H-Block (Jim Sheridan)

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For his next film, Jim Sheridan is seizing upon a true story about the Maze Prison escape, which was known as the Great Escape when the story unfolded in Northern Ireland. The three-time Oscar-nominated writer-director behind such superb films as In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot, The Field, In America and The Boxer has just cast Cillian Murphy (Dunkirk, Inception) and Fifty Shades star Jamie Dornan to lead the cast, with Pierce Brosnan in talks to also join H-Block. The story was scripted by Sheridan and Nic Sheff about an escape from the maximum-security prison that became a source of propaganda used by the IRA.

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[Hoke Moseley]

Sounds great.

[civiclx]

You had me at Ireland!

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Production is being postponed on Jim Sheridan’s next film H Block after financing didn’t come through.

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This project remains either dormant or outright dead, but fans of Jim Sheridan might be glad to know there'll be a new film by him soon - a documentary on the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, "a French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, just days before Christmas in 1996."