Check out this first-look image from Bring Them Down, an upcoming drama starring Christopher Abbot, Barry Keoghan and Colm Meaney. The film is entering the final stages of production in Ireland with Nora-Jane Noone (Wildfire, Brooklyn) Paul Ready (Motherland, The Terror), and Susan Lynch (Happy Valley, Unforgotten) rounding out the central cast.
Bring Them Down marks the debut feature film from Screen Star of Tomorrow writer and director Chris Andrews, following his award-winning short films Stalker (2019) and Fire (2015). The film is a European co-production, produced by Ivana MacKinnon (Wild Swim, UK) Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde (Tailored Films, Ireland) Jacob Swan Hyam (UK), and Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts (Frakas Productions, Belgium). Bring Them Down is financed by MUBI in conjunction with Screen Ireland, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the UK Global Screen Fund – financed by the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and administered by the BFI.
The story is as follows.
Michael (Christopher Abbott), the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray (Colm Meaney). Burdened by a terrible secret, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary (Paul Ready) and his son Jack (Barry Keoghan) escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past and leaving both families permanently altered.
More on the movie as it comes our way.
