Here’s a pic of the character I’m playing in the upcoming crime short Swerve, directed by Ross Costigan. The Mastermind is a smug, over dramatic strategist trying to pull the strings of all the players in the brutal game the movie centres around. It was a lot of fun to play and I got to drive a jeep. Happy out.
The film will premiere later this year. For more check out the Swerve page on Facebook.
Here’s the first character posters for a short crime movie I wrote. It’s called Swerve and it’s essentially like Streets Of Rage but myriad twists, turns and chunks of violence. And humour. And a bit with a dog.
We filmed it last year and we’re hoping to premiere it at the end of this year. The first batch of character posters come from the director himself, Ross Costigan. These are the trio of lead characters: Teddy Boy, The Gent and Vaughan. Of a bad bunch, these are probably the worst.
I’ve been writing a short film called Swerve which will be directed by Ross Costigan for Mycrofilms later this year.
Ross and myself have been working on it for quite a while now and we’re currently prepping to bring it in front of the cameras this April. And to mark the commencement of pre-production, Ross took some nice photos of the film’s three leads who he has just revealed over on his blog. The trio of fine upstanding thesps who will be engaging in some springtime ultra violence are David Thompson (The Gent), Eddie Murphy (Teddy Boy) and John Doran (Vaughan). If you think they look mean and moody here, they’re only wearing their own clothes so wait until we get them into the actual costumes.
The story is about a swarm of competing criminals trying to track down a mysterious bag. It will hopefully be a very dark, violent and funny short. Our ‘what if’ for Swerve is if the video game Streets Of Rage was adapted into a short movie written by Martin McDonagh and directed by Robert Rodriguez. That’s doing myself and Ross an awful amount of favours though but fuck it, no harm in aiming high! If we can make something that’s even half as insane as that sounds, then we’re doing alright. We’ve a great crew on board and Ross is currently assembling a seriously stacked thirty strong cast of characters.
Swerve is the third short film from Mycrofilms and keeps our genre hopping escapades intact following on from romantic comedy Hot Water Bottle and family drama Baby Love, both of which premiered in 2012. Swerve is going to be our biggest, baddest and bloodiest yet. I’ll keep the updates coming in the run up to the shoot and if you like, you can read them.
There’s only one more day to get a look at Ross Costigan’s Coming Soon exhibition in The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny.
Here’s myself and Ken McGuire in the fake poster for Sketch Five-O proving that everything you hear about men in uniform isn’t exactly true. Although, personally, I’d watch anything approved by Danny Glover.
If you don’t get to see the exhibition in person, check out the images over here.
Coming Soon is the first exhibition of photography from Ross Costigan. And Ross Costigan is the guy who puts the Ross Costigan in Ross Costigan Photography.
I’ve worked with Ross on more projects than I’d care to mention since I was 17. I’m still working on projects with him. He’s an all rounder and a top man. I had the pleasure of being one of the subjects for Coming Soon, which as you may have guessed, is an exhibition of fake movie posters. Myself and Ken McGuire got to go Bad Boys for our poster which proves without doubt that some men do not look good in uniform. Just me. Ken looks great. (That’s me in the N above. I have Garda hair apparently)
It opened in the Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny last Thursday night and the whole exhibition runs until January 13th. If you get a chance to see it, you really should. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen exhibited in the Watergate Theatre and it’s a really unique exhibition. Also, there may be some popcorn left. Get your sneak peek while you still can!
