In a week that saw Ireland celebrate its patron saint, it's fitting that the team behind one of the greatest Irish films of all time will be reuniting very soon.
Funny, dark, and brimming with pathos, In Bruges is rightfully regarded as a modern masterpiece and it's undoubtedly the best performance of Colin Farrell's career to date, as seen by the fact he won a Golden Globe for his turn as the guilt-ridden, petulant, and eternally frustrated Ray.
However, it's possible to argue that Brendan Gleeson's world-weary, empathetic, and quietly stoic performance as Ken was just as Impressive.
Simply put, they're a double-act that work brilliantly in tandem which is fitting because as the film's writer-director Martin McDonagh admitted, both characters represented his varying psyches during a trip he made to the Belgian city.
In his feature-length debut, McDonagh received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay and since being released, In Bruges has become a bonafide cult classic that's endlessly quotable.
Well, the trio are reuniting on a new film The Banshees of Inisheer where Gleeson and Farrell play lifelong friends whose lives are thrown off course when one of them suddenly ends the relationship.
Speaking with Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show, Gleeson confirmed plans to start filming on the new feature.
"Hopefully, yeah. Hopefully, we can go in August here. It will be brilliant if we get it done here. Yeah, it will be myself, Colin and Martin McDonagh," he said.
The Banshees of Inisheer is an unpublished play written by McDonagh and is the finale of his 'Aran Islands trilogy.'
The previous entries in the series - 'The Cripple of Inishmann' and 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore' - opened in theaters over a decade ago. Here's hoping that Covid restrictions don't impact its production.
In terms of recent work, Gleeson starred alongside Denzel Washington in Joel Coen's Macbeth and was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Donald Trump in The Comey Rule.
As for Farrell, he has been quite busy after completing work on The Batman, Voyagers, After Yang and The North Water. McDonagh's last feature film was the Oscar-wniing, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
