REPRESENTATIVES for Bord Scannan na hÉireann have announced that a
sequel to the much-loved 1990 drama “The Field” has been put into
pre-production, with filming expected to begin in Galway later this
year.
The Field, an adaptation of the John B. Keane play of the same name,
was met with critical and financial success when it was released 25
years ago. Starring Richard Harris, Brenda Fricker and Sean Bean, the
tale of an Irish farmer driven mad over his obsession with a small field
garnered rave reviews and an Academy Award nomination for its leading
man.
The sequel, provisionally titled Field 2 – The New Acre, will
continue the story of the Bull McCabe following the tragic conclusion to
the first movie. Brenda Fricker and John Hurt are expected to reprise
their roles, with the late Richard Harris being replaced by his
Dumbledore stand-in, Michael Gambon.
“We really felt that audiences wanted to see what happened Bull
McCabe, last seen walking into the waves on the west coast,” said Liam
Killian, the 25-year-old first-time director and son of IFB chief Graham
Killian.
“So we decided to create this new movie, which we received funding
for due to it being based on an existing, popular property. We’ve got a
couple of my mates working on a script at the minute, based around Bull
McCabe’s second field which wasn’t mentioned in the first movie, and his
attempts to save it from another American investor, possibly played by
Al Pacino. He’s really cheap these days!”
The sequel is expected to hit screens early next year, with rumours
circulating it my be filmed back-to-back with a trilogy-capping third
movie Field 3: Ploughing Time.
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