OUR STARS IN TRUE LIFE ROLES
Fact-based movies are hit
Watergate whistelblower Mark Felt Liam Neeson Saoirse Ronan will play Mary Queen of Scots he will play one of two soldiers tasked with assassinating topranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, in the movie called HHHH.
It’s one of two new films about the Anthropoid operation.
SAOIRSE RONAN will play Mary Queen of Scots in a period movie set to be shot later this year.
The 22-year-old has been involved in the longawaited
Tom Vaughan-lawlor
Messrs Spall and Meaney project for four years and it will be produced by top film company Working Title.
Her story is a dramatic one of sex, lies, intrigue, murder and betrayal.
Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland while still a baby, her first husband was murdered, and she was eventually imprisoned and executed at the behest of England’s Elizabeth I. DOMHNALL GLEESON and Hollywood royalty Tom Cruise recently completed working together on another extraordinary real adventure.
American Made tells the true story of pilot Barry Seal who turned to drugs smuggling in Central America before being recruited by the US government to provide intelligence.
His role led to involvement with the notorious Medellin cartel, and ultimately the embarrassment of Ronald Reagan.
Cruise will play Seal and Gleeson will portray his CIA handler, Monty Schafer in the movie, which is set to be released later this year. TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR will play the leader of an IRA gang which orchestrated the 1983 Maze prison breakout. Simply called Maze, the movie, released later this year, will revisit what was the largestever breakout from a prison in the UK. The movie, which also stars Rebellion’s BARRY WARD, was shot in Cork, with the city’s old jail doubling for the Co Antrim site. COLM MEANEY will also portray former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin Mcguinness in The Journey. The film is a fictional drama about the friendship that developed between Mcguinness and Ian Paisley during the Northern Ireland peace process. British actor Timothy Spall
plays Paisley. Domhnall Gleeson Jack Reynor
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