explains, "It's about the last man out of Long Kesh and the ghosts that he lives with and flashbacks to his younger life and me as a young man, so I was like, 'Sean, why not?' "I'd known Craig, did his show and we live in the same neighbourhood and he came to me with this and I said, 'Yeah, let's have a crack at it.' Terry Loane is a Belfast director who I've wanted to work with. It's a little film." READ MOREhttp://www.contactmusic.com/news/pierce-brosnan-s-son-to-play-him-as-a-young-man-in-new-thriller_3627993
Outside the competition, there was British success for Oscar-winning UK film-maker James Marsh, whose film Shadow Dancer was well-received. It tells the story of an Irish mother from an IRA-supporting family who is encouraged to become an informant by MI5. Starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough, it was described by Wise as a "film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs".
Sundance, which was founded as the Utah/US film festival in Salt Lake City in August 1978 and took on its present moniker in 1991 following several years of Redford's involvement and sponsorship, has become known as the premier US event for independent film-making. Recent years have seen films such as An Education, Precious and Little Miss Sunshine, all of which screened at the festival, go on to win major awards.
(Reuters) - A tense thriller about a mother deeply entrenched in the IRA and
forced to choose between the organization and the family she loves has earned
high praise among the foreign films at this week's Sundance Film
festival.
"Shadow Dancer," set against a backdrop of a Northern Ireland in transition, gave the
festival a lift after it premiered earlier this week following some of the
higher-profile U.S. fiction films that have failed to live up to pre-festival
hype.
The film stars Andrea Riseborough as a Belfast mother who, along with two of
her brothers, is active in the Irish Republican Army when she gets offered a
deal by an British intelligence officer (Clive Owen) to turn against her
colleagues and become an informant or else go to prison.
James Marsh, who made Oscar-winning documentary "Man On Wire," directed
"Shadow Dancer" which 1990s Northern Ireland TV correspondent Tom Bradby adapted
from his book of the same name. Marsh said he was initially reluctant to work on
the movie but ultimately won over by the idea of telling a more personal story
of the conflict.
"In Britain you have this sort of exhausted sense of the Northern Irish
troubles," he told Reuters. "But I quickly got caught up in the premise of the
story where you take a young single mother and you go and force her to spy on
her own family. It's an impossible bargain."
The moral quandary of Riseborough's character -- choosing between loved ones
and dealing with the guilt of betrayal -- are themes most audiences could relate
to, said Marsh.
