Big budget film productions could be on way back to Ireland

THE news that two major films may begin production here in the near future has again focused an international gaze on Ireland’s film industry and the possibility of big-budget blockbusters returning to these shores once more.

Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg has expressed an interest in reforming his successful partnership with triple best actor winner Daniel Day Lewis on a film about Daniel O’Connell. Discussions on the project, provisionally entitled The Liberator, are well extended according to Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan.

“Nothing is certain, but the success of Lincoln makes a stronger case as it would have an international appeal given O’Connell’s role in the anti-slavery campaign as well as in both Jewish and Catholic emancipations,” said Mr Deenihan.