Bring Them Down

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Bring Them Down
Directed byChristopher Andrews
Screenplay byChristopher Andrews
Story by
  • Christopher Andrews
  • Jonathan Hourigan
Produced by
  • Ivana MacKinnon
  • Ruth Treacy
  • Julianne Forde
  • Jacob Swan Hyam
  • Jean-Yves Roubin
  • Cassandre Warnauts
Starring
CinematographyNick Cooke
Edited byGeorge Cragg
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Mubi (North and Latin America, United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy)
  • Charades [1] (International)
Countries
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland
  • Belgium
LanguageEnglish

Bring Them Down is an upcoming thriller film written and directed by Christopher Andrews (in his directorial debut), starring Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott, Paul Ready and Colm Meaney.

Contents

Cast

Production

The project was announced with Paul Mescal and Tom Burke in the cast in March 2021. [2] Funding for the film comes from Mubi with additional funding from Screen Ireland, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the U.K. Global Screen Fund which is financed by the U.K. government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and administered by the BFI. [3] It is a European co-production with producers Ivana MacKinnon of the UK's Wild Swim Films; Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde of Ireland's Tailored Films and Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts of Belgium's Frakas Productions. [4]

Casting

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott replaced Mescal and Burke in the cast in February 2023. [5]

Filming

Principal photography took place in Ireland in February 2023. [6]

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References

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