Zachary Wigon’s Victorian Psycho and two projects from faith-based US distributor Angel Studios, the feature Young Washington
and series The Wayfinders, are among a slew of international and local projects shooting in Ireland this summer.
Many productions will be hoping to wrap ahead of series three of Netflix’s Wednesday, which is expected to return to shoot in Ireland in the autumn, employing many Irish crew. The second series was, according to Screen Ireland, the largest production to ever shoot in the country.
US filmmaker Wigon’s Victorian Psycho stars Longlegs actor Maika Monroe alongside Jason Isaacs and Thomasin McKenzie, and will film across Ireland and the UK from August 18. The story unfurls in Victorian England as an eccentric governess arrives at a remote gothic manor where strange happenings stir suspicion she is not what she seems.
The horror thriller is a US-UK production, produced byTraffic and Anton respectively. Katie Holly and Lisa Kelly are executive producing for Ireland’s Keeper Pictures.
Also filming in August is Jon Erwin’s Young Washington, which will shoot in Ireland as well as Virginia in the US. William Franklyn-Miller plays George Washington. Erwin also produces for US company Wonder Project, alongside 10 Ton Productions and 2521 Entertainment. Wild Atlantic Pictures is the Irish producer.
Fantasy series The Wayfinders is now shooting at Troy Studios in County Limerick. Directed by Glen Winter it follows a band of unlikely heroes, starring Mackenzie Crook. It is produced by the US’ Arrowstorm and Limerick-based Dark Day Pictures. Shooting is also taking place in County Clare, Tipperary and Offaly.
Irish productions understood to be shooting across August and September include Colm Bairéad’s Mary Rose, produced by Ireland’s Insceal and co-produced by Belgium’s Lemming Film, and Declan Recks’ One Sweet Hour, produced by Ireland’s Samson Films.
Element Pictures is filming the third and final series of comedy The Dry for RTÉ and ITV in Dublin, while The Lost Children Of Tuam, a film based on the discovery of a mass grave of 800 infants at a mother and baby home, is understood to be filming from September, with Liam Neeson also a producer on the project.
UK filmmaker Rob Savage’s horror Other Mommy (previously known as Grandma’s House) starring Jessica Chastain and produced by the US’ Blumhouse and Atomic Monster and Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Pictures, wrapped its Ireland shoot earlier this month, as did Stephen Burke’s heist comedy Chasing Millions, which shot in Dublin and Dundalk, produced by Ireland’s Mammoth Films.