Idris Elba as a warlord in Beasts of No Nation |
Written
by Uzodinma Iweala, Beats of Nation –
which derives its title from a 1989 music album of late Afrobeat legend, Fela
Anikulapo Kuti – has been adapted for a film starring Idris Elba.
Produced by a
U.S-based group, Netflix Film, Beasts of No Nation, stars Elba as
an African warlord who takes young boys under his wing and trains them to be
his mercenary fighters,
The plot is set around Agu whose country’s
civil war experience in West Africa forces him to join a mercenary group of
fighters. Agu faces the trauma of death of his father, missing mother and
sister.
The film is heading to the Venice Film
Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada and scheduled for
theater
releases in the United States next month.
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