To help make this film, Flatley has recruited a few people who've acted before. Now he's retired, he owns a nightclub and hotel in Barbados, but his world is thrown into chaos when an old flame returns.
Not only does Flatley star in Blackbird, he is also the director, the producer and the screenwriter, and, as you might expect, has put up most of the money.įlatley plays Victor Blackley, an Irish-American dancer who also happens to be a former operative with MI6.
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The first product of this new career is Blackbird (not to be confused with Apple TV Plus' excellent new drama) and you can see the trailer below: Now retired from dancing, Flatley has all that money burning a hole in his pocket and he's decided to become filmmaker. That career, which at one time saw Flatley insure his legs for $57.6 million, has earned him a fortune worth more than $250 million. Flatley didn't last long in Riverdance he fell out with producers over royalties and left to form his own show, Lord Of The Dance. Riverdance was obscenely successful, with revenues of over a billion dollars during its run. Flatley performed a seven-minute show titled Riverdance for the interval act of the contest, which went so well that Flatley pushed to turn the show into a full-length production.
Don't say vanity projectĭo you remember Michael Flatley? During the 1990s he was, for a time, wildly famous.Īn Irish dancer of some note, he was invited by then Republic of Ireland President Mary Robinson to help create an intermission show for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. But, could those cinematic disasters get usurped as the worst movies of 2022? There's a new contender, and it has a backstory so weird it's almost certainly going to be more interesting than the movie itself.
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