{"id":413710,"date":"2026-04-23T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:17:07","slug":"vaughan-lawlor-and-isaacs-film-thriller-in-dublin-meath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413710\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan-Lawlor and Isaacs film thriller in Dublin &#038; Meath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0201\/1555922-tom-vaughan-lawlor-dives-into-these-sacred-vows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">These Sacred Vows<\/a>) and Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus) are filming a new thriller, Silverback, in Dublin and Meath.<\/p>\n<p>The feature debut of writer-director Steve Kenny, Silverback is produced by the Dublin-based Forty Foot Pictures with support from F\u00eds \u00c9ireann\/Screen Ireland in association with the UK&#8217;s Bankside Films and Viewfinder Film.<\/p>\n<p>The synopsis for Silverback reads: &#8220;When architect turned stay-at-home dad Rob (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) meets his new next-door neighbour &#8211; the notorious criminal Terry (Jason Isaacs) &#8211; the two quickly become friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aura Terry exudes speaks to something Rob fears he has lost, while in Rob, Terry finds a fellow father to confide in &#8211; a man whose ordinary, decent life he admires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, it isn&#8217;t long before the menace of Terry&#8217;s world comes calling on their sedate suburban existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Writer-director Kenny said: &#8220;With production up and running, it&#8217;s been incredibly exciting to see our story move from the page to the screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At its heart, Silverback explores the power dynamics of male friendship, the responsibility of fatherhood, and our capacity for violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tom and Jason are two extraordinary actors perfectly suited to bringing these primal concerns to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their performances are the centrepiece of our film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for more movie news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (These Sacred Vows) and Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus) are filming a new thriller, Silverback, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-413710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}