Filmmaker Neil Jordan will today begin shooting scenes from his latest production in the North. Breakfast on Pluto, directed by Jordan, will shoot in Glenavy and Belfast over the next three weeks.
The film began production last month after Jordan was granted permission by diocesan authorities to begin shooting in the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Kilkenny.
Some of the locals in Callan town were concerned about the storyline, which is based on Patrick McCabe's controversial novel of the same name. Breakfast on Pluto, the book, follows Patrick Braden, who is the product of an affair between the village priest and his teenage housekeeper.
Braden, played by Cillian Murphy, leaves the fictional town of Tyreelin in Ireland to become a transvestite cabaret singer in 1970s London.
It also stars Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea and Gavin Friday. Breakfast on Plutois a collaboration between Bord Scannan na hEireann /Irish Film Board , Pathe Pictures Limited, Parallel Films and Number 9 Films and is due to be released next year.