It looks like the ever-busy Idris Elba is looking to step behind the camera for his directorial debut, with StudioCanal CEO Danny Perkins revealing to Screen Daily that the Luther star is developing an adaptation of Victor Headley’s 1993 novel Yardie.
The synopsis for Headley’s novel reads: “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.”
Elba is currently shooting the long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, where he portrays protagonist Roland Deschain, and will soon reprise the role of Heimdall for the Marvel sequel Thor: Ragnarok. He’ll next be seen as the villain Krall later this month in Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek Beyond.
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Originally published July 9, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
