Should Idris Elba play Shaka Zulu???

[Silver Surfer]

@King Ming Mentioned this...and I thought it would make a good discussion.

There was a TV mini- series that ran in the 80's that I watched as a kid....very powerful

I also just found out there was some movie in 2001??

Anyway I think this would be a great power move for Netflix.....since Idris is a houshold name now and their first original movie starred him....this would be easy $$$$$$ and give Idris even more clout for playing challenging roles.

 

[MJ Truth]

Yeah right. Hollywood will make Shaka Zulu a blockbuster starring Christian Bale in the lead role.

 

[King Ming]

I think Edris Elba would be the best guy to do the role justice.

It was be dope if they would do it on a Game of Thrones scale and have a great cast of black actors.

It would just be Ialso loved the old Shaka sitcom...

 

[King Ming]

 

[Silver Surfer]

Yeah right. Hollywood will make Shaka Zulu a blockbuster starring Christian Bale in the lead role.

Beasts of no nation is critically acclaimed......and the only white person we saw was riding in a van and had no speaking lines.

Im also talking about about a TV series...Im thinking Netflix

 

[BXKingPin82]

Kevin Garnett!!

 

[Devilinurear]

??? to old unless it just a movie.

 

[Drew Wonder]

only if they keep the theme song

 

[AFRAM GLORY]

Lance Reddikk would be perfect for that role

 

[feelosofer]

I remember that Shaka Zulu series as a kid. That original actor was intense as fukk. Yea Idris would kill it, though.

 

[OVOnATuesday]

Kevin Garnett!!

this would be spot on

 

[King Ming]

Kevin Garnett!!

You spot on!

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Shaka Zulu was the miniseries that introduced me to the bigotry of how black women are presented versus how white women are presented. I got used to all the bare titty action -- so it was supremely jarring when white women were NOT bare tittied in the same production, even in situations where it would be completely natural for them to be bare tittied.

The woman who played Nandi was actually more fire than the man who played Shaka. Shaka's story was actually her story. Everything related back to Nandi's queenliness (if not nobility, because she was no saint -- she was a Roxelana type without Roxelana's 'powerful man's favorite ho' standing), and how her life affected her son's.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

??? to old unless it just a movie.

I have to agree with this one. It's too bad. Still, Idris is not the only African god with screen presence on earth.

 

[Claudex]

Don't think Idris would make the cut, the Zulus have more chiseled faces usually. And very cut bodies. Sure they're not the same nowadays, but the chiseled faces can still be found among the Zulus.