CLIVE OWEN - Shadow Dancer Featurette

Pierce Brosnan - Pierce Brosnan's Son To Play Him As A Young Man In New Thriller 25 April 2013 (CONTACT MUSIC)

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."


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Pierce Brosnan plans to star alongside son Sean, 29, in IRA film Last Man Out SHERNA NOAH (INDEPENDENT)

Former Bond actor Pierce Brosnan plans to star alongside his son on the big screen, with the pair playing the same character.

The Mamma Mia! star said that he wanted to work with Sean, 29, on the film adaptation of the thriller The Ghosts Of Belfast, set in the aftermath of the Troubles.

Brosnan, 59, is expected to play a former IRA hitman in the movie, with his son taking the role of his character's younger self.

The actor told the Radio Times that the film, Last Man Out, is "about a man released from prison who has to deal with the venom of the past and Sean will play my character as a young man.

"So, if we can make it happen, I'd obviously love the chance of working with my boy."

He added: "Sean is doing well and he's creating a career for himself. And my son Dylan goes to film school in the summer and makes his own movies. You get apprehensive, regardless of what they do.

"It's part of being a parent. But I embrace their decisions as long as they get an education.

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Clive Owen, Pippa Middleton attend Shadow Dancer Premiere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFeJqwx4XE

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James Mason: The audacious Odd Man Out turns Britain’s biggest star into furniture in his own film BY MIKE D'ANGELO (AV CLUB)

In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key movie scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.

Imagine that you’re at the multiplex to see your favorite actor’s latest star vehicle. Doesn’t really matter who it is, but for the purposes of this exercise, let’s stipulate that it’s somebody very famous, a take-charge personality. Liam Neeson would be perfect, but it could be Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Daniel Day-Lewis, whoever. Anyway, he’s playing the leader of a gang or a criminal organization of some kind, and early scenes show him planning a big heist. Maybe he and his confederates have noble motives for the robbery. Not important. What is important is that you came to see Neeson (or Damon, or whoever) do his badass thing… but his character is shot during the holdup, badly wounded, abandoned by the rest of the gang. He’s bleeding so much, he can barely stay conscious. And while he’s physically present for much of what follows, it’s only in the way that, say, Tim Roth is physically present for the first half of Reservoir Dogs. The actual movie is about the various people who come in contact with him, virtually none of whom are played by similarly well-known actors.

Sound plausible? That’s the gist of Carol Reed’s 1947 classic Odd Man Out, which stars James Mason—the most popular British actor for four years running at the time of its release—as IRA leader Johnny McQueen. (His group is called “The Organization” throughout, but it’s Northern Ireland, so who are we kidding?) Mason gets shot 14 minutes into the two-hour picture, and is only intermittently awake and coherent from that point forward; the drama revolves entirely around random citizens, mostly embodied by stage actors Reed drafted from the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It’s a portrait of a community, exploring the ambivalence of people who sympathize with Mason’s cause, but not necessarily with his methods. In its finest, thorniest scene, a couple of middle-aged women gradually realize that the “accident victim” they’ve taken in won’t likely garner them awards for Samaritans Of The Year.

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Clive Owen: Trailer for Shadow Dancer (can't wait for this movie)

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EIFF 2012: Shadow Dancer James Marsh’s IRA thriller is an accomplished, slow-burning drama Source: The List (Issue 698) Date: 21 June 2012 Written by: Tom Dawson (LIST FILMS)

Like the late Alan Clarke’s remarkable television film Elephant, which depicted a series of senseless killings in Northern Ireland during the era of the so-called Troubles, director James Marsh’s Belfast-set drama shows sectarian murders being perpetrated in domestic suburban locations.

Andrea Riseborough excels in the lead role of Colette, a member of an IRA active service unit in 1993, who is arrested mid-mission by the British authorities in London. She is given a stark choice by Clive Owen’s MI5 officer Mac: either she returns to her mother (Brid Brennan) in West Belfast and secretly informs on the movements of her own IRA-combatant brothers (Aidan Gillen and Domhnall Gleeson), or she will be sent to an English jail, and thus separated from her young son.

