Director Doug Liman flying high with new movie

Before he starts work in Limerick on a new series from George RR Martin, director Doug Liman is bringing the tale of super smuggler Barry Seal to the big screen, writes Esther McCarthy.

For a man who smuggled guns for the CIA and brought drugs into the US for the notorious Medellin cartel, Barry Seal was, by all accounts, a very nice fellow.

When director Doug Liman was researching for a new movie about Seal, everyone he met had only warm words to say of him — even the pilot whose plane he had stolen.