The 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant has its first main sale, and for arguably the wildest characteristic within the lineup.
“Kneecap,” the raucous comedy biopic in regards to the Irish rap group and co-starring Michael Fassbender, has been picked up Sony Footage Classics, which has acquired all rights to the title for North America, Latin America, Japanese Europe, Turkey and the Center East.
The movie, the debut characteristic of director Wealthy Peppiatt and the primary Irish-language characteristic to play Sundance, premiered on Thursday night time on the Prospector Sq. Theater to crucial acclaim, after which the band performed a set on the after-party at The Cabin on Foremost Road. The three-piece additionally introduced alongside an armoured Northern Irish police van for a stunt forward of the primary screening (in 2022, they unveiled a controversial mural of an analogous van on fireplace in Eire).
“Kneecap” follows the emergence of the riotous rap trio in post-Troubles Belfast, setting the stage for the Irish language’s resurgence in opposition to the institution. Self-proclaimed “low life scum” Liam Óg and Naoise, together with faculty trainer JJ, turn into a political image and the defiant voice of Eire’s stressed youth. As they wrestle to make their mark on the world and household and relationship pressures threaten to tug the plug on their desires, the trio weave a story that transcends music. The movie is described as “a true-life fable about man’s intrinsic urge for id, the attract of medication and a ardour for all times” and a “thrilling trip pulsating with hip-hop beats.”
Naoise Ó Cairealláin aka Móglaí Bap, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh aka Mo Chara and JJ Ó Dochartaigh aka Dj Provaí all taking part in themselves within the movie, alongside co-stars Fassbender, Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Finest and Simone Kirby.
“Kneecap” was written and directed by Peppiatt from a narrative by Peppiatt, Ó Cairealláin, Óg Ó Hannaidh and Ó Dochartaigh. It was produced by Trevor Birney and Jack Tarling.
The movie was financed by the BFI, awarding Nationwide Lottery funding; Fís Éireann/Display screen Eire; Coimisiún na Meán; TG4 and Northern Eire Display screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund and Display screen Fund. It’s introduced in affiliation with Nice Level Media, Naughty Step, DMC Movie and is a Positive Level Movies, Mom Tongues Movies and Curzon manufacturing in in co-production with Wildcard.
AC Impartial and Charades dealt with the sale on behalf of the filmmakers. U.Okay./Eire rights have already been offered to Curzon and Wildcard.
Sony Footage Classics, which purchased “Kneecap” simply previous to its premiere, took an analogous method at Sundance in 2012 when it swooped on the Oscar-winning documentary “Trying to find Sugarman.”
