On the heels of the immense commercial and critical success of Luther, Idris Elba has set up a new TV project – an adventure/thriller mini-series titled Ascension.
Elba has teamed with producer Vivek J. Tiwary and writer Warren Ellis for the new series which revolves around “the history and future of astronomy and mankind’s impulse for the stars,” says Deadline. The story is based on an original idea by Tiwary and his wife, Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary.
Elba, who will also act as exec producer, will play two leads in the project – the Egyptian polymath Imhotep in 3000 B.C., and a brilliant astronomer in the near future.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/idris-elba-will-play-imhotep-brilliant-astronomer-in-new-adventure-tv-miniseries-ascension (Note – published 2012)
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