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Video: Movie Trailer for 'Shadow Dancer' Starring Clive Owen (OPPOSING VIEWS)

Submitted by I Need My Fix on Jun 6, 2012

It’s been since the middle of February, just after its appearance at the Berlinale, that we had anything on James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer, a film I’m really looking forward to. Today we have a UK trailer (since the film opens there on 24th August.), thanks to FilmStage.  Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman (Andrea Riseborough, W.E.) is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

When a widowed mother (and active member of the IRA) is arrested in an aborted bomb plot, she falls into the hands of a British intelligence officer (Clive Owen). After the MI5 agent offers her an ultimatum, she must make hard choices to protect her son in this heart-wrenching thriller.

Shadow Dancer stars along with Owen and Riseborough, Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones), Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 and part 2 and son of Brendan) and Gillian Anderson.

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CLIVE OWEN UNVEILS IRA THRILLER AT BERLIN FEST (7 NEWS)

BERLIN (AFP) - Britain's Clive Owen plays an MI5 officer trying to protect an informant who is spying on her own IRA family in "Shadow Dancer", a taut thriller that premiered Sunday at the Berlin film festival.

Directed by Oscar-winning film-maker James Marsh and written by Tom Bradby, a journalist who covered the long-running "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the film revives the terror and paranoia of the era's sectarian violence.

"I think that if you're brought up in England and you're my age, it was something that was kind of on the news every day, the troubles in Ireland, and you kind of lived with it," said Owen, 47. "I remember going to Belfast for a while during the troubles. You forget how recently it was a rough place, it was a war zone really."

Owen's MI5 officer Mac interrogates single mother Collette, a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and IRA militant brothers, when she is captured for her part in an aborted bomb plot on the London Tube.

He presents her with a choice: go to prison or inform on her own family. She agrees to spy for the British but when a secret IRA operation goes awry, suspicion falls on her and she fears for her life.


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Sundance film festival hands prizes to 'dark and grim' films (Guardian)

Ben Child

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.



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Clive Owen: Shadow Dancer earns high praise at Sundance (Reuters)

By Christine Kearney

PARK CITY, Utah | Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:41am GMT

(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.


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Clive Owen: Sundance 2012: Clive Owen finds Troubles in 'Shadow Dancer' (EW)

by Jeff Labrecque

 

 

Casting Clive Owen as an MI5 operative in your movie is never a bad idea, but in Shadow Dancer, the taut British thriller about espionage and betrayal set during a spike of Irish/English violence in the early 1990s, Owen isn’t some gun-toting super-agent quick with a quip. Instead, he’s a middle-level field officer assigned with recruiting a captured Irish nationalist (W.E.’s Andrea Riseborough) — whose subway bomb failed to explode — to betray her family.

“I think it’s a great performance by Clive,” says director James Marsh, a Sundance fave after his heralded 2008 documentary, Man on Wire. “It’s something he doesn’t do enough of, in my view. It’s very understated and discreet what he’s doing in the film.

In Shadow Dancer, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Tuesday night, Owen’s Mac and Riseborough’s Colette find themselves wary partners as the political ground shifts beneath them. “I love the dilemmas of the main characters,” says Owen. “He’s somebody who spends a long time reeling her in, and then develops a conscience when he realizes that his superiors are willing to sacrifice her. I thought it was a great conflict for a character.”


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Clive Owen: New Poster and Pics of Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough in Shadow Dancer (I need my fix)

January 22nd, 2012 at 5:36 pm by Sheri

When a widowed mother (and active member of the IRA) is arrested in an aborted bomb plot, she falls into the hands of a British intelligence officer (Owen). After the MI5 agent offers her an ultimatum, she must make hard choices to protect her son in this heart-wrenching thriller.

The hotly anticipated film will screen at Sundance on Tuesday. (Of the reviewers currently in Park City, this film consistently comes up on their “must see” lists.)  It will also screen out of competition at the Berlinale next month. It stars along with Owen and Riseborough, Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones), Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 and part 2 and son of Brendan) and Gillian Anderson.

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Clive Owen: 'Shadow Dancer' will premier at Berlin Film Festival (RTE)

Directed by James Marsh (Project Nim, Man on Wire) and based on the novel of the same name by journalist Tom Bradby, Shadow Dancer tells the story of Colette McVeigh (Riseborough), a member of the IRA who is apprehended by MI5 after an aborted bombing in London.

She is given a choice: spend 25 years in jail and never see her son grow up or return to Belfast to spy on her brother, leader of the IRA in the city and "the last obstacle to a viable peace process".

Shadow Dancer, the new IRA thriller starring Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen and Domhnall Gleeson, is to receive its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month.


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