Anglophile Movies: U2 Origins Movie Being Filmed in Belfast

This will surely be something to watch when it hits theaters next summer. A movie about the early days of U2 is currently being filmed in Belfast.

From the BBC:

The feature film, titled “Killing Bono”, is being made in and around the city over the next six weeks.

The film, which has been described as a “music-based comedy”, is set during U2′s formative years in north Dublin and London.

It is based on the memoirs of Bono’s schoolfriend, Neil McCormick, who is now a music critic for the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

“Killing Bono” tells the story from the point of view of the rather less successful rival band which he set up with his brother in the late 1970s.

The plan is for it to hit theaters in summer 2010.