Idris Elba has appeared in several projects dealing with African history and issues, including Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom and Beasts Of No Nation. He may not end up in front of the camera for the latest TV drama Brazza, but he's helping to get it made.
Filmmaker Paul Viragh, the writer behind Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, is on script duty for this one, which is set in the capital city of the Congo. A family's blood feud threatens the country's uneasy truce, and will have ramifications for the dark underworld of the city.
“I am so proud to be working on this African-set drama and to introduce a global audience to a world and culture that resonates so vibrantly with me,” says Elba, whose Green Door Pictures will produce alongside Studiocanal's Tandem Productions and Havas Media's Save Ferris Entertainment. It's still early days for the project, but it'll be offered for sale to various channels around the world soon.
As for his work on screen, Elba is playing Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower, which will arrive on 17 February next year. He'll follow that with Thor: Ragnarok on 27 October. And somewhere in between the two should be another TV project, Guerrilla, which he's both producing and starring in.