Colm Meany, Yaya DaCosta join Terry George's siege comedy 'Whole Lotta Sole' (HWT)
By Nancy Tartaglione
Colm Meany and Yaya DaCosta have joined Terry George's "Whole Lotta Sole," a siege comedy which starts shooting in Northern Ireland tomorrow. Brendan Fraser stars in the film as Joe Maguire, a man taken hostage in his antiques shop along with with a baby and two ten-year olds.
DaCosta plays Fraser's girlfriend while Martin McCann plays the gunman being pursued by Meany's detective after a botched robbery at a Belfast fishmongers owned by David O'Hare's gangland boss.
George co-wrote the film with Thomas Gallagher.
Generator Entertainment producers Simon Bosanquet and Mark Huffam, who were behind the recently-released "Killing Bono," are "thrilled to be working with Terry George in Northern Ireland on this very special film."
"Whole Lotta Sole" is a Generator Entertainment presentation of a Menlo Park and Seamus Production.
Producers are Jay Russell, Terry George, Simon Bosanquet and David Gorder.
Essential Entertainment is selling world rights with WME's Graham Taylor repping the film in the US.
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