Idris Elba to star in 'Beasts of No Nation'

Actor Idris Elba is all set to play the lead in "Beasts of No Nation", a big-screen adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala's bestselling novel.

The 40-year-old actor will play a military commander in the film directed by Cary Fukunaga, reported Telegraph online.

The film chronicles the journey of Agu, a young boy who, caught in the middle of civil war in his West African country, is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters.

Haunted by the murder of his father, Agu befriends a mute boy named Strika and together they face the traumas of war: rape, death, looting and starvation.
 

Elba will also act as a producer on the film.