Nicky Ryan (above) and his movie’s Indigogo campaign
Shot “in the style of Bloody Sunday (2002) and The Battle of Algiers (1996)”!
Six Days of The Rising will recreate “this epic fight for independence and the destruction of Dublin onscreen as never before seen”.
“Recreating the Dublin of 1916 will require the representation of the city before and after the immense destruction. The city is a character in the film and we believe that accuracy in the geography and look of the building is essential. To enable this we intend to create a very large exterior stage with the appropriate cobblestone street and lower level structure combined with 100ft high blue/green screen backgrounds, and composite authentic models of the surrounding buildings in the various stages of destruction. Rather than focusing on the leaders of the uprising, we will portray the events from the perspective of a man whose journey across the barricaded city brings him in contact with both sides of the conflict. We will bring a level of authenticity to the production that like The Summit, puts you firmly on the ground during the extraordinary events of Easter 1916”.
Nicky Ryan, Sundance Festival winning director of The Summit (2012).
FIGHT!
Six Days Of The The Rising will be part funded through an Indiegogo campaign here
Nicky Ryan pic: Paul Dowd
So does that mean they’ll include the civilians shot and killed by the IRB, or the people of Dublin spitting on them and being generally ungrateful for all the shooting and shelling?
Will there be any mention of the completely coincidental timing of the proposed extension of the British Army draft to Ireland to feed the trenches and the sudden recognition of the vast heroism shown by Pearse and the others?
In other words, do we get both sides of the story shown from the outside to those on the inside, or are we going to get the history book from first year in primary school and use that as the screenplay again?
I don’t have any money to offer but id offer my camera and editing skills also i did a load of research for a documentary that i pitched but failed to get funding about the rising.
If done right this could be deadly :)
Good luck with it.
I do think Mark asks a decent question though. If I were to fund something like this I’d want to know the slant, if there is one…..
If the film makes the effort to show that some of the Rising’s leaders were fanatics, others deluded romantics and one or two mentally unstable (Markievicz especially) then it will be worth watching!
Otherwise it will be a eulogy.
I like his celluloid reference points, so I’d love to see this get made too.
I’d be happy to act in it aswell, as long as I get to say the line “Look, I’m just an ordinary guy on the ground.”