Co-Star Michael Fassbender is a 'No-Show,' But the Band Played On Kneecap biopic, co-starring the three Irish rappers Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí, and actor Michael Fassbender, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday night. Director Rich Peppiatt says it's the first Irish-language feature to play Sundance. The film documents how this anarchic Belfast trio became unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother language and forever changed the sound of Irish music. The film, acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, will be released in North America and other major markets around the world.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:10 This film is about the rise, the start and the rise of the band Kneecap.
00:16 Right?
00:16 And really, it's a story about a band who have gone from being low-level
00:21 drug dealers to being the saviors of a language that was at threat of dying.
00:26 Maybe they were right.
00:28 Maybe we were only ever going to be the moment after the moment.
00:30 Only the last chance of getting blown up to escape it all.
00:37 But we still found ways to escape it all.
00:39 You've heard of intergenerational trauma, right?
00:45 Right.
00:46 I met them at a gig.
00:47 Like, they were playing, and I was just
00:49 blown away by the energy and the authenticity of what they were doing.
00:53 And I just kind of felt that there was a film in it.
00:55 And I didn't know what that film was going to be.
00:59 I mean, it's great being able to come to Sundance and make a film.
01:02 It's been quite an experience, you know?
01:04 They'll take away-- they'll get an understanding of Ireland
01:07 that has nothing to do with the Irish-American experience of Ireland.
01:10 It'll be a true, authentic--
01:13 we had a language in Ireland for thousands of years.
01:16 Unfortunately, the British took it off us.
01:18 Well, they tried to.
01:19 But now we're back, and we're sexier than ever.
01:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:25 (upbeat music)
01:28 (upbeat music)