Acclaimed film director Jim Sheridan plans to make a major television drama series which would hammer a nail into the coffin of the conflict in Northern Ireland, he revealed today.
The Dubliner, best known for his Oscar-winning movie My Left Foot, said he is talking with renowned Belfast film director and screenwriter Terry George about working together on the script.
The pair have teamed up before on widely-lauded films about the conflict including In The Name Of The Father, The Boxer - both starring Daniel Day-Lewis - and Some Mother's Son.
Sheridan said it was an ambition of his to mark an end to The Troubles with a television series that would help Ireland and the wider world understand what led to the decades of murder and violence.
``Everybody goes 'Don't make a movie about the North' - I say only make a movie about the North,'' he said.
``I think there's a need for a (television) series to put a coffin nail on the way you think about what the North became.
``If we could get six inch nails and hammer them into the coffin so that particular vampire never came out again, we would be doing a service.''
The six-time Academy Award nominee said he had been talking ``quite a bit'' with George, who directed the critically-acclaimed Hotel Rwanda, about a drama series dealing with how the conflict erupted.
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