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Release Date: 2009 Cast: Laura Way, Kevin Maher, Don Wycherley, Liana O'Cleirigh, Donna Dent, Juliette Gash, Janice Byrne, David Pearse, Slaine Kelly, Rory Keenan, Bernadette Butler, Geoff Minogue ...MORE
Cast: Laura Way, Kevin Maher, Don Wycherley, Liana O'Cleirigh, Donna Dent, Juliette Gash, Janice Byrne, David Pearse, Slaine Kelly, Rory Keenan, Bernadette Butler, Geoff Minogue, Simon Delaney, Brian de Salvo, David Murray ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Parody, Science Fiction, Indie, Comedy, Farce, Slapstick Zonad is a film by John Carney and Kieran Carney that premiered in July 2009 at the Galway Film Fleadh with the directors in attendance. The film went to general release in Ireland March 19, 2010.
A story about an escaped convict who fools a whole Irish village into thinking he's a visitor from outer space. Zonad, a strange visitor comes to the town of Ballymoran, is taken in by the Cassidy family and accepted by the locals as an extraterrestrial. His comfortable existence is spoiled when Bonad arrives to replace him.
In 2003, John Carney co-wrote and co-directed an earlier version of... MORE
Zonad is a film by John Carney and Kieran Carney that premiered in July 2009 at the Galway Film Fleadh with the directors in attendance. The film went to general release in Ireland March 19, 2010.
A story about an escaped convict who fools a whole Irish village into thinking he's a visitor from outer space. Zonad, a strange visitor comes to the town of Ballymoran, is taken in by the Cassidy family and accepted by the locals as an extraterrestrial. His comfortable existence is spoiled when Bonad arrives to replace him.
In 2003, John Carney co-wrote and co-directed an earlier version of Zonad, a short film, with Kieran Carney and Tom Hall. Starring Simon Delaney and Cillian Murphy, Zonad was low-budget and was never released. Murphy played the role of Guy Hendrickson, later played by Rory Keenan.
It was filmed in Avoca, Co Wicklow, with many of the outdoor scenes filmed in the garden of Kilqueeny House in the village. The interior bar scenes were filmed in The Harbour Bar in Bray, Co. Wicklow, which was also used in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto.
The Irish Times wrote "We laughed like the proverbial drain". Variety writer John Anderson describe it as a "nutroll of a comedy" made LESS
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