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nymag.com - 2/7/2008

Martin McDonagh on Colin Farrell, Giving Up Playwriting, and Bruges

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Photo: Getty Images Martin McDonagh may just be releasing his first feature film — the dark hit-man comedy-drama In Bruges — but it’s hardly his first time in the spotlight. The author of the acclaimed plays The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Pillowman , the Irish wunderkind — who got his first Tony nomination at the age of 28 — is also the possessor of an ...

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So, Why Bruges?
RopeofSilicon.com — ... starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as a couple of hitmen that have to take a side trip after a recent fuck up during an assignment. New York Magazine has an interview with writer/director Martin McDonagh in which an appropriate question is asked and it gives you a great insight into the mind of a screenwriter. Here yah go: So, why Bruges? I went there about four years ago on a weekend trip from London. I didn’t know anything about the place — but I was struck by how picturesque and how otherworldly and medieval and Gothic it was. I asked myself, “Why hasn’t this ...