Leo Barraclough International Features EditorProduction, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation is launching pre-sales on upcoming Samuel Beckett biopic “Dance First,” to be directed by James Marsh and to star Gabriel Byrne.Marsh won an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2009 with “Man on Wire,” and also directed the Stephen Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything,” which earned five nominations at the 2015 Oscars, including best picture, and a best actor win for Eddie Redmayne.Marsh will now be directing his gaze on the life of Beckett, the ground-breaking Irish writer.
Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos on life “Dance first, think later,” the film is a playful and often poignant account of the life of this icon of.
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