Idris Elba follows on
the footsteps of such actors turned directors like Clint Eastwood, Angelina
Jolie, Orson Wells or George Clooney with the feature film adaptation of Victor
Headley's 1993 novel, Yardie.
For his feature film
directorial debut, Elba will be working of a script written by Brock Norman
Brock, who co-wrote Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson.
In Yardie, "D, a
courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London, decides to go it alone and
disappears into the mean streets of Hackney carrying a kilo of white powder
that his erstwhile friends are anxious to recover. But D’s treachery will never
be forgotten – or forgiven."
For Elba, Yardie will
be the third time he steps behind the camera after having previously directed a
couple of episode of the drama series Playhouse Presents starring himself, Anna
Friel, Nonso Anozie, and his Luther co-star Steven Mackintosh.
Source - Screen Daily
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