Film to imagine life as boy wonder Roy

From I Keano to Citizen Keane, Roy Keane is making the move from stage to screen.

Film to imagine life as boy wonder Roy

Or at least an 11-year-old version of Himself is set to appear in a short movie which has received the backing of the Irish Film Board.

Titled after Keane’s schoolboy football club, Rockmount is a 12/13-minute film which, in the words of the IFB, portrays Ireland’s new assistant manager as “a small but demonic 11-year-old in 1980s Cork [who] needs to get on the starting 11 for his football club and nothing is going to get in his way.”

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