Gleeson shooting movie in the West
Brendan Gleeson and American actor Don Cheadle are shooting a new comedy thriller in the West of Ireland.
'The Guard' tells the story of an unorthodox Garda who joins forces with a stuffy FBI agent to catch an international drug smuggling gang.
The press release for the film says: "Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
"However, despite the fact that Boyle seems more interested in mocking and undermining Everett than in actively working to solve the case, he finds that circumstances keep pulling him back into the thick of it."
The film also stars Liam Cunningham, Pat Shortt, Fionnuala Flanagan, Mark Strong, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan and Katarina Cas.
'Ned Kelly' scriptwriter John Michael McDonagh has written and is directing the film.
