In the movie, this news does not go down well, especially since it arrives at roughly the same moment Neil has made the serious miscalculation of sleeping with the wife of the boss of Shook Up's record label. One of them was happy to inform Ivan, years after the fact, that his brother had kept him out of what became perhaps the world's biggest rock band. Now a rock journalist for the British daily The Telegraph, McCormick did some late-'70s writing for Hot Press, Ireland's equivalent of Rolling Stone, and his cockiness earned him a few enemies there. (It's scrambling not just for success, but also for a style it can call its own and not U2's.) More than a decade later, huge posters for The Joshua Tree are plastered all over Dublin, and Ivan McCormick (Robert Sheehan) is still playing guitar for Shook Up, Neil's struggling group. Neil's original sin is that he secretly convinced Bono not to recruit his little brother for the Hype, the band that became U2.
The story includes some classic tropes of Brit-rock legend, including the feuding brothers (see The Kinks, Oasis) and the bandmate who just missed the double-decker bus to fame (see Pete Best). It's an amiable, lightweight romp that should interest fans of U2 and other '80s Irish rockers, but it would be more actively amusing if it didn't insist on portraying its title character (impersonated by Martin McCann) as such a bloody nice guy. No rock stars were injured in the making of Killing Bono, a semi-fictionalized retelling of McCormick's 2004 memoir, despite the picture's aggrieved title in fact Neil himself (played by Ben Barnes) is the only main character the movie seriously lampoons.
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