Idris Elba to star in movie on Bin Laden killing

The website said the film, which will be Bigelow’s first project since her Oscar winning film ‘The Hurt Locker,’ is scheduled to start production early next year, for a late 2012 release. In an interview he granted Weekend Magazine early this year, he said he doesn’t really like Nollywood movies. He attributed that to mistakes. […]

The website said the film, which will be Bigelow’s first project since her Oscar winning film ‘The Hurt Locker,’ is scheduled to start production early next year, for a late 2012 release.

In an interview he granted Weekend Magazine early this year, he said he doesn’t really like Nollywood movies. He attributed that to mistakes. “The ones that stand out are those errors in continuity, music playing over dialogue all the time and the women always screaming or shouting.” But he confessed to watching them, still, “Even if it takes my parents to more or less force me to do so.”

The only child of parents hailing from Ghana and Sierra-Leone, 37-year-old Iris Elba was born in East London. As a teen, he landed bit parts (or ‘waka-pass’ as it’s called in Nollywood) on British television. His father was unhappy that his son didn’t want to work with him in a factory and the young lad headed for America to pursue an acting career.

Elba’s career soon picked up speed and his roles since then have been many and varied, one of the most memorable being Captain Augustine Muganza, in the super-depressing ‘Sometimes in April,’ a made-for-TV movie about the Rwandan genocide with a story written by Nigerian-British filmmaker Thomas Ikimi.