Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose and Joseph Mawle star alongside newcomer John Boyega from Attack The Block. Ealing Metro handles international sales.

Principal photography has begun in Calabar, Nigeria, on the adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Orange Prize-winning novel that follows the divergent paths of glamorous, highly educated sisters who get swept up in the Nigerian Civil War.

The cast of Half Of A Yellow Sun includes Nigerian household names Onyeka Onwenu, Genevieve Nnaji and veteran Zack Orji.

tpia@:
is boyega supposed to be gboyega?

people cant pronounce the original name?

odumchi:

Maybe it's the same way that people can only pronounce Ibo instead of Igbo

But on a serious note, I think it might have been a typo.

odumchi:

Maybe it's the same way that people can only pronounce Ibo instead of Igbo

But on a serious note, I think it might have been a typo.

odumchi: Let's wait before we make any conclusions regarding the film. However, knowing how reputable a person Adichie is, one can only expect first-rate work.

I wish her success so that the unheard voices and unseen terrors of the late sixties can be broadcasted to the world. Nne jisie ike.

semid4lyfe:

It's correct and not a typo. The name is actually BOYEGA.

He played the lead role of Moses in the 2011 British teen sci-fi action film Attack the Block. . .and he did v. well. It got him some award nominations also.

Meanwhile, make I quick go read the book so I can measure the film against it when it comes out.

vizion:

In my experience, not film has ever measured up to half of the book.

pcicero: I did some background research for the movie and I can only pray that it turns out well. The Cross Rivers state government has been very supportive as well.

mbulela: there will be nothing special about the movie.