Try the official movie poster for Kneecap’s new biopic

Kneecap have shared the official movie poster for his or her forthcoming biopic – see it first on NME under.

The Irish rap trio unveiled the official trailer for his or her self-titled biopic, starring Michael Fassbender, final month. The movie was additionally previewed at Glastonbury Pageant’s cinema tent, Pilton Palais.

Written and directed by Wealthy Peppiatt, the feature-length comedy-drama received the Viewers Award on the Sundance Movie Pageant in January. It is because of arrive in Irish cinemas on August 8, earlier than hitting the massive display screen within the UK on August 28.

Now, the primary poster for the movie has been shared which options the band in a wobbly picture.

“Primarily based on the origin story of the riotous and ground-breaking Irish-language rap trio Kneecap, the movie stars the band’s Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí of their performing debuts,” an official synopsis reads.

“Set in West Belfast in 2019, it chronicles how destiny brings the trio collectively and the way they then go on to ‘change the sound of Irish music without end’.”

Fassbender (who performs Bap’s father, an exiled IRA member) stars in Kneecap alongside the likes of Simone Kirby, Jessica Reynolds, Fionnuala Flaherty and Josie Walker. Visit here for tickets and more information.

The movie has already obtained reward from Trainspotting creator Irvine Welsh, who described it on social media as “completely fucking phenomenal”.

“We love the film, however we weren’t positive if it could ever transcend Belfast,” Bap not too long ago informed NME. “It’s very colloquial. It’s type of like Trainspotting in that manner. Then we went to Sundance and bought the viewers award. It’s much like our music; folks simply get the power and the craic out of it. I don’t know suppose People know what a tout is, but it surely didn’t cease them having fun with it.”

“Clearly we loosely took some concepts from Trainspotting and stuff, then we had Irvine Welsh who wrote it popping out and saying it was one of the best movie he’d seen in fucking years or one thing,” added bandmate DJ Próvaí. “That’s huge reward for us. Clearly we’re a music band we’re doing fucking performing jobs that we’d by no means accomplished earlier than and folks have been doubtful about whether or not or not we have been going to make it as fucking actors; however go see it.”

Equally to Kneecap, Trainspotting used its personal particular slang however nonetheless turned an enormous success throughout cultural strains. The 1993 novel the movie relies on makes use of Scots and Scottish English to inform the story of varied heroin customers and addicts in Leith, Edinburgh.

Throughout a current interview with the trio for The Cowl, NME wrote: “The ballsy biopic is a runaway romp of intercourse, medicine, music and politics. A conflict of 8 Mile and Trainspotting with a touch of Steve McQueen’s Starvation…”

NME‘s Andrew Trendell mentioned that “Kneecap’s efficiency couldn’t be extra convincing – however then, they’ve already lived it”, including: “Holy shit. What a movie.”

In the meantime, Noel Gallagher not too long ago opened up about seeing Kneecap at Glastonbury 2024 saying he “couldn’t consider how satisfying it was”.