Date: 28th September 2005

Farrell to play cop in new drama


Colin Farrell is to star as a New York police officer who is suspected of being corrupt in a new movie called Pride and Glory.

Ed Norton and Noah Emmerich will co-star in the generational drama about a family of police officers torn apart by scandal, reports Variety.

Norton will play a homicide detective assigned to investigate the police station run by his older brother, Emmerich.

Farrell will play Norton's best friend, a policeman who might have some hidden secrets.

Filming on the movie, directed by Gavin O'Connor, will begin in New York in January.

Farrell has recently filmed Michael Mann's Miami Vice and stars in the upcoming Terrence Malick directed The New World.

Source: Press Release