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U2 movie Killing Bono to be filmed in Belfast
Saturday, 26 December 2009
While Northern Ireland was in the grip of the Troubles in the late 1970s, something was happening south of the border which would have a global impact on music.
In 1976, a band was formed in Dublin after a young drummer posted on the school noticeboard looking for other musicians to join him. That band was U2.
Now a new movie is to reminisce about that time — from the unusual perspective of a rival band.
Filming will get under way in Northern Ireland next month on Killing Bono — a story about two Irish brothers chasing a dream of being rock stars.
Heading up the cast will be Brit actor Ben Barnes, star of The Chronicle of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Barnes will be joined by Robert Sheehan, who starred in the Irish movie Cherrybomb.
Killing Bono is based on Neil McCormick’s autobiography ‘I Was Bono’s Doppelganger’. Barnes play Neil McCormick while Sheehan plays his hapless brother Ivan. Together they set up a band in Dublin in the late 1970s. Sadly for them, however, so do their classmates and rivals — and they go on to become U2.
The movie begins shooting in Belfast on January 11. The script is written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who worked on The Commitments, while Nick Hamm will direct.
Castlewellan musician Joe Echo — who was recently nominated for a Grammy award for co-writing the Madonna track Celebration — will be providing the soundtrack for the film.
Meanwhile budding actors are being sought out to appear as extras in the movie. They will be expected to take part in three secret gig scenes to be staged in Belfast city centre. For information on how to be an extra, email killingbono@hotmail.com .
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We are filming in Belfast this Thursday (11th Feb) in Queens Student Union. We would like to invite you to come down in your best 80's gear at 3:00pm - Everyone aged 16 and over are welcome.
We will be filming a live gig in Madela Hall in Queens Student Union
We will be giving away prizes all from 3pm - 9pm.........prizes will include autographed cast photographs, local gig tickets, Topshop vouchers, along with top prizes including tickets to the Premiere of "Killing Bono", an ipod and Tickets to go see U2 perform in Europe, travel vouchers and spending money included!
We will even be giving away a film credit - so you can see your name on the big screen!!!
We will have comedians to compare the prize giving and a prize for Best dressed and Best hair/mk-up!
Costumes should include skinny jeans, Blazers, sequin tops, brightly coloured patterned shirts, denim shirts/skirts, waistcoats, etc.
No hair straightens.................crimped hair v
Posted by Ciara | 09.02.10, 22:07 GMT
Id love to take part,but my mobile internet wont let me send an email! I have some acting experience and wud love to be an extra! Xo
Posted by Melissa stenning | 01.01.10, 21:57 GMT
i remember watching U2 performing at the Dunbar Arms,which is now called Mint, way back around 78-79.
Posted by darklord999 | 26.12.09, 12:25 GMT
Doh! Doesn't the very fact that you are calling it a "U2 Movie" drive home the author's point that he has always been relegated to the underbelly of the shadows beneath Bono's success? Here the poor man writes a rollicking autobiography, is having a movie made out of it, and yet his name isn't used in the advertising of it because he is, after all, a nobody.
title of this article should rightly be "Neil McCormick movie to be filmed in Belfast."
How do you promote a movie that is not about U2 but a friend of Bono's, without saying it's a U2 movie? Is U2 paying for it?
This is going to be brilliant ~
Posted by AltRockAddict | 26.12.09, 00:39 GMT