Greengrass on Omagh
by Annika Pham
- The director of Bloody Sunday has written a screenplay on the 1998 tragedy when 29 people died in a bomb in Northern Ireland. Direction is by Pete Travis and filming starts in December in Dublin
The director of award winning film, Bloody Sunday [+see also:
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Twenty nine people died in the attack on August 15, 1998, and there were hundreds of injuries. The film will deal with the families’ struggle for justice and the actor, Gerard McSorley will play the father of one of the victims. Omagh will be directed by Pete Travis (Cold Feet), who will start filming in Dublin on December 1st.
The project is produced by Element Films’ Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, with Arthur Lapping (founder of Hell’s Kitchen with Jim Sheridan) acting as executive producer.
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