Michael Fassbender Will SWIM With TWO BIRDS And Brendan Gleeson

Screendaily reported that Michael Fassbender, Gabriel Byrne, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Domhnall Gleeson will star in a period drama, titled AT-SWIM-TWO-BIRDS directed by and also starring Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges, The Guard). Production starts in Spring 2012.
I saw the movie The Guard recently and thought Gleeson was fantastic but he’s always consistent in what he does, so it was not much of a surprise. By the way, actor Domhnall is Gleeson’s son.
This Gleeson’s passion project is about ‘a teenage student who populates his creative writing with important characters from his own life”, based on Irish author Flann O’Brien‘s seminal metaphysical novel. Order the book today at Amazon, after the jump is its official synopsis..

A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds
is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing. Hilariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds
has influenced generations of writers, opening up new possibilities for what can be done in fiction. It is a true masterpiece of Irish literature.