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: Shadow Dancer Review (Damon Wise, The Guardian)

Sundance 2012: Shadow Dancer – review

Andrea Riseborough stars in a slow-burning but brilliant thriller about an IRA sympathiser forced to become an informant by MI5

Damon Wise

• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 January 2012 08.01 EST

Heart of darkness … Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough in Shadow Dancer

"The Troubles" is a euphemistic phrase for a still-raw piece of modern British history. Director James Marsh has decided not to excavate the specifics of the period for his second dramatic feature, in which a Northern Irish woman is forced to choose between her (presumably) IRA-supporting family and the British secret services trying to recruit her. Instead, it is 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.

Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as Colette McVeigh, whom we first meet as a child in the early 70s in a suburban Belfast family setting. Her father needs some cigarettes and asks his daughter to get them, but she sends her little brother instead. He returns lifeless and smothered in blood, caught in the crossfire of sectarian violence, which is where this taut and somewhat unforgiving drama gets its fire. We then flash forward 20 years, to where Colette, now a woman, is riding the London tube with a handbag that may or may not contain a bomb. The ensuing sequence, like the film, is long, tense and surprisingly wordless.

Colette is arrested and given an ultimatum by the authorities, in the guise of MI5 operative Mac (Clive Owen), who tells her that, unless she cooperates, her young son will be take from her. Colette, we learn, is from a known Republican family, and her brothers are lethally passionate about the cause. She herself, though, is at a crossroads, and Mac tries to exploit this crisis of confidence. The two begin an awkward but professional relationship, with Colette cast as the reluctant informer and Mac as an even more reluctant father figure, trying to push her into the role of mole in order to break the accompanying culture of violence.

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