"Who wrote ""The Commitments"", ""The Snapper"" and ""The Van""?"
The Van (1996 film) The Van (1996 film) The Van is a 1996 film, based on the novel "The Van" (the third in "The Barrytown Trilogy") by Roddy Doyle. Like "The Snapper" (1993), it was directed by Stephen Frears. (The first movie of the trilogy, "The Commitments" (1991), was directed by Alan Parker). It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Brendan "Bimbo" Reeves gets laid off from his job as a baker in Barrytown, a working-class quarter of Dublin. With his redundancy cheque, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his best mate, Larry. Due, in part, to Ireland's
The Commitments (film) sequels to the 1991 film adaptation, stating, "I hope it's never made. I just think that, whereas "The Commitments" was very much a labour of love, "Commitments 2" is definitely an act of cynicism." Doyle was given creative freedom by the BBC over the adaptation of "The Snapper", for which he wrote the screenplay. Lynda Myles returned to produce the film and hired Stephen Frears as its director. Colm Meaney returned in a supporting role. The adaptation was originally planned as a television film before Frears suggested that it be transferred to film. Doyle disagreed with the change, stating, "I