Watch: Trailer for Saipan film has dropped and they might just have pulled it off with Roy Keane

The tale of the infamous row between Keane and Mick McCarthy may well be the story most often told. But could this be a fresh spin?

STICK IT: Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke play Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in SAIPAN. Photo: Aidan Monaghan

You thought you'd seen a lot of Roy Keane over the last year? Lock and load for the full Keano overdose in the coming weeks.

There are three live shows at Cork's Marquee next month, in conversation with Roddy Doyle.

And there will be plenty new material to chat about after the first trailer dropped from the movie we'll all have to see, Saipan.

The tale of the infamous row between Ireland captain Keane and manager Mick McCarthy ahead of the 2002 World Cup may well be the story most often told in the decades since.

But first indications are that directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn (Good Vibrations, Ordinary Love) might just have pulled off a fresh spin. 

And Éanna Hardwicke might even have done the unthinkable - and managed to passably inhabit one of the most unique characters this country has produced. 

He certainly seems to have captured the essence of Roy in first shots of the row that split this country.

While Steve Coogan, as you might expect, seems to have had no issue becoming Mick McCarthy.

As the two go head to head, we hear Roy shout, "You don't ever tell me we're done. I'm just getting started." 

The 'started' is just right. Though we've never heard that line before, in all the accounts. But maybe it's no harm if scriptwriter Paul Fraser (Heartlands, A Room for Romeo Brass) uses a bit of licence with this one. 

Because Saipan really became all about whatever you believed yourself, in the many civil wars that followed. 

The promoters say "SAIPAN is the thrilling story of football player Roy Keane and his manager Mick McCarthy, and the events leading up to Ireland’s incendiary 2002 World Cup campaign. 

"The intense rivalry between these two personalities transcended the game, gripping an entire nation and the sporting world. On the surface, the feud was all about standards, but deep down it was a hugely emotive story of two men whose rivalry and contempt came to surpass the sport they loved. 

"This is the definitive account of one of the most fractious fallings-out in the history of sport." 

The film is produced by Macdara Kelleher and John Keville for Wild Atlantic Pictures (Evil Dead Rise, Cocaine Bear, Black 47) along with Trevor Birney and Oliver Butler for Fine Point Films (Kneecap, No Stone Unturned) with Patrick O’Neill and Rachael O’Kane serving as Executive Producers. 

Now who will produce the film of Roy Keane watching Saipan?

We'll never get tired of him.