IDRIS ELBA TO REUNITE WITH DAVID LEITCH FOR NETFLIX’S BANG!, AND MORE MOVIE NEWS
IDRIS ELBA REUNITES WITH HOBBS & SHAW DIRECTOR DAVID LEITCH FOR NETFLIX’S BANG! (Photo by Mike Marsland/Getty Images) The world is still waiting for casting news for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Superman reboot that was announced last year, but in 2019, Idris Elba did get to proclaim in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Fresh at 67%), “I’m black Superman.” It’s very unlikely that he’ll be returning to that role (for several reasons), but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a thematic Hobbs & Shaw follow-up for him. Idris Elba and Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch ( Deadpool 2 , Atomic Blonde ) are n ow both signed with Netflix for a spy thriller called Bang! based on the 2020 Dark Horse Comics series of the same name. Elba will star as a world famous super spy who is assigned to bring down a terrorist cult attempti...