Set in ’70s Kingston and ’80s Hackney, “Yardie” centers on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen; 2013 Screen International’s Brits to Watch), 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 hasn’t 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).
Starring Aml Ameen (Netflix’s “Sense 8,” “The Maze Runner”), Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” “Pirates of the Caribbean”), Sheldon Shepherd, and Naomie Ackie (“Lady MacBeth”).
Based on the novel by Victor Headley.
Screenplay by Victor Headley, Brock Norman Brock, and Martin Stellman.
Directed by Idris Elba.
In theaters March
