Idris Elba makes his directorial debut with Yardie, a new crime thriller that has been doing the rounds at film festivals across the world. The film is poised to hit theaters later this year and now Studio Canal UK has released the first trailer to give us a taste of what to expect from the new film.
Wearing its influences on its sleeve, Yardie pulls from a pantheon of great crime films from Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas to City Of God. Check out the teaser trailer for Idris Elba’s Yardie for yourself:
Set in ’70s Kingston and ’80s Hackney, Yardie centers on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he’s not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow “the righteous path”, he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution – a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham).
Check out the poster for the film as well:
Yardie hits theaters sometime this year, but no specific release date has been announced.
Images: Studio Canal UK
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