{"id":53330,"date":"2024-10-11T07:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/weve-better-actors-bob-manuel-udokwu-on-idris-elba-playing-lead-in-things-fall-apart-series-tv-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T07:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:05:01","slug":"weve-better-actors-bob-manuel-udokwu-on-idris-elba-playing-lead-in-things-fall-apart-series-tv-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/weve-better-actors-bob-manuel-udokwu-on-idris-elba-playing-lead-in-things-fall-apart-series-tv-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve better actors \u2013 Bob-Manuel Udokwu on Idris Elba playing lead in \u2018Things Fall Apart\u2019 series TV Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nollywood veteran, Bob-Manuel Udokwu has reacted to the report that Hollywood actor, Idris Elba will star as the lead character, \u201cOkonkwo\u201d in a television adaptation of Chinua Achebe\u2019s seminal novel \u2018Things Fall Apart.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Variety recently reported that the series is currently in development at A24, with Elba Elba and Gina Carter serving as executive producers under their 22Summers banner.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in an interview with Channels TV, Udokwu said he has nothing against Elba playing the lead role but insisted that Nigeria has top-class actors who can play the role better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this conversation about Idris Elba being cast to play Okonkwo in Hollywood\u2019s make of Things Fall Apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have anything against that as an actor but I think we have top-class actors in Nigeria who can play that role even better, knowing where the story is coming from,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, mentioned that the ongoing collaboration between Nollywood and other movie industries is a positive development.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that he is currently working on a movie that features actors from Bollywood and Hollywood.<br \/>\n\u2018Things Fall Apart\u2019 is the first in Achebe\u2019s celebrated African Trilogy, followed by No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God.<\/p>\n<p>Previous adaptations have included a film and a miniseries, the latter starring Pete Edochie as Okonkwo.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve better actors \u2013 Bob-Manuel Udokwu on Idris Elba playing lead in \u2018Things Fall Apart\u2019 series TV Adaptation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood veteran, Bob-Manuel Udokwu has reacted to the report that Hollywood actor, Idris Elba will star as the lead character,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25232,4,25233,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bob-manuel-udokwu","category-entertainment","category-idris-elba","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}