“It comes out in August and we’re still working on it” – Kenneth Branagh on the Artemis Fowl Movie

Sir Kenneth Branagh recently spoke with David Roy from The Irish News about ‘All Is True’ and shooting ‘Artemis Fowl’ in Ireland, and there’s a quote in the article that leads us to believe they’re still tweaking the Artemis Fowl movie ahead of it’s August 2019 release.

Sir Kenneth talks about his experiences working on the movie in Northern Ireland:

“That was a pleasure,” enthuses Branagh of the film, which is due for release in the summer. “We were on the north Antrim coast last summer and we were really welcomed so beautifully up there, the locals and Northern Ireland Screen and everybody helping us out gave us an amazing time.

“We got fantastic landscape shots, real people in real big Ireland. Judi Dench makes it into that one again well, as Commander Root, the head of the fairy LEPrecon, and two brilliant newcomers Ferdia Shaw and Lara McDonnell who are from Dublin and Kilkenny.

“The wonderful Irish playwright Conor McPherson did the screenplay, so it’s about as Irish as you get – plus fairies, which live underneath our feet, as you know!

He then goes on to say:

“It comes out in August [and] we’re still working on it, but I’m hopeful. Eoin has waited so patiently for these very popular books which were so beautifully done to finally make it to the screen.

“I think, 20 years on, we hope to give him what he’s after.”

It sounds very much like there might be tweaks going on, or maybe even some reshooting at the moment ahead of the release in August.

Meira and Matt have discussed in the AFC Podcasts that Disney released the teaser for Artemis Fowl earlier than they usually do, which have led us to believe they may have been gauging fan reactions to see if the movie needed tweaking prior to release. We don’t know this for sure, but it’s a distinct possibility.

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