Barry Keoghan's new movie to premiere at Cannes
Barry Keoghan's new movie Bird is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival following the announcement of this year's line-up.
The new movie from American Honey director Andrea Arnold is also set to star Passages' Franz Rogowski and will screen In Competition to compete for the prestigious Palme d'Or.
Plot details about Bird are under wraps for now, though we do know that it was filmed last summer in Kent.
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Also announced for Cannes' In Competition is The Apprentice, the movie about the young Donald Trump starring Marvel's Sebastian Stan and Succession's Jeremy Strong.
Only Murders in the Building star Selena Gomez's musical Emilia Perez will also compete for the top prize, as will new Emma Stone movie Kinds of Kindness, which will see her re-team with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos.
The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis starring Star Wars' Adam Driver and Game of Thrones' Nathalie Emmanuel will also debut In Competition.
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Keoghan recently starred in Saltburn, which became a hit on social media after being released on Prime Video.
As well as Bird, the actor recently lined up a role in Iraq War movie Amo Saddam, which sees him play one of the American soldiers guarding former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein while the dictator was on trial for crimes against humanity.
Keoghan will also star in Irish thriller Bring Them Down alongside Catch-22's Christopher Abbott, Paul Ready, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone and Susan Lynch.
The movie follows the last son of a shepherding family who is burdened with a terrible secret, though is forced to face the horrors of his past amid a conflict with a rival farmer.
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival will take place between May 14 and 25.
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