Brendan Foley (filmmaker)
Brendan Foley is a Northern Irish writer, film producer and director. Raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he has written feature film and TV series scripts for producers and studios in UK, Hollywood, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Poland, South Africa and Thailand. He wrote and produced the 2005 action-thriller Johnny Was, starring Vinnie Jones, Eriq La Salle and Patrick Bergin. The film won awards including Audience Awards and Best Feature Awards from six film festivals.[1] His most recent work includes Cold Courage, a TV series thriller for Lionsgate, Viaplay and Luminoir shot in Europe in 2019 and The Man Who Died, a series for Elisa-Viaplay.
Career
He wrote, produced and directed
During 2006–07, Foley wrote and directed
Cold Courage, described as a Nordic Noir series involving Finnish characters in present-day London made by Finnish producers Luminoir for Lionsgate and Viaplay, shot in London, Dublin, Belgium and Finland in 2019. Actor John Simm told Variety magazine that he was attracted to the series by the quality of the writing and the fact that it was a pan-European thriller.
Unproduced work
In 2015, Foley started developing a new TV detective series for BBC TV, Farmoor (makers of The Fall) and Northern Ireland Screen (UK home of Game of Thrones) and, in 2016, he developed Tunnel Kings, a mini-series on World War II POW ‘escape-artists’ for CBC and Dream Street, Canada. Foley completed pilot scripts for SOS, a new eco-thriller series by Finnish producers Luminoir, and Kvenland, set in the Dark Ages. Previously he wrote the pilot for drama Dr Feelgood for Monday TV (Denmark).[1]
In 2019, Foley was attached to produce an adaptation of Freeman Wills Crofts' Inspector French novels.[2]
Books
Foley has written books for US and UK publishers. Under The Wire, a
Foley's next book, Archerfield, a novel, published in 2015, covers 16,000 years of history in one square mile of Scotland.[citation needed]
Other
He is a member of the Writers Guild (GB), a Fellow of the British Association of Communicators in Business, and was made an honorary life member of the National Union of Journalists in June 2006.[citation needed]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Credited as | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | ||
2006 | Johnny Was | No | Yes | Yes | Executive producer |
2007 | The Riddle | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2009 | Assault of Darkness | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Television
Year | Title | Credited as | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Writer | Producer | Notes | ||
2009-2010 | Shelldon | Yes | No | 3 episodes |
2011 | Flying with Byrd | Yes | Yes | 5 episodes |
2020 | Cold Courage | Yes | Yes | Story editor, 8 episodes |
2022 | The Man Who Died | Yes | No | 6 episodes |
2025 | Sherlock & Daughter † | Yes | Yes | Creator, executive producer |
External links
- Brendan Foley at IMDb
References
- ^ a b "Luminoir projects". Nordisk. Nordiskfonds. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ White, Peter (2 July 2019). "'Inspector French': 'Agatha Raisin' Producer Free@Last TV Adapting Classic Crime Novels With 'Cold Courage' Writer Brendan Foley". Deadline. Retrieved 11 April 2024.