What you may need to know:
1. Like most smart filmmakers, Neil Jordan has embraced TV, with The Borgias now in its second season.
2. He still does features, even though recent ones like Ondine (2009) and The Brave One (2007) haven’t been feeling the love. His best movie? We’re thinking The Butcher Boy (1997). And still love Mona Lisa (1986).
3. Byzantium is Jordan’s first vampire flick since Interview With The Vampire (1994) 19 years ago, still his biggest box-office hit.
4. Carlow’s own Saoirse Ronan is starring in the next Wes Anderson movie, then Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, with Stephenie ‘Twilight’ Meyer adaptation of The Host (2013) in cinemas any day now.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Where’s Stephen Rea when you need him?
Release Date: Summer
