He ’s faced the antiblack horrors of suburbia inGet Out , and weathered Wakanda ’s superpowered royal strife inBlack Panther . Oscar campaigner Daniel Kaluuyanext elaborate his genre filmography with an intriguing Modern task for Netflix , based on a buzzed - about YA fantasy novel by debut author Femi Fadugba .
The book , The Upper World , is n’t even out yet , but it ’s the first in a trilogy , which means if the pic ’s a smash , there ’ll be peck of adopt - up source cloth . And the assumption of the Netflix moving-picture show certainly sound intriguing , according to Variety : “ Esso is caught in a mortal feud and on the verge of expulsion when he realizes he has an unexpected endowment : access to a creation where he can see glimpses of the past times and the futurity . A generation away , Rhia is walking to football practice in 2035 , unaware that the mysterious stranger she ’s about to meet desperately call for her help to avert a bullet kindle 15 years ago . ”
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Daniel Kaluuya attends the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 9 March 2025 in New York City.Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Huffington Post (Getty Images)
Kaluuya is set to play the talented Esso , and is also a producer on the project . It ’s interesting to observe that Fadugba is a physicist in addition to being a fabrication writer , and his own unique background informs The Upper World ’s story . In a statement shared with Variety , the generator remarked that “ throughout my life story , I ’ve dwell in places like Kigali , Somerset , Oxford , and Philadelphia , which has always made me wonder : how do I reconcile these contrast environments I grew up in with each other ? … Then one day , get along a mad realization — that I could combine the story of a kid from South London with the physics of metre change of location . And perhaps even make it grapple enough that the nerds , the hustlers , the jocks ( and the relief of us in between ) would all want to scan it . ”
Hopefully , they ’ll all want to watch it , too . So far there ’s no word on who might target the adaptation or co - star with Kaluuya , but we ’ll play you more on The Upper World as and when we know it .
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