Idris Elba, we know him from his roles in The Wire and Luther or his performance on the big screen in Prometheus and The Suicide Squad. But what you might not know is that the Brit made one film and one only: it was in 2008, with Yardie!
Along with Yardi, Idris Elba, who spoofed his role in The Wire, signs on for a gritty revenge thriller that shows him candidly behind the camera. Adapted from Victor Headley’s 1992 novel of the same name, the film follows a cocaine dealer, orphaned by an older brother, who must bring kilograms of the drug from Jamaica to London in the 1980s. But instead of taking it to his employer as planned, he decides to sell it himself on the streets of the English capital.
If Idris Elba set his vision yard If he took up directing, it was because he felt a personal connection to the plot of the novel. “I worked on this book adaptation for five years before it was done, so it was a long, slow process toward completion.”, He confided in 2019 to the site of Entertainment Weekly. “This is a book I read as a teenager, and I could relate to the character’s struggle.”
Personal connection for Idris Elba
“He’s a guy who’s in London, there’s this gang culture”A Briton born in a British city continues. “It’s not like that anymore, but then the confrontations between the yards (Slang for residents of the Trenchtown slums in Kingston, Jamaica, editor’s note) And the police were something important and all young black teenagers could relate to what was going on. And of course, the main character is a young DJ, and that’s a world I was very immersed in when I was 16.
Led by a very convincing Aml Amin, this yard The direct-to-VOD release also features the excellent Stephen Graham (Snatch, Boardwalk Empire, The Irishman) in the cast as a powerful London drug lord.
Trailer for the latest Apple TV+ series ‘Hijack’ hosted by Idris Elba:
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