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.
I would like to thank the Irish Film Board, and the BFI, for their continuing support for filmmaking that seeks to escape from the tiresome, rarefied confines of Dublin 4. Up the West!'
The film which is being co-financed by Irish film Board and BFI film fund is set for release in 2013.
