MUMBAI: The film financed by Red Crown Productions has roped in Elba, a prominent British actor who was recently seen in Pacific Rim as Stacker Pentecost. Cary Fukunaga will direct the adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala's bestselling novel.

Red Crown Productions' Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Riva Marker, Parliament of Owls' Fukunaga and Primary Productions' principal Amy Kaufman are producers while Daniel Crown and Bill Benenson will be executive producers.

The story is about a young boy called Agu who turns to mercenary fighters when his west African country is engulfed by a war. He has to face the death of his father and the disappearance of his mother as

sister while fighting with a mute man he makes a friend. He will play the lead role of commander.

Beasts of No Nation was packaged by WME. IM Global's specialty label Acclaim will do international sales at Toronto Film Festival. Fukunaga has previously directed Jane Eyre and is currently on HBO's series True Detective.

Elba is to be seen as Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, releasing this November. Both Elba and Fukunaga are repped by WME and managed by Anonymous content.