Black 47 by Lance Daly begins principal photography
Lance Daly’s Irish/Luxembourg co-production, Black ’47 began principal photography in Luxembourg today, November 28. Starring Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent and Hugo Weaving alongside an all-star Irish cast including Stephen Rea, Sarah Greene and Moe Dunford.
It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his estranged family. He’s seen more than his share of horrors, but nothing prepares him for the famine’s hopeless destruction of his homeland that has brutalised his people and where there seems to be no law and order. He discovers his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal hand of the English.
With little else to live for, he sets a destructive path to avenge his family. Hannah, an ageing British soldier and famed tracker of deserters, is sent to stop Feeney before he can further stoke the fires of revolution. But Hannah and Feeney are old army comrades, forged by their time fighting together. Personal bonds and shifting allegiances cause both men to question their motives, as they are tested to the limit by the hellish landscape of ‘The Great Hunger’.
Black ‘47 is produced by Macdara Kelleher whose credits include Strangerland starring Nicole Kidman, Lance Daly’s Kisses, What If starring Daniel Radcliffe, Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal, and Rebecca Daly's The Other Side of Sleep. He is co-founder of Dublin-based Fastnet Films with Lance Daly and Morgan Bushe. Also producing are Tim O’Hair whose producing credits include Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram for the King with Tom Hanks, and as executive producer, Paul Haggis’s Third Person with Liam Neeson; Arcadiy Golubovich, also a producer on A Hologram for the King, executive producer of Sarik Andreasyan’s American Heist with Hayden Christensen and Adrian Brody, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes with Andrew Garfield and Third Person; and Jonathan Loughran, producer of Holidays, associate producer of What If. Jani Thilges of Samsa Films (Irina Palm) serves as co-producer. Script: PJ Dillon, Pierce Ryan with additional material by Eugene O'Brien and Lance Daly.
Black ‘47 is financed by Primemeridian Entertainment, the Irish Film Board, the Luxembourg Film Fund, Wildcard Distribution, BAI, TV3, Eurimages, Umedia, Samsa Films and Fastnet Films. CAA is handling the North American sale.