Chris O'Dowd is to star opposite US comedian Bill Burr in Bender, a coming-of-age comedy that will film in Ireland this summer.
US entertainment trade publication Deadline reports that Bender has been described as "Superbad meets Derry Girls".
Written by Irish screenwriter Adrian Cunningham and directed by Adam Bernstein (Pluribus, Better Call Saul), the film follows a group of hot-under-the-collar teenage misfits during the Papal visit to Ireland in 1979.
O'Dowd, Deadline says, will play "a self-made family man trying to put on a brave face while his business, his marriage, and his faith begin to crumble amid a brutal economic recession".
Burr will play a gruff American record shop owner who convinces the misfits that the huge crowds offer them "their best, and possibly only, chance to lose their virginity" before they finish school.
Dublin company Reflektor Media is among the producers of Bender.
Roscommon star O'Dowd will next be heard on cinema screens in the comedy The Sheep Detectives. It opens on Friday, 8 May, with previews from Saturday, 2 May to Monday, 4 May.
Watch: The trailer for The Sheep Detectives
