The era of new wave and early punk will be revisited around the Cathedral Quarter this weekend when shooting on a new movie gets under way in Belfast.

Killing Bono, based on the Neil McCormick book I was Bono’s Doppleganger, will be filmed in and around the city centre over the next six weeks.

Set designers moved into Lower Donegall Street and Waring Street yesterday to recreate the look of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Donegall Street will be closed on Sunday while on Monday it will only be open to residents.

Filming is expected to take place over two days, from 9am to 9pm, completing in this part of town on Monday night. Killing Bono tells the story of two Irish brothers who fail to make it as musicians while their classmates go on to become U2.

It stars Ben Barnes, who played Prince Caspian in The Chronicles Of Narnia, Robert Sheehan, Pete Postlethwaite, Charlie Cox and Belfast’s Marty McCann.

Nick Hamm will direct and the film soundtrack will be provided by Castledawson Grammy-nominee Joe Echo (Ciaran Gribbin).