It was funny, touching, provocative and true. A tale of how hubris and jealousy can both motivate and destroy. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill biopic charting the rise to stardom of a now very famous band. Indeed, every story has its challenges, and even though Neil McCormick’s had more than most, it was so original I couldn’t resist. Director Nick Hamm gave MovieMaker the inside scoop on the blend of fact and fiction in his dark comedy, U2’s involvement in the film and working with the late Pete Postlethwaite, whose performance as the McCormicks’ randy landlord Karl marked his final film role before his passing last January.ĭirectors are constantly looking for original areas in which to work we are always searching for the unique and different. In Killing Bono, based on Neil McCormick’s 2005 memoir I Was Bono’s Doppelganger, all Neil McCormick (Ben Barnes) wants to do is form a band with his brother Ivan (Robet Sheehan), get signed, become world famous and “pull off the biggest rock and roll invasion of America since the Beatles.” Is that too much to ask? Unfortunately for the McCormicks, while their band doesn’t exactly ascend to the heights of superstardom, some old school friends of theirs manage to form a band that’s quite a bit more successful: U2 (Ivan: “It sounds like a bleedin’ submarine!”).

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