Idris Elba’s crime movie Yardie gets its big UK premiere at the Sundance London festival tonight, and to coincide with the event, a brand new UK trailer for the film has just been released by STUDIOCANAL, along with some brand new images.
Set in ’70s Kingston and ’80s Hackney, Yardie centres 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).
We caught the film earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival (read our review here), and it really is a striking debut for Idris Elba as a feature director. The film will be released in UK cinemas later in the year.
Here’s the new trailer.
