Irish director Gerard Barrett is set for international success with his latest film.
The Kerry man has had a hugely successful year with his new movie Glassland, starring Jack Reynor.
And now Gerard will be spending the coming months in New York working on his next film Brain on Fire.
The movie will star A listers Charlize Theron and Dakota Fanning.
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“We’re in pre-production now and the plan is to shoot early in the summer,
“Dakota Fanning, Charlize Theron, Will Poulter and a few more people as well who haven’t been announced yet will be starring in it,” he said.
“It’s based on a New York Times Bestseller about a girl who gets this mystery illness and they can’t diagnose it,
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“It’s a really performance driven, human in crisis piece that I like and it suits me perfectly,” he told the Herald.
The movie, with its stellar line up has a budget to match.
“It’s double digit million stuff, which is fine but it still comes down to the same thing.”
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“You do the same job, you get great performances and tell a story and hopefully people like it,” he said.
Meanwhile the IFTA winner has plenty of projects to keep him busy post Brain on Fire.
“I write my own projects as well. If someone sends me a book and if I like it, I’ll consider it.
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“That’s what happened with Brain on Fire. But after that film is done the next few projects I’m working on are very much my own ones that I created myself,” he said.
“We’ll see what happens. It’s good fun and sure if it all goes I’ll just go home to Kerry and do farming, so it’s grand,” he added.
