Background
He was born in London in 1967.
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John McDonagh
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Career
He wrote and directed The Guard and Calvary. Most recently McDonagh told The Hollywood Reporter "I’m currently working on Assumption, my adaptation of the book by the great Percival Everett, about a black deputy sheriff in New Mexico," the British filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter In 2014 McDonagh said his follow-up to Calvary would be The Lame Shall Enter First, his third feature with Brendan Gleeson. The film follows a paraplegic ex-policeman in London who has developed a hatred for able-bodied people and who gets caught up in a new investigation after one of his friends is murdered.
He has stated that it will be the "final one in the trilogy" and will be "an amalgamation of The Guard and Calvary".
In 2011 McDonagh discussed developing other projects. One was War on Everyone which had its world premiere at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival.
Another was The Bonnot Gang, a period gangster film based on the true story of a group of French anarchist bank robbers who operated before World War I".
