Irish actor Brendan Gleeson has joined the cast of Joker: Folie à Deux alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.

Showtime has released a new trailer for the two-part limited series The Comey Rule, which finds actor Brendan Gleeson turning in an uncanny performance as Donald J. Trump. Based on James Comey’s book A Higher Loyalty, the two-episode event chronicles the events surrounding the 2016 Presidential election and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of those who were there. Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) wrote and directed the limited series, but it’s not only based on Comey’s book – Ray and the filmmaking team spent a year conducting interviews of their own to put together a …

When last we reported on The Comey Rule, the upcoming Showtime miniseries based on former FBI Director James Comey's best-selling book, there was controversy about its release date. Writer/director Billy Ray sent an impassioned email to his cast members insisting that the show must air before Election Day 2020. Now, it looks as though he's gotten his wish, as The Comey Rule now has an official pre-Election Day release date, and a first trailer. Jeff Daniels stars as Comey, who seems to be an ever-increasingly worried man of integrity. Brendan Gleeson stars as President …

Showtime has released the first image of Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump from its four-hour event series The Comey Rule, which in a curious move, will premiere after the election on back-to-back nights in late November. Two-time Emmy winner Jeff Daniels stars as former FBI director James Comey, whose bestselling book A Higher Loyalty serves as the basis for the series along with a year of additional interviews with a number of key principals. Showtime bills The Comey Rule as an immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential …

Update: Deadline reports that McDonagh's next movie will star his In Bruges leads Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, which makes me very happy, not only because I speculated correctly, but because those actors are clearly great together. Deadline also adds the filming will be this summer, so there's certainly a chance the movie could be ready by this year's festival season. Original story follows below. Martin McDonagh had a breakthrough year with 2017's Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri. The controversial movie ended up picking up Oscars for Best Actress (Frances McDormand) and Best Supporting Actor (…

Brendan Gleeson is an accomplished actor with roles in Harry Potter, 28 Days Later and more. Here are his best movies according to Rotten Tomatoes.

Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson is in talks to join Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Collider has exclusively learned. Scott Rudin is producing the A24 movie, and the distributor declined to comment, while a representative for Gleeson did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Shakespeare's Macbeth follows a general (Washington) who’s convinced by a trio of witches that he’s destined to become the king of Scotland. With the help of his ambitious wife (McDormand), Macbeth tries to seize the crown by any means necessary. Gleeson …

If you watched those James Comey hearings and thought, “They should make a movie about all this,” well, you’re almost getting what you wanted. CBS Studios is set to begin production in November on a four-hour event miniseries with Emmy Award winner Jeff Daniels cast as the former FBI director. Would James Comey be a household name without Donald Trump? Of course not. The forty-fifth president will be played by Brendan Gleeson in an inspired casting choice. [caption id="attachment_837067" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Hulu[/caption] The series is based on Comey’s own New …