EXCLUSIVE: James McArdle and Ewen Bremner are attached to star in dark comedy Kill Paddy that is readying a shoot in Sunderland in northeast England in November.
Kill Paddy is being produced by Sunderland-based Carley Armstrong, a renowned UK script editor with credits including Adolescence, 28 Years Later and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning.
Co-producer is the film’s writer Ronan Glennane through his Bleak Midwinter Pictures.
Based on Glennane’s own experiences, the film is set in the 1980s in the aftermath of IRA hunger strikes and bombings. It follows a 15-year-old Irish boy who bribes his way into a struggling English football club, only to discover they want to kill him.
The producers are financing the film through private equity and the UK indie tax incentive. Talks with directors are underway.
“I want to make bold, genre-driven films in the North East that aren’t just bleak kitchen sink dramas,” said Armstrong. “Kill Paddy is a great start to this - funny, raw, and universal, but with a uniquely North East edge.”
McArdle was named a Screen UK-Ireland Star of Tomorrow in 2019.
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