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{{Infobox film
| name           = Killing Bono
| image          = Killing Bono.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = 
| director       = [[Nick Hamm]]
| producer       = Ian Flooks<br />Mark Huffam<br />Piers Tempest
| screenplay     = [[Dick Clement]]<br />[[Ian La Frenais]]<br />[[Simon Maxwell]]<br />[[Ben Bond (additional material)]]
| story          = [[Neil McCormick]] {{small|(novel)}}
| starring       = [[Ben Barnes (actor)|Ben Barnes]]<br />[[Robert Sheehan]]<br />[[Martin McCann]]
| music          = 
| cinematography = Kieran McGuigan
| editing        = Billy Sneddon
| studio         = [[Northern Ireland Screen]]
| distributor    = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|2011|4|1}}
| runtime        = 114 minutes
| country        = {{Film UK}}
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}
'''''Killing Bono''''' is a comedy film directed by Nick Hamm, based on [[Neil McCormick]]'s 2003 memoir ''Killing Bono: I Was Bono's Doppelgänger''. The storyline features Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8376077/Neil-McCormick-on-Killing-Bono.html |title=Neil McCormick on 'Killing Bono’ |author=Neil McCormick |publisher=telegraph.co.uk |date=2011-03-11 |accessdate=2011-06-09}}</ref>

The film loosely recreates the story of young Irish rocker McCormick and his younger brothers, Ivan, who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their secondary school friends form [[U2]] and become the biggest band in Ireland. The film stars [[Ben Barnes (actor)|Ben Barnes]] as Neil McCormick, [[Robert Sheehan]] as Ivan McCormick, and [[Martin McCann (actor)|Martin McCann]] as Irish singer [[Bono]].<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535101/</ref> It also features the late [[Pete Postlethwaite]] in his final film role.

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[[Category:British films]]
[[Category:Irish films]]
[[Category:English-language films]]

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