Brendan Gleeson (Alone In Berlin) and Michael Fassbender (Alien: Covenant) will be back in action together this year in traveller family crime drama, Trespass Against Us. The two Irish actors take the leading roles in Adam Smith’s directorial debut following his successes with Skins, Doctor Who and the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit. Having worked together as father and son in the Assassin’s Creed movie, they’ve clearly got a strong rapport on screen.
Following its Toronto International Film Festival premier last year, the film has picked up mixed reviews, so it may not be the hard hitting slant on crime and the traveller community that the trailer below seems to imply. However, the reviews are mostly by American journalists and film critics, so it’s possible that they just didn’t have much of a clue about what the craic is with the accents of the starts on turbo charge.
Release date
Trespass Against Us has been slated for a UK release date of Friday the 3rd March 2017, having already hit the big screen in the US on the 20th January, earlier in the year. It’ll be out on the same weekend in the UK as Wolverine trilogy closer, Logan, Kristen Stewart and Michelle Williams Drama, Certain Women, and Gillian Anderson’s historical drama, Viceroy’s House.
Story
The Cutler family have become notorious criminals, running their operation from the comfort of their traveller community, surrounded by some of the wealthiest country estates in the country. When the constabulary start to crack down more seriously on the clan, Chad (Fassbender) finds himself torn between his allegiances to his disreputable father Colby (Gleeson) and his hopes for a better life for his own young family.
Cast
In addition to Michael Fassbender and Brendon Gleeson as the father son mis-duo, Trespass Against Us also stars Lyndsey Marshal (Inside No. 9) as Chad’s wife Kelly and Rory Kinnear (SPECTRE) as Police Constable Lovage. They’re joined by Sean Harris (Macbeth (2015)), Killian Scott (’71), Kingsley Ben-Adir (King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword), and Gerard Kearns (Looking For Eric).
Production
Adam Smith makes his big screen directorial debut with the release of the film from a script written by Alastair Siddons. Producers include Gail Egan (Last King Of Scotland), Andrea Calderwood and Alastair Siddons.
First impressions
Weighing everything up, you’ve got to expect Trespass Against Us to be pretty taught no matter how bad the North American reviews. The trailer looks pretty intense with some strong acting from both Fassbender and Gleeson, and with such an impressive support cast of Rory Kinnear and Sean Harris waiting in the wings, it’s pretty difficult to see how Smith could have gotten things wrong. A lot will ride on how well it lands the opposing pull of the hopes for a better life, family ties and criminal minds.
