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Riverdance the movie: Pierce Brosnan and Brendan Gleeson hoof it up on a screen near you
Michael Flatley becomes an impressively antlered elk in animated film based on the hit show
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It was inevitable that Riverdance would be made into a movie. The stage show has been going strong for much of the 25 years since the night in 1994 when Michael Flatley and Jean Butler bounded on to the stage at the Point Theatre in Dublin to perform the Eurovision interval show dreamed up by John Colgan and Moya Doherty.
But how would that look on screen? Would it be like a concert film or a Mamma Mia! sort of thing, its cast tap-dancing around an idyllic Irish village? Would it go for Commitments-type urban decay or just say feck it and smother the whole thing in wild mountain thyme? ....

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