A release date has been given for new revenge thriller The Northman, which was filmed in Belfast and the north coast in late 2020.
Set in Iceland in Viking times, The Northman was created and directed by Robert Eggers.
It stars Alexander Skarsgard as Nordic prince Amleth and features Hollywood heavyweights including Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy and Willem Dafoe, as well as Icelandic singer Björk, who will play a character called The Slav Witch.
The film is currently in post-production, and has now been confirmed for release in April 2022 .
It comes after numerous stars of the film paid tribute to their time working in Northern Ireland.
Ethan Hawke said that he had a "wonderful" time filming here.
Speaking with Brendan O’Connor on RTE Radio 1 earlier this year, Hawke said: “One of the highlights of my Covid experience was going to Ireland.
“I had a role in a Robert Eggers film that we shot in Northern Ireland in Belfast.
“I had a wonderful experience doing that.
“I mean it was really hard, everybody’s got a mask on, I could sit next to the director on a bus and not recognise him. We had rigorous protocol.
"It was the first time in my life I went on a movie and I never had dinner with anybody – there’s no cast parties, there’s no crew get-togethers.
“Everybody had their different colour vest on and their face masks on and I was getting a Covid test every other day.
“It was pretty intense but I was proud of us for getting the work done.”
Co-star Nicole Kidman has also hailed Belfast as one of her favourite places following filming, going so far as to say she contemplated moving here.
Speaking on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast she said: "I was shooting in Belfast. I love Belfast now.
"The weirdest thing was, I'm in Belfast, and I have this way of always going, 'maybe I should move here' - I'm that person.
"So I'm in Belfast going, 'this place is really special.' There's something about it, I was just drawn.
"I have Irish blood. Part of my family came over to Australia in 1839 on the SS Susan."
Back in February, Belfast Live shared photos from the set of The Northman, which was being filmed along the North Coast, as well as at Belfast Harbour Studios.
