David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film “Selma.”
Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in modern-day London and described as “a thriller that intertwines art, love and restitution.” DuVernay will direct from a screenplay by Jesse Quiñones, based on an original idea.
The project was announced on Tuesday during Canal+’s ORIGINAL+ presentation at the Olympic in Paris and marks the first feature film collaboration between DuVernay and Oyelowo since 2014’s “Selma.” In that film, Oyelowo portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. amid the 1965 Voting Rights March from Selma
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