Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is set to play the villain in the upcoming 24th official James Bond movie.
The flick to be directed by Sam Mendes is the sequel to ‘Skyfall’, the last Bond movie featuring Daniel Craig and shot in 2012.
Reports monitored on Monday indicated that the actor who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years a Slave’ has already been picked for the bad guy role in the film.
Ejiofor, whose recent performances on the big screen and on stage have cemented him among Britain’s acting elite, would join Daniel Craig as Bond, Ralph Fiennes as M, Naomi Harris as Moneypenny; and Ben Whishaw as Q. Production of the 24th film, which is scheduled to be released on 6 November 2015, is due to start this summer.
Ejiofor was born into a Nigerian family in south-east London and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He played a villain early on in his career with the part of The Operative in the 2005 film ‘Serenity.’
He has also had leading roles in ‘Dirty Pretty Things’, ‘Children of Men’ and ‘Four Brothers.’ He is currently filming ‘Z for Zachariah’, an American sci-fi film, and ‘Triple Nine’, in which he plays a cop alongside Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson and Casey Affleck.
He played Odenigbo in the movie adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ set to open soon in Nigerian cinemas.
