Movie Geek - First Look At Chiwetel Ejiofor And Thandie Newton In 'Half Of A Yellow Sun' Film Adaptation

Don't know how i missed this. A couple of days ago the first image from the movie adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's impressive, Orange Prize-winning novel, Half Of A Yellow Sun, hit the net. 

I really enjoyed reading this book, and i'm sure the film will be good. If you aren't familiar with the story, heres the official synopsis: 

... weaving together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war. Olanna (Newton) and Kainene (Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover, the “revolutionary professor” Odenigbo (Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (Boyega) in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests, and surprises herself when she falls in love with Richard (Mawle) an English writer. Preoccupied by their romantic entanglements, and a betrayal between the sisters, the events of their life loom larger than politics. However, they become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war, in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra an independent republic, ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire country and the world. 

Half Of A Yellow Sun stars Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor (I stan!), John Boyega, Dominic Cooper, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle and Genevieve Nnaji, and Onyeka Onwenu. Nigerian songwriter Cobhams Asuquo and singer-songwriter Keziah Jones are also composing original music for the film. The film should come out next year. Nice.

source: indiewire via ontd