This part of Ireland, the northwest quadrant of the country is sort of the most remote, least populated, least visited area.

And it's also historically the place that people go to get away and to hide out.

You know, when I went up there and saw how beautiful that place was, which I liked the idea of contrasting that beauty with this dark story and violence and so forth.

Yeah, I wanted to take advantage of it.

I wanted to, you know, initially I started, okay, well, we'll start in Belfast, but then I want to make it clear that we're moving far from there.

Okay. from there. Hello and welcome back to the Directors' Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, a man is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins in director

Robert Lawrence's mystery thriller in the land of saints and sinners.

The film tells the story of Finn Barr Murphy, a man eager to leave his dark past behind

by living a quiet life in a remote Irish fishing village.

But when a menacing crew of terrorists arrive, he is forced to choose between keeping his

secret identity hidden or defending his community from the encroaching violence.

In addition to In the Land of Saints and Sinners, Lawrence's other directorial credits

include the feature films, The Marksmen, and Trouble with the Curve.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Lawrence spoke

with director Brian Helgeland about filming

in the Land of Saints and Centers. Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Rob and I have worked together twice. Rob produced two movies that I wrote, but we're

here tonight in our preferred

incarnation at our preferred place. So thank you for coming. Um, Rob's kind of, he's kind of

the poster child for the DGA, I think, in a lot of ways because he started out, um, as, you know,

ended up as a first AD and, uh matriculated to director and uh i just wanted you to

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