Signature Entertainment has debuted a the first trailer for Here Are The Young Men, a new Irish thriller coming to screens in April. Finn Cole (Peaky Blinders), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit, Emma), Emmett J Scanlan (Peaky Blinders), Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Danger Close), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street) and Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones) round out the cast.
The film was shot back in 2018 and premiered in Ireland last summer. Great that it is finally getting a release.
Dublin 2003. Aimless teenager Matthew (Chapman) and his disaffected friends leave school into a social vacuum of drink, drugs and thrill-seeking in one last Summer of adolescence. Matthew romantically yearns after his free-spirited friend Jen (Taylor-Joy) and struggles to maintain his increasingly disturbing relationship with the magnetic but sadistic Kearney (Cole).
Whilst their precocious friend Rez (Walsh Peelo) has started to succumb to paranoia and depression. Matthew and the group are soon led by the deranged Kearney into a world of nihilistic violence, falling into shocking acts of transgression that will irrevocably change their lives.
Here Are The Young Men is written and directed by Eoin Macken from the novel of the same name by Rob Doyle.
The film hits digital on 30th April. Check out the trailer below.
