04/04/2011

Hunger [+see also:
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film profile] star Michael Fassbender is all set to play one of the leads in Good Vibrations, based on the true story of Belfast punk impresario Terri Hooley.

Fassbender’s Hunger co-star Liam Cunningham is also in the cast. It is expected that Richard Dormer (Five Minutes of Heaven [+see also:
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Andrew Eaton (The Killer Inside Me [+see also:
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Husband and wife team Glen Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa (Cherrybomb) will direct from a script by Glenn Patterson and Colin Carberry. Principal photography is due to commence at Belfast locations in August.

Good Vibrations is one of a raft of films shooting in Northern Ireland this year, with the others including Terry George’s Whole Lotta Sole and Kieron J Walsh’s Jump (see news).