Paul Fraser on his Saipan film: 'Keane felt he got the Irish team to the World Cup'
Paul Fraser, screenwriter for the Saipan film, will attend the Catalyst Film Festival in Limerick.
He has collaborated closely with top British filmmaker Shane Meadows and directed a family drama filmed in Cobh. But Paul Fraser’s forthcoming screenplay aims to get to the heart of one of the biggest talking points in Irish sporting history.
Saipan - due to be released later this year - tells the story of the remarkable falling out between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy on the eve of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup campaign. When Irish production company Wild Atlantic Pictures first planned to bring the film - starring Cork actor Éanna Hardwicke as Keane and Steve Coogan as McCarthy - to the screen, they approached Fraser.
