In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter in September 2018, Flatley insisted the film was not a vanity project.
Alex Ritman, the Hollywood Reporter correspondent who interviewed Flatley four years ago, said he was delighted by the news of the 2 September release date.
“I think the big twist in Earth’s last season is going to be that Michael Flatley’s Blackbird is good,” he wrote.
Almost four years after it premiered and promptly disappeared, a spy thriller written, directed, produced, financed by and starring the Irish-American dancer Michael Flatley will be released in Irish cinemas in September.