Hostage Keenan's story to hit cinemas

Film production company Parallax Independent Production has started shooting Blind Flight, the story of Irish hostage Brian Keenan and fellow-hostage John McCarthy, who were kidnapped and held prisoner in the Lebanon during the 1980s.

Screen Daily reports that the film is based on Keenan’s book An Evil Cradling and stars Ian Hart as Keenan and Linus Roache as McCarthy.