The Trial Of Ian Bailey: Jim Sheridan on his new courtroom drama  

Re-Creation: The Trial of Ian Bailey is a film that gathers 12 fictional jurors to examine the real case files in the murder of Toscan Du Plantier, writes Esther McCarthy 

Colm Meaney as Ian Bailey in Re-Creation: The Trial Of Ian Bailey.

Jim Sheridan returns to the case of a West Cork murder that has baffled the world with Re-Creation: The Trail of Ian Bailey. The fictional dramatisation follows what might have happened in a jury room should a trial have gone ahead in the shocking West Cork murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier.

Sheridan and his co-director David Merriman have assembled a cast including Aidan Gillen, John Connors and Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) for this new take on a highly controversial case. The film invites audiences into a jury room where 12 fictional jurors are gathered to examine the real case files in the murder of Toscan Du Plantier in West Cork in 1996. Initially, just one juror believes that Bailey is not guilty in a film that examines evidence, bias, mistruths and human nature.