Brendan Gleeson

HOLLYWOOD COMES to Wicklow Harbour this week as filming of the movie 'The Guard' starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle starts.  

HOLLYWOOD star Brendan Gleeson proved that life really does imitate art when the actor who once played a coastguard captain in the BBC series 'The Lifeboat' popped in to 'talk shop' with an RNLI crew.  

Many times when a film based in the world of a police department, FBI agency or other law enforcement organization comes along, there's the standard confrontation between an unconventional, off-the-leash lawman clashing with a by-the-book, oh so serious counterpart. While this has become a dishearteningly predictable element of crime based films, what really makes or breaks films like this is the casting. In this case, I might be willing to...  

International News: Irish-set drama also stars Liam Cunningham -- Brendan Gleeson is teaming up with Don Cheadle to star in helmer John Michael McDonagh's "The Guard." Pic follows an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a strait-laced FBI agent to take on an international drug smuggling gang in Ireland.  

Here's your blast of casting bites for the end of the week. First up, Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson will team as unlikely cop partners in The Guard. Film follows the confrontational small-town Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Gleeson), who likes hookers and isn't interested in drug runners, and FBI Agent Everett (Cheadle) in a tale of international coke smuggling. Sounds on the surface like an Irish reversal of Beverly Hills Cop, where the small-town local...  

Brendan Gleeson ("Harry Potter" series) stars as an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle (upcoming Iron Man 2 ), to take on an international drug-smuggling gang in John Michael McDonagh's The Guard , which has just started principal photography in the West of Ireland. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying...  

Gleeson plays an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle, to take on an international drug-smuggling gang. The cast also includes Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot ...  

Brendan Gleeson is teaming up with "Ned Kelly" scribe John Michael McDonagh to star in McDonagh's "The Guard," an Irish-set comedy thriller also featuring Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.  

The John Michael McDonagh film is currently in production in western Ireland.  

AWARD-WINNING actor Brendan Gleeson has warned a multi-million euro film he plans to shoot here next year will collapse if An Bord Snip Nua recommendations about the Irish Film Board are implemented.  

Who knows what kind of trouble they'll get into there.  

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Brendan Gleeson and American actor Don Cheadle are shooting a new comedy thriller in the West of Ireland.  

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