Oh Brother, Where Art Thou Former Glory?

After 2002’s unremarkable In America and 2005’s underachieving Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, Jim Sheridan, the director of My Left Foot, The Field, In The Name Of The Father and The Boxer, plans to get back to winning ways with two movies in the pipeline.

Up first is Brothers - a remake of Dane Susanne Bier’s Brode (2004) - which tells the tale of an ex-con who comforts his wife’s brother and children when he goes missing in Afghanistan. The film will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire as the titular brothers and Natalie Portman (boy, she’s a sport) as the broken-hearted wife. The script will be penned by Troy scribe David Benioff.

After that, Jim will turn his attention to Emerald City, a sneaky peek into the world of Irish organised crime in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. Irish? Organised? We reckon it must be fiction. The trailer for the original Brode can be seen below...