The stage adaptation, directed by The Inbetweeners‘ Gordon Anderson, features Niall McNamee as Neil and Shane O’Regan as Bono, along with Niamh Bracken, Denis Conway, Farzana Dua Elahe, Donal Finn and Ciaran Dowd.Ĭhasing Bono runs from 6 December 2018 to 19 January 2019 at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE. The book also inspired the 2011 film Killing Bono.
Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ( The Likely Lads, Porridge, The Commitments), Chasing Bonois a lovingly fictionalised account of music journalist, author, broadcaster and U2 biographer Neil McCormick’s 2005 memoir I was Bono’s doppelganger. Danny becomes Neil’s shrink, probing the reasons for his succession of disastrous decisions. Danny sees an opportunity and kidnaps him. Dublin gangster Danny Machin wants a fair and balanced account written of his life whilst now-writer Neil is wondering where his went so wrong. Neil’s band never got off the ground.ġ987. Paul changed his name to ‘Bono’ and his band became U2. Friends Neil McCormick and Paul Hewson share the same ambition: to form bands and become global superstars. “One of the freshest and funniest rock & roll movies in a long time, Killing Bono is going to thrill not only the millions of U2 fans and music lovers, but everybody who has ever felt like an underdog,” XLrator Media’s Gordon said.1970s Dublin. The pic’s produced by Hamm, Ian Flooks, Mark Huffam, Piers Tempest and is co-produced by Isibeal Ballance. WME Global’s Alexis Garcia and Samantha Horley from SALT Company International brokered the deal. They also acquired Ironclad, John Carpenter’s The Ward, the martial arts film Bunraku and Knuckle, the documentary about rival bare knuckle boxers in Ireland that premiered at Sundance.
ARC Entertainment CEO Trevor Drinkwater and XLrator Media head Barry Gordon have now teamed on their fifth film acquisition. Pic’s an adaptation of Neil McCormick’s memoir Killing Bono: I Am Bono’s Doppelganger. They try to become rock stars in Dublin but are upstaged by four of their friends when they form the band U2 and become the biggest rock stars in the world. Written by The Commitments scribes Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais and Simon Maxwell, the film tells the story of young Irish rock musician Neil McCormick and his brother Ivan. The film’s directed by Nick Hamm, stars Ben Barnes, Krysten Ritter and Martin McCann and features the last performance by the late actor Pete Postlethwaite. They plan a VOD release in October and a theatrical release a month later. EXCLUSIVE: ARC Entertainment and XLrator Media have teamed to acquire North American distribution rights to the rock and roll comedy Killing Bono, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival.
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