Remember when U2 wasn’t selling iPods, Blackberrys, pretending to save the planet and hiding their earnings in offshore accounts? Those early, much more glorious days will be the subject of a new film, “Killing Bono” based on the memoir by Neil McCormick. In the book, McCormick tells the story of U2’s rise to stardom from the sidelines. He was a schoolmate and friend of Bono, who struggled to nearly a decade to match the success of U2 and failed miserably.
The film is set to go in front of cameras on January 11th, in Belfast with Nick Hamm (“Godsend,” “The Hole”) directing with Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (“The Bank Job,” “Across The Universe”) penning the script. The most well known member of the cast is Ben Barnes (who played Prince Caspian in “The Chronicles Of Narnia” films) who will be taking on the lead role of Neil McCormick. “Breaking Bad”‘s Krysten Ritter and Robert Sheehan (“Cherrybomb”), Charlie Cox and Jason Byrne round out the cast thus far.
It remains to be seen what U2’s involvement with the film will be, if any, or if the producers will be able to snag the rights to the music. But given that Bono wrote the forward to the book, we wouldn’t be surprised if he wets his toes in this project somewhere and let’s the producers have the songs for a reduced rate. And if you’ve been to the theater in the last month, you may have heard U2’s two awful songs they wrote for “Brothers.” We’re really hoping we don’t see those guys anywhere near the Oscars for that tripe.
just wanted to jump in on this so i'll get email alerts for the comments from the U2 holy defenders.
i'm still getting them from that "Brothers" post back in November and they've proven to be endlessly entertaining.
Sadly Nick Hamm is a lousy director with a huge ego