Ireland's 2002 World Cup campaign was famously disrupted when the team's star player, combative midfielder Roy Keane, and head coach Mick McCarthy feuded over the conditions in which the team was preparing for the tournament, leading to Keane's notorious walkout.
Directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn from a script by Paul Fraser, Saipan sees Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke take on the respective roles of McCarthy and Keane in a dramatisation of the feud.
Alice Lowe, Jamie Beamish, Alex Murphy, Harriet Cains and Peter McDonald also star.
Saipan is in Irish cinemas from January 1st and British cinemas from January 23rd.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
SAIPAN is the thrilling story of football player Roy Keane and his manager Mick McCarthy, and the events leading up to Ireland’s incendiary 2002 World Cup campaign. The intense rivalry between these two personalities transcended the game, gripping an entire nation and the sporting world. On the surface, the feud was all about standards, but deep down it was a hugely emotive story of two men whose rivalry and contempt came to surpass the sport they loved. This is the definitive account of one of the most fractious fallings-out in the history of sport.
