The movie was funded by Northern Ireland Screen. The soundtrack Killing Bono which has been described as an “Irish music-based comedy” was written by Castledawson singer/songwriter Joe Echo who worked with Madonna on her single Celebration. It also features the late Pete Postlethwaite in his final film role. The film stars Ben Barnes as Neil McCormick, Robert Sheehan as Ivan McCormick, and Martin McCann as Irish singer Bono. Lower Donegall Street (pictured) was made to re-create London’s Whitechapel area complete with famous Routemaster bus, punk posters, CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) symbols, posters of the era including ‘clunk click’ for the new seatbelt laws, black London taxis and Ford Cortinas. Killing Bono is the upcoming movie adaptation of the novel Killing Bono: I Was Bonos Doppelganger by Neil McCormick, a semi-autobiographical tale of the. The city’s Cathedral Quarter was sealed off for filming on a wet Sunday. Neil McCormick with his childhood friend Bono in 2000. The story of the birth of U2 and the hapless friend who missed out on world stardom was filmed widely in Belfast city centre under the shadow of Cave Hill. Killing Bono is a comedy film directed by Nick Hamm, based on Neil McCormick’s 2003 memoir Killing Bono: I Was Bono’s Doppelgänger.
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