Trailer: Killing Bono

11:37 01 April 2011

In cinemas: 1 April 2011

Starring: Ben Barnes, Krysten Ritter, Robert Sheehan

Killing Bono is a rock nÂ’ roll comedy about two Irish brothers struggling to forge their path through the 1980Â’s music sceneÂ…whilst the meteoric rise to fame of their old school pals U2 only serves to cast them deeper into the shadows.

Neil McCormick always knew he’d be famous. A young Irish songwriter and budding genius, nothing less than a life of rock n’ roll stardom will do. But there’s only room for one singer in school band The Hype and his friend Paul’s already bagged the job. So Neil forms his own band with his brother Ivan, determined to leave The Hype in his wake. There’s only one problem: The Hype have changed their name. To ‘U2’. And Paul has turned into ‘Bono’.

Naturally thereÂ’s only one option for Neil: become bigger than U2. The brothers head to London in their quest for fame, but they are blighted by the injustices of the music industry, and their every action is dwarfed by the soaring success of their old school rivals. Then, just as they land some success of their own, Ivan discovers the shocking truth behind NeilÂ’s rivalry with U2, and it threatens to destroy everything.

As his rock nÂ’ roll dream crashes and burns, Neil feels like his failure is directly linked to BonoÂ’s success. Is he the yin to BonoÂ’s yang? Is he forever destined to live in the shadows of superstardom? And what if the answer lies inÂ… killing Bono?