Posted by Colm Meaney and Aidan Gillen have joined Vicky Krieps in the cast of six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan‘s upcoming true crime drama “Re-creation.”
Meaney has appeared in dozens of high-profile films and series over the past forty-plus years but is best known as Star Trek’s Chief Miles O’Brien in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Gillen boasts a similarly impressive resume, with his most memorable turns coming in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and “The Wire.”
Sheridan said of the newly-announced castings,
“I am delighted to have two icons of Irish cinema join the cast.”
“Re-creation” co-writer and co-director David Merriman added, “Colm and Aidan both have starred in some of my favorite films and shows. As artists, they both elevate any project, and we are so grateful to have them onboard.”
“Re-creation” is produced by Tina O’Reilly of
Hell’s Kitchen in Ireland and Fabrizio Maltese of Luxembourg’s Joli Rideau Media with backing from Screen Ireland, Film Fund Luxembourg, Eurimages and the Doha Film Institute. Sheridan is the executive producer. Documentary segments are being shot in Ireland, France, and the U.S., while the fictional sequences will be filmed on a sound stage in Luxembourg.
Latido Films is handling international sales and shopping the film to interested distributors at this year’s Marché du Film. “Re-creation” will be ready for distribution by Q3 of this year.
World Premier at Tribeca Film Festival June 8th
Irish Premier at Galway Film Fleadh July 8th
What the film instead supplies is a skillful blend of “12 Angry Men” and the exciting beats of a true-crime podcast, ultimately painting a rich portrait of all shades of humanity:our convictions, prejudices, and in our best moments, deep reserves of logic and compassion.
In arguing — sometimes civilly, sometimes not — the details of the case,
the 12 men and women in the room reflect something deeply truthful about all of us, as individuals and as a society.
Pete Hammond, Deadline
“I think Lumet would be the first one applauding, as well as Reginald Rose, who wrote 12 Angry Men first as a live TV play and then the film. In a time where we are quick to label and to come to conclusions, Re-Creation, like 12 Angry Men, asks us to slow down and consider an alternative possibility.
With an exceptional cast, particularly Krieps and John Connors, as well as brief interludes with Colm Meaney as Ian Bailey, you can only hope that Jim Sheridan himself finally has closure on the case that has haunted him for so long.”
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter
“In his new film, premiering at Tribeca, the six-time Oscar-nominated Irish director blurs the line between fiction and justice in a courtroom drama born from a lifelong obsession.
The bulk of Re-creation unfolds in a single jury room, in homage to 12 Angry Men. The directors borrowed the claustrophobic intensity of Sidney Lumet’s 1957 classic and fused it with the ambiguity of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall to reflect skepticism toward both the judicial process and the media machine surrounding it.”
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