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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy victor Chris O’Dowd (State Of The Union), Oscar victor Jane Fonda (Book Club), Oscar nominee Ciarán Hinds (Belfast), Oscar nominee John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie) and BAFTA victor Tom Hollander (Feud) will lead governmental thriller Ceasefire, group against nan backdrop of nan Northern Ireland bid process.
Oscar victor Terry George, head of Hotel Rwanda and screenwriter of Irish crime-drama In The Name Of The Father, has scripted and will nonstop nan movie, which is owed to sprout successful Ireland later this year. Bankside is launching world income astatine nan upcoming Cannes market.
Ceasefire is based connected nan existent communicative of Niall O’Dowd, who is described by producers arsenic “the courageous Irish-American journalist who gambles everything to agent a concealed backchannel betwixt nan IRA (Irish Republican Army) and a wary Clinton administration…As bombings, governmental betrayal, and mistrust adjacent in, he risks his life to unafraid a lasting ceasefire betwixt nan deadliest enemies.”
Niall O’Dowd, nan laminitis of nan Irish Voice newspaper, is known for playing a behind-the-scenes domiciled successful Northern Ireland’s Good Friday bid statement and went connected to create ties to nan Clinton family. He served successful Hillary Clinton’s Finance Committee for her 2008 statesmanlike run.
Chris O’Dowd will play Niall O’Dowd. Fonda will play Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, who was Bill Clinton’s typical successful Dublin, and was nan sister of John, Robert and Ted Kennedy. Reilly will play Congressman Bruce Morrison. Hinds will play CEO Bill Flynn.
The movie, which immoderate years agone was being positioned arsenic a TV series, will beryllium produced by Trevor Birney for Fine Point Films (Kneecap) and Patrick O’Neill for Wildcard (Kneecap). Bankside Films is handling worldwide income and will beryllium introducing nan movie to buyers successful Cannes.
Terry George, whose past movie was 2016 Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac pic The Promise, said: “Ceasefire is astir nan fragile, dangerous, often invisible activity required to extremity conflict. It’s astir nan belief that speech tin triumph complete violence. It’s a connection and a communicative that is dramatic, moving and vital. I americium honoured to show it.”
Trevor Birney and Patrick O’Neill commented: “The warfare successful Northern Ireland was an intractable conflict. After 25-years, immoderate dream for an extremity to nan unit had each but gone. The communicative down nan process that led to bid is thrilling and affectional and a captious modern reminder that individuals – not governments – tin bring astir alteration that tin prevention nan lives of innocents caught up successful a warfare they didn’t want. Terry is 1 of Ireland’s top filmmakers and he has assembled an astonishing formed for nan film. We are beyond excited to beryllium going into accumulation connected Ceasefire later this year.”
Stephen Kelliher of Bankside Films added: “We are delighted to beryllium moving pinch Terry George and his unthinkable formed to bring this compelling communicative to audiences astir nan world. It’s a communicative which has unthinkable relevance successful nan world coming whilst being a thrilling communicative of 1 man’s tremendous individual endeavour to bring astir bid successful a world wherever conflict has go ingrained.”
