Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke become McCarthy and Keane in first Saipan film image

The actors transform into the leading protagonists in the World Cup 2002 drama that transfixed the nation as gets the silver screen treatment with comedy due for release summer 2025 

BLOWING OFF SOME STEAM?: Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke as Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in the upcoming film Saipan. Pic: Aidan Monaghan

More than 22 years may have passed but many images from the Saipan controversy remain etched into the Irish national conscience. Now we have the Hollywood version to add to the pile. 

A first glimpse of Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke as Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane was offered on Wednesday as a still from the upcoming comedy film Saipan was released.