Brendan Gleeson Gets Threatened For Being Too Nice In Calvary Trailer

CINEMA BLEND
Author: Nick Venable | published: December 12, 2013 8:44am PST



With his second film, director John Michael McDonagh has quite a task in trying to create something that was half as memorable as his first: 2011’s howlingly funny comedy The Guard. And it probably didn’t help that his brother, Martin, followed up In Bruges with last year’s excellent ensemble crime comedy, Seven Psychopaths. Judging from the above trailer, though, McDonagh is headed in a more introspective direction with the dark comedy Calvary, and I can’t wait to be a part of its flock.

For Calvary, Brendan Gleeson reteams with the director to play Father James Lavelle, a priest with nothing but inspiration and hope to pass to his overly troubled parishioners without appearing sanctimonious. Trouble comes to him in the oddest of ways when someone walks into the other side of the confession window and threatens to murder him for being too kind to people, giving him a week to get his affairs in line. But in order to try and get his life spared, Father Lavelle must enter the lives of his troubled churchgoers to discover their moral centers in trying to figure out the identity of his soon-to-be murderer.

Gleeson could win over audiences in a film all on his own, but he’s got a stellar cast of mostly Irish actors whose characters make the priest’s life all the more complicated. Chris O’Dowd (Thor: The Dark World) plays an oafish butcher, while Aidan Gillen (The Wire) plays a much more intense hospital worker. The middle ground is filled out by characters played by Dylan Moran (Black Books), Domnhall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), David Wilmot (Ripper Street), Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes), Marie-Josée Croze (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Isaach De Bankolé (24).

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Brendan Gleeson back home to film new comedy (HERALD IE.)

Wednesday October 17 2012

A LITTLE piece of Hollywood came to Rush this week as award-winning actor Brendan Gleeson began filming on his new movie Calgary.

The Harry Potter star is out in the north Dublin seaside town as he begins work on the much-anticipated follow on to The Guard.

Locals were gobsmacked to see the famous actor strolling around the tight-knit town as he immersed himself in filming at Harbour Park, with the project expected to last for around six weeks.

Written and directed by the same director, namely John Michael McDonagh, it's described as a black comedy drama and began filming in Sligo last month before moving to Dublin. And there's some serious heavy hitters joining Gleeson on the movie including Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen and Isaach de Bankole.

It sees the former teacher taking on the role of a priest who's intent on making the world a better place. But he's left shocked by the "spiteful inhabitants" in his small town, culminating in him being threatened.


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Production starts on new Brendan Gleeson movie Calvary (ENTERTAINMENT IE.)

 Production has started on 'Calvary' John Michael McDonaghs follow up to the box office hit 'The Guard'. Filming has currently got under way in Sligo for the upcoming movie and will see McDonagh team up again with Brendan Gleeson.

Gleeson will play an entirely different character to 'The Guards' drunk and corrupt cop Gerry Boyle in the role of priest Father James Lavelle a man with good intentions who wishes to make the world a better place but is continually shocked and saddened by the inhabitants of the small town he lives in. life soon turns a dark corner for him when he is threatened in confession.

The dark comedy will star Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes, Eden Lake), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, Shadow Dancer), Dylan Moran (Run Fat Boy Run, Shaun of the Dead), Marie Josée Crozé and Isaach De Bankolé . Other well known irish actors to grace our screens will include Domhnall Gleeson Pat Shortt and David Wilmot.

Speaking about film McDonagh said 'It is with great excitement, bordering on tumescence, that I am looking forward to collaborating once more with Ireland's greatest actor, Brendan Gleeson, and working with the finest ensemble cast ever assembled in the history of Irish cinema.

Brendan Gleeson: O’Dowd, Gillen & Wilmot Join McDonagh’s ‘Calvary’ (IRISH FILM AND TELEVISION NETWORK)

‘The Guard’ writer/director John Michael McDonagh has signed Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids), Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, Love/Hate), Isaach De Bankolé (24) and David Wilmot (The Guard) to join Brendan Gleeson in his latest project 'Calvary'.

‘Calvary’ is a dark comedy that follows good priest Father James Lavelle – the opposite to Gleeson's character in ‘The Guard’ – who is tormented by various members of his Sligo parish. ‘The Guard’ picked up four Irish Film & Television Awards at the recent ceremony in Dublin, including Best Film, with McDonagh also named the Irish Film Board Rising Star.


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