Barry Keoghan battling Christopher Abbott in his native Irish countryside? No, this isn’t an growth of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” music video: It’s “Deliver Them Down,” author/director Chris Andrews’ newest revenge drama that premiered on the 2024 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant.
The official synopsis for “Deliver Them Down” reads: “Michael (Abbott), the final son of a shepherding household, lives together with his ailing father, Ray (Colm Meaney). Burdened by guilt over the loss of life of his mom, Michael has remoted himself from the world. When a battle with rival farmer Gary (Paul Prepared) and his son Jack (Keoghan) escalates, Michael is drawn right into a devastating chain of occasions, forcing him to confront the horrors of his previous and leaving each households completely altered.”
Nevertheless, the connection between Abbott and Keoghan’s respective characters is a bit more advanced: Keoghan’s onscreen mom is Abbott’s ex, and due to this fact Keoghan is sort of a surrogate son turned epitome of the life Abbott may have had. Previous to the 2 stars being forged, Tom Burke and Paul Mescal have been initially set for the lead roles.
The movie is co-written by Andrews and Jonathan Hourigan, with Julianne Forde, Jacob Swan Hyam, Ivana MacKinnon, Jean-Yves Roubin, Ruth Treacy, and Cassandre Warnauts producing.
The characteristic premiered at TIFF earlier than screening at BFI. IndieWire’s Kate Erbland wrote in her evaluation that the title has a double which means, with Abbott’s Michael having to carry his sheep down from Keoghan’s household property but in addition referring to how their twin will escalate. “That’s lengthy after everybody concerned has determined to carry the opposite individuals down, irrespective of the price, irrespective of the ache, irrespective of the distress,” Erbland wrote. “By the tip, we’re all within the muck, all at all-time low, praying for the tragedy and inhumanity to finish. It gained’t.”
Abbott will subsequent seem in Blumhouse and Common’s characteristic “Wolf Man,” in addition to the Netflix adaptation of “East Of Eden” alongside Florence Pugh. Keoghan is believed to subsequent be portraying Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic. Learn Keoghan’s current interview with IndieWire right here.
“Deliver Them Down” will premiere in theaters on Friday, February 7 from MUBI. Take a look at the trailer, an IndieWire unique, under.