Established last year, it will be the company's first feature film. It will be produced through their production company Big Things Films, which is based in Dublin. Both Mielants and Murphy worked on the BAFTA Award-winning series Peaky Blinders.Įnda Walsh, an acclaimed Irish playwright, screenwriter, and long-time collaborator of Murphy was commissioned by Murphy and the producer Alan Moloney to write the script. Small Things Like These will also be directed by Tim Mielants, whose projects include Will, The Responder, and Patrick. Working alongside the Irish actor will be Ciarán Hinds of Belfast and Munich and Emily Watson from Breaking the Waves and God's Creatures. Not only will he be starring in the film, but he's also helping produce it. “I’m honoured and thrilled to have the opportunity to bring Claire Keegan’s magnificent novel to the screen," said Oppenheimer and A Quiet Place Part II actor Cillian Murphy. Also shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and the Rathbones Folio Prize, it's now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, an annual award for the best novel in the world in English. The novel went on to win the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France, and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the year.
A discovery before Christmas reveals secrets about his past, home, and current life. Small Things Like These, originally published in 2021 by Grove Press, is about a coal merchant, Billy Furlong in a small Irish town in 1985. Acclaimed Irish author Claire Keegan's literary work is making its way to the big screen again, after her novella Foster inspired the BAFTAs nominated and Oscars shortlisted Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin.
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