Idris Elba News

'The Wire' star Idris Elba has joined the cast of the upcoming film version of Marvel Comics' Norse God adventure 'Thor'. The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog says that Elba will play Heimdall, the guardian of Asgard.

This week's Ketchup includes casting news and rumors for Thor , Spider-Man 4 , The Hobbit and Guardians of Ga'hoole , new sequels in the Jackass and Underworld franchises and potential new movies for Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy.

The casting news for Kenneth Branagh's Thor just keeps on coming. Recently we reported on the casting of The Warriors Three , and tonight we've learned that Idris Elba has joined the cast as Heimdell, "the guardian of Asgard, he stands on the BiFrost Bridge ready to defend the city from intruders." I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by this ...

Who knew we'd see him back on TV -- in a comedy? Video View a slide show We loved all five seasons of "The Wire" at Salon.

Paul McGann has joined the cast of BBC One thriller Luther . The series, which was created by Spooks writer Neil Cross, will be fronted by former The Wire star Idris Elba.

Stringer Bell is confused. "Whaddaya mean The Wire's not feminist?" The Wire , the HBO series that ran for five seasons, will apparently live on, despite its shelf life, in a class at Harvard .

In the second of Radio 1's Story of the Noughties, Nick Grimshaw takes us back to the year 2001 - the music, the people, the events.

Love and Marriage: Jessica Biel has signed on to star in and produce Fucking Engaged , which is, as you may have guessed, a raunchy comedy.

"The blog your favorite blogger reads...." Tuesday, October 27, 2009 SalaamRemi.com presents CJ & DJ Driis - The Package mixtape If you have to ask who Salaam Remi is, stop reading this site now! DJ Driis is British actor, Idris Elba best know for playing Stringer Bell on The Wire who is apparently also pretty serious about his DJ and music hustle.

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Hey, Matt Dillon! And Idris Elba! Anda trailer that looks like it was made from other trailers' left-overs. Better luck next time, Michael Ealy, T.I., Hayden Christensen, Zoe Saldana, Jay Hernandez, and Paul Walker.

Idris Elba, star of The Wire, to play detective for BBC ] His new BBC One character, John Luther, is a "near-genius" murder squad detective who may have more in common with Bell than Inspector Morse and other traditional TV sleuths.

The Wire star Idris Elba has signed up to feature in BBC One's new series Luther .

Watching The Wire with the subtitles on is pointless and turns the show from a drama into a "comedy", according to one of the show's writers.

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MICHAEL JACKSON's mother is fighting against the late superstar's siblings' wishes to bury the King of Pop at his Neverland Ranch, insisting her son never planned to return to the California estate he abandoned in 2005.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Elba refused to ask Beyonce for help SHOWBIZ THE WIRE star IDRIS ELBA refused to ask his OBSESSED co-star BEYONCE for help launching his music career.

Idris Elba has delighted some of his adoring fans by posting a picture of himself on the internet wearing boxers and not much else.

After a brief break to watch season four of Weeds last week, Jane After Dark is back with The Wire .

The Blazers recently struck out on their quest to lure free agent forward Hedo Turkoglu to town.