Jim Sheridan set to unveil gritty tale of his childhood in Dublin

The six times Oscar nominee will do a Steven Spielberg on it promising to “tell it all” in his own Fablemans tale about 1940s Ireland.

Jim Sheridan is gearing up for his most personal project to date – a biopic about his life growing up in inner city Dublin.

The six times Oscar nominee will do a Steven Spielberg on it promising to “tell it all” in his own Fablemans tale about 1940s Ireland.

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Jim, 74, has spent two decades working on the story and filming on North Star is due to start in months.

The acclaimed filmmaker told the Sunday Mirror: “It’s taken me 20 years to write this so it is my most personal project yet.

“It’s hopefully going to start in late summer and we are currently casting it.

The gritty tale about his childhood introduces his mother Anna, who ran a lodging house, and his dad Peter Sheridan Snr who was a railway clerk with CIE Trains.

It spans seven decades following his journey from his early years growing up in Seville Place and Sheriff Street, to his Oscar nominations in Hollywood in the 1990s.

My Left Foot director Jim revealed: “It’s like the name the North Star hotel in Amien Street.

“My mother used to work there… so it’s about me and my mother in the lodging house and my father, and my brother Frankie who died.

“But this is very, very important to me, so I will tell it all.”