It made my list of 15 films that might receive some Academy Award consideration this year (read that post, published this morning, here); and now it just might become a Netflix title, as Deadline is reporting that the online streaming platform is nearing a deal to acquire Cary Fukunaga’s "Beasts of no Nation," which stars Idris Elba in an onscreen tale that’s based on the novel by Nigerian author, Uzodinma Iweala, which tells the story of a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
Elba plays the leader of the guerrilla group that the boy is forced to join, when civil war tears his family apart and militants kill his father. A complex tale, the…
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