Here's another Cillian decade-old rarity, thanks to YouTube. It's a small part in a short film, A Man of Few Words, but since I'd never seen it before, I was still excited to see it. We added a little screen caps gallery for this film too.

From Galway to Broadway content update

We've got more on Cillian's onstage participation in Druid's 35th anniversary show. Check out the From Galway to Broadway and back. page in our Plays section, which details the production and, like all our Body of Work section pages, serves as a portal to the production's gallery pages and archived reviews.

Some lovely Cillian fan has put the extremely hard-to-find 1999 indie Sunburn up on YouTube. Cillian is all wet behind the ears and gorgeous—watch it while you can!

New films: more on Strangers and the still M.I.A. Hippie

As we blogged in June, Cillian will star in the World War II film Wayfaying Strangers, a "character-driven thriller" which Variety reported was to film this month (not sure if that's happening). Production company Chic Films offers a tidbit about the plot, which sounds remarkably tense:

Occupied France in 1942. A unit of British paratroopers are held by their German captors in a remote farmhouse. The farmer's family are sheltering a young Jewish couple in the attic and their fate seems dangerously inevitable. But heroism is never so predictable...

IFTN lists Strangers as being in pre-production, along with At-Swim-Two-Birds. Nothing in Variety or on IMDb yet about the film or Cillian's participation.

And now back to a film Cillian finished in 2007! Like we are, The New York Post's film critic Lou Lumenick is wondering why Hippie Hippie Shake hasn't been released. This was a juicy lead role for Cillian, but it has been delayed for years, and though it was supposed to come out this year, it shows no signs of doing so. On 13 August, Lumenick summed it up with this painful advice: "Guess we should keep an eye on Universal Home Entertainment's announcements of upcoming DVD releases." While that would be another straight-to-DVD disappointment for fans, it would certainly be better than Hippie languishing in the can forever, which is starting to seem possible. It is apparently such a disaster that the couple who directed and wrote it walked off the production last year.

Another video from Cillian's session with Flaunt has surfaced on YouTube—see below. And check out the new photos we've added to the gallery for the Flaunt photoshoot by Yu Tsai.

Cillian to shoot two new films this fall?

Cillian could have two new films under his belt if all goes well for two fascinating sounding projects, one opposite Thandie Newton and one that Justin Timberlake might also do.

The Retreat, due to begin filming in Wales this September and dubbed a "bio/psychological hazard pic" by Empire, will star Cillian and Newton (ER, Crash) as a couple who take a remote vacation to reconnect, only to be confronted by a soldier in a biohazard suit who tells them, perhaps lying, that he and they are the last people alive on earth. Jamie Bell just signed on to play the soldier. This flick makes us think of the tensions of 28 Days Later... crossed with the intimate suspense of Red Eye, both mainstream smashes for Cillian—looks to be promising!

Cillian is in final negotiations for a perhaps smaller role in I'm.mortal, but the character sounds fascinating, as well as pivotal like Colin Farrell's part in Minority Report was. This film takes a more sci-fi turn, being set in the near future, and is also slated to begin filming in (late) September (hmm...). The Hollywood Reporter describes it this way:

The story is set in the not-too-distant future, when the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, and the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. When a poor man named Will (Timberlake, who still is negotiating his deal) is suddenly given a fortune, he becomes the target of a murder investigation and kidnaps an heiress (Amanda Seyfried) while on the run. Murphy will play an officer from an organization known as Timekeepers and described as "precise as the time he keeps